S7 E21-24 Strategies to Avoid Employee Burnout- 'Engaging Your People for Success'- Lisa Askwith

10/11/2021

S7 E21-24. (Engaging Your People for Success) Strategies to Avoid Employee Burnout

Lisa Askwith- Engaging Your People for Success

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Strategies to Avoid Employee Burnout- 4 Part series
INTRODUCTION- Part 1, Ep21- The Great Resignation vs Employee Burnout- How to minimise it in 3 steps

By the end of this series you will have a list of key ways in which you can develop your business with your employees needs in mind, helping to minimise Burnout and maximise staff retention, engagement and long term success. This will give you back so much more than numbers, it will improve your culture, develop your people, and help build your business for the future. Let me show you how.

Part 1-‘The Great Resignation vs Employee Burnout- how to minimise it in 3 steps’. You can also listen to parts 2, 3 and 4 to complete the series.
Part 2- ‘Employee Burnout and The Future of Work’- Its more than just a new workplace
Part 3- Employee Wellness to minimise Employee Burnout- the key steps you are probably missing
Part 4- Executive Loneliness and Burnout- Your leaders are people too

40% of your people are thinking of leaving in the next 3-6months. This is an unprecedented figure.

Have you reviewed your business in the context of what you people actually want?

The new generations of workers are value focussed. Does your current workplace recognise this? Have you forgotten the people and the impact on them and only focused on the bottom line. Have you asked your people what they want?

3 steps to success

Prioritise- People can be part of your strategy, and should be!

Authorise- Your leadership teams need to endorse a new focus
You need the right leadership team

Monetise- Successfully engaging your People will give back to your bottomline in ways you have not recognised previously.

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Most businesses and leaders need help to really see this key area with ‘fresh eyes’. If you have reached this point do contact me directly at lisa@apexbrs.com for a free no obligation discussion of just where you are and how we may be able to help.

Part 2 (EP 22)- Employee Burnout and The Future of Work- Its more than just a new workplace

You need to embrace the future of work and the rapid change of pace and not give up. When you can recognise the below key areas and find ways to embrace them,only then will you reduce employee burnout and build a company for the future;

The Gig economy. Contract workers
Gen Y and the millennials beyond- focused on finding something that fits culturally with their beliefs and having a high willingness to change roles if they don’t.
Value- to give and to receive
Workplace becoming an experience centre
Where a person lives now means more than the role
The death of the long term job
Agility
WFH
Remote workforces
AI

If your business is not already recognizing and finding ways of working with these key changes then you will be losing great staff. To help you focus on this big area there are 4 key healthy habits to work with when you are developing your strategy and culture.

The 5 key focus points to keep you ahead of the future of work;

Value creation
Skill development
Workplace ethics
Leadership ability
Commit to having difficult conversations

This is the piece of the puzzle that most businesses and leaders need help with. If you have reached this point do contact me directly at lisa@apexbrs.com for a free no obligation discussion of just where you are and how we may be able to help.

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Part 3 (EP23) Employee Wellness to minimise Employee Burnout- the key steps you are probably missing

Your people really have all of the answers, but have you accessed them. Are you willing to involve your people in the solutions? If not, you will fail, and employee burnout will continue to be a problem in your business.

     1. Have you asked your People what they want?
     2. Give workers more control over how they do their work.
     3. Allow employees more flexibility about when and where they work.
     4. Increase the stability of workers’ schedules.
     5. Ensure front line is connected to the entire business
     6. Provide employees with opportunities to identify and solve workplace problems.
     7. Keep your organization adequately staffed, so workloads are reasonable.
     8. Encourage managers in your organization to support employees’ personal needs.
     9. Take steps to foster a sense of social belonging among employees.

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If you would like more information on any of these key topics I can be reached at lisa@apexbrs.com, where you can book a free discovery call

Part 4 (EP24) Executive Loneliness- Your Leaders are people too

You need to focus on all of your people if you want to minimise burnout in your teams. That means you need to recognise that your leaders will also need support to prevent their burnout. Too often this is overlooked. Leading to not only disengaged leaders, but bad habits and cultures being established throughout the business. Look to your leaders and ensure they are supported too.

In order to really understand this, you need to go to your people. Your leaders can explain what is happening, you just need to listen and develop a way forward with them. The best way to understand the situation is from experience, Nick Jonsson produced the book Executive Loneliness which documents his journey through burnout. It is a very useful survival guide and will help establish 5 key principles you can use in your business to ensure your leaders don't burnout.

The 5 Pathways to Overcoming Isolation,
Stress, Anxiety & Depression in the Modern Business World
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

THe 5 steps to avoid Burnout, or to get to recovery

1. Taking Stock
2. Asking for Help
3. Getting Healthy
4. Nurturing Healthy Relationships
5. Finding Your Purpose

Understanding how you can incorporate these key needs and drivers into your workplace policies, strategies, programs and behaviours is key to reducing and removing burnout.

You can read the entire book at

Executive Loneliness by Nick Jonsson #1 International Best Seller (executivelonelinessbook.com)

Tags; strategy and culture, aligning culture and strategy, strategy implementation, strategy vs culture, culture and strategy, business strategy, strategic planning, strategy software, humantelligence alignment, organizational culture, cultural change, strategy cascade, strategy, culture, align team goals, objectives, technology, people

Tip- Exceptional leadership is the glue that will hold all of this together- without it you will not achieve the levels you desire.

This is the piece of the puzzle that most businesses and leaders need help with. If you have reached this point do contact me directly at lisa@apexbrs.com for a free no obligation discussion of just where you are and how we may be able to help.

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Written by Lisa Askwith

Director of ApexBRS | ApexBRS, Regional Director of See Global Media, Chair of EGN Singapore, and Associate Professor Cambridge Corporate University | At the Age of Change, providing the HR component of the Global Executive MBA and BBA. Lisa has worked for some of the largest companies in the world and successfully led restructures and change management programs in order to improve the bottom line through engaging the people for success, while developing exceptional leaders who can make a positive impact on Culture and long term business sustainability.

You can connect with Lisa on any of her platforms