Overcoming burnout
MCBB4
Burnout is a debilitating condition that affects millions of people in a more or less severe way. In 2019, the WHO defined burnout as the great epidemic of the 21st century and added it to its ICD-11 list, i.e. its official list of diseases. The American Psychological Association estimates that over 500 billion dollars are drained from the US economy due to workplace stress and 550 million work days are lost each year because of it.
In the Netherlands, the cost of absenteeism associated with stress at work alone reached ?3.1 billion per year (2018). In 2019, more than 1.5 billion euros were paid out by the Belgian state in long-term disability benefits due to depression or burn-out. Burn-out and depression account for a quarter (24.14%) of long-term incapacity for employees and 17.23% of long-term incapacity for the self-employed.
As a Harvard Business Review article stated “burnout is about your workplace, not your people”. Indeed, this condition of frailty that affects so many people and has such a negative impact on the productivity of organisations cannot be solved simply by helping the individuals who suffer from it in a more or less mild way, but by intervening in the environmental factors that are behind it.
That’s why the way we approach the problem of work-related stress doesn’t just focus on strategies to overcome it in individual terms: we look within the organisation for the problems that can cause it and put forward strategies to solve them.
Among the different topics in our programme we pay particular attention to the following:
Die Art und Weise unserer Arbeit
Individuen im Kontext
We focus on organisations and people in the framework of their careers. We follow a holistic approach, bring together state-of-the-art management knowledge with behaviour, perceptions and emotions. No lasting result will be achieved otherwise.
Understand uniqueness
While there are common patterns in the way individuals and businesses operate, no change process can work without taking into account what sets them apart. That?s why we tailor our programmes to each client?s context beforehand. ?????
Keine Geister der Lampe
We don’t believe in the coach who has answers for everything. Our programmes are crafted by a team of people from different areas, experiences and sensibilities.
Full flexibility
Most of our programmes can be delivered in a variety of formats: online, on-site and hybrid. They are available for individuals or teams. Content and duration can also be adjusted as needed.
Immersive learning
We want to unleash the learner’s ability to 100% engage in challenges that put him in a world where things happen and have consequences. Gamification, real-time interactions, dynamic self-assessment are some of the tools we use.
Delivery
The way we deliver our programmes is tailored to each client’s request: individually, for a specific team or for those responsible for the organisation, covering different areas. A mixed scheme is also possible, where part is group-centred and part person-centred. The contents are adjusted accordingly.
Über das LfA
We are committed to ensuring that our assessment, training and consultancy services have a tangible and lasting effect on the transformation of people and organisations. We put the real-life interaction between these two parties at the centre of our work.
Das Erlernen neuer Konzepte und Ideen oder das Verstehen des persönlichen Kontexts ist nur der Anfang der Reise. Das Wichtigste ist, dass dieser erste Schritt zu einer wirksamen Handlung für Veränderungen führen kann, sowohl individuell als auch in der Gruppe. Am Ende des gesamten Prozesses sollten Automatismen entstehen, damit jeder Einzelne in der Lage ist, andere zu führen oder zumindest eine positive Wirkung auf sein Team auszuüben.
Unsere Methode konzentriert sich auf den kritischsten und energieintensivsten Teil: die systematische Anwendung des Gelernten in der alltäglichen Realität, wobei eine Rückkehr zu alten Praktiken vermieden wird. Unser Ziel ist es, die Leistung jedes Einzelnen zu steigern und sein Leistungsniveau und seine Zufriedenheit zu erhöhen.
Wenn Menschen nicht in der Lage sind, auf der Werkstatt- oder Büroetage die Werkzeuge und Verfahren ordnungsgemäß zu nutzen, um ihre Aufgaben effektiv zu erledigen, werden sie nicht in der Lage sein, Burnout und Verlust der Konzentration zu vermeiden. Alles, was sie gelernt haben, wird nutzlos gewesen sein.
Der dreistufige Ansatz
In der entscheidenden Phase der Umsetzung definieren wir gemeinsam mit dem Team des Kunden Ziele, die erreicht werden sollen, und überwachen deren Ausführung. Im Falle von Abweichungen schlagen wir Korrekturmaßnahmen vor. Nach der Beratungs- und Schulungsphase lassen wir unsere Kunden nicht allein: Wir versuchen, ihren Fortschritt zu unterstützen und ihnen dabei zu helfen, die notwendigen Verfahren zur Bewertung ihrer Leistung auf informierte und kritische Weise zu etablieren.
Our commitment on achieving practical results from our work is reflected in this service that we provide free of charge to our business clients: a 6-month period in which we help them define and monitor their OKRs*.
- This offer is only available in selected programmes. Contact us for more information.
Topics overview
1 Timely signalling of stressors. Burnout can be prevented and even stopped if one understands the signs that generate it. Personal and environmental factors that can lead to its appearance.
2 Dealing with the power. Raising motivation and engagement with the team as far as possible, without losing sight of one’s own limits. Management of personal emotions and beliefs. Assertive communication.
3 Building resilience. Developing a positive outlook. Increasing the ability to deal with change and the unexpected. Engage in supportive sharing with co-workers. The 4P method. The importance of the lifestyle factor.
4 Improving the workplace. Not all stressors that arise in the workplace depend only on your organisation or your team. There are things you can do for yourself to reduce the likelihood of creating burnout situations. We will look in this topic at some of the strategies and steps you can take.
5 The organisation. Burnout is an individual condition that is generated or at the very least amplified by the organisation in which the worker is embedded. Thus, in this topic we address what the company or service should do to prevent it from appearing or increasing. We focus among others on the topic of leadership, information access and management, planning, team building, fair and transparent evaluation of employees and the importance of MBWA.
6 Healing and preventing. In this section we will look in detail at measures that help treat and prevent burnout: the healthy habits to develop, interaction between work and personal life, relaxation techniques such as mindfulness and JPMR.
Zielpublikum
Die Erleichterer
Mitch Lemos
CEO at Casual Vision. Business developer. In charge of more than 50M dollars of investments in very diversified areas. Project manager. Lecturer.
Emma Becker
Graduated from RWTH Aachen University. Emma has worked as psychologist for over 20 years, first in HR departments and then as a coach.
Antonio Norton
Nearly 15 years of experience in psychotherapy, emotion focused therapy and EMDR.
He has been helping people with burnout, anxiety, among other psychological issues.
This is the team in charge of developing the contents of this programme. Robert Green is the coordinator and will be your interlocutor for the customisation of the modules, delivery format and workload definition. Press the button below for any question you want to ask.
The process*
- The above outline refers to the extended version of the programme. It does not apply to the compact version, if available.