{"id":3499,"date":"2025-04-03T15:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T15:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aomtodayprod.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=3499"},"modified":"2025-07-09T15:15:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:15:32","slug":"tips-for-managers-to-avoid-team-burnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aom.org\/today\/tips-for-managers-to-avoid-team-burnout\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Managers to Avoid Team Burnout"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Daniel Butcher<\/a><\/p>\n

Managers should be on the lookout for signs of burnout in their team members, and a sudden decline in work performance, missed deadlines, or increased errors could be an indication that an employee needs help. Burnout leads to reduced productivity and increased turnover, which is expensive for organizations and causes headaches for managers.<\/p>\n

Academy of Management Scholar Sean Martin<\/a> of the University of Virginia said there\u2019s evidence that many people\u2019s views of the workplace are pretty bleak right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw some statistics indicating a lot of folks are feeling a high level of burnout\u2014two-thirds of people would rather get a new boss than a pay raise; they\u2019re just tired of dealing with their boss,\u201d Martin said. \u201cI recently saw another poll that said more than half of people would trust a stranger more than their boss.\u201d<\/p>\n

Worker stress has remained at record high levels since the pandemic, with 52% of employees in the U.S. and Canada reporting that they experienced a significant amount of stress on the previous day, according to Gallup. Managers who want to help avoid or mitigate burnout on their team need to realize that people are dealing with stressors both in and out of work and, in response, demonstrate flexibility and empathy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of things that are going on in someone\u2019s life like managing family dynamics, extracurriculars, maybe they have care duties for young kids or older parents, so burnout is likely to be present in some form on your team,\u201d Martin said. \u201cIf that\u2019s the case, recognize that it\u2019s not always just because of what\u2019s going on at work, although it certainly could be.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could either be the kinds of leaders who say, \u2018I don’t care\u2014this is work\u2014check all of that stuff at the door and do your job, \u2019or we could say, \u2018I want to deal with a whole person and be the kind of leader that, when people are finished working with me, they view their time with me as time well spent and believe that I had a positive impact on their life and their career,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to be that, then you have to recognize that burnout is an ever-present threat, and when you see people starting to experience it and start seeing the telltale signs of stress, such as retreating into oneself and performance issues in terms of objective measurables, be willing to ask, \u2018What can I do? How can I help? \u2019to start mitigating the burnout that people can feel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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