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Episode 29/8 November 2023/17 min/The High Performance Leader

How managers can break burnout habits for high performance

Burnout habits in managers lead to long term issues. Learn how to identify and change them for sustained high performance in your team.

How can managers recognise and change habits that cause burnout in their teams?

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Burnout habits in managers and teams often go unnoticed until performance suffers. This episode explores how ingrained behaviours like workaholism, overcommitment, and micromanagement fuel burnout, and provides practical steps for leaders to identify and change these patterns for lasting high performance.

What you will learn

  • Understand the true impact of burnout on managers and organisations
  • Recognise how specific habits contribute to burnout in teams
  • Reframe workaholism, overcommitment, and micromanagement for high performance
  • Apply a four step process to change burnout inducing habits

Episode highlights

  • (1:48) What is burnout and its impact on individuals and organisations
  • (4:56) The role of habits in burnout and the need for change
  • (9:09) Diving deeper into workaholism, overcommitment, micromanagement, and trust issues
  • (11:19) Recognising and reframing habits for high performance
  • (13:49) Four step process for changing habits
  • (15:37) How to get help mapping out your habits and finding solutions

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