{"id":31950,"date":"2021-09-20T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinode.com\/?p=31950"},"modified":"2021-09-20T11:34:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T11:34:55","slug":"3-signs-you-are-burning-your-people-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinode.com\/en\/blog\/skills-management-en\/3-signs-you-are-burning-your-people-out\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Signs You Are Burning Your People Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a leader, you feel responsible for your people\u2019s job satisfaction and general well-being. Yet, despite your best intentions, something keeps going south or feeling wrong, leaving you wondering why can\u2019t people just do as you say and take care of themselves.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe tried our best – you know the rest.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breaking news: people do as we do – not as we say. So, the best intentions are not enough. You need to follow your own advice, along with being brutally honest with yourself about which advice actually matter to you, your employees, and your business results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are three good-intention stories I hear leaders tell themselves, hurting the sustainability of their performance as individuals, teams, and businesses. And to focus on the constructive and practical dialogue, the stories are followed by some suggestions on how you can reframe them to ensure a long-term success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story: I don\u2019t want to overload my people, so I\u2019ll do it myself<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Problem:<\/strong> You want your people to rest and recharge, yet there is always more work to be done. It might seem smart and caring of you to take on the extra tasks and work long hours for the sake of offloading your people, but by doing so you are digging yourself a hole. With your actions, you are showing your employees it\u2019s not OK to rest because there is more to do. When you don\u2019t give yourself permission to check out and rest, you take away the factual permission for your employees to do so even if your words say the opposite and your intentions are the purest ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solution:<\/strong> Start taking proper rest yourself. Science<\/a> is clear on that: small breaks often are huge contributors to one\u2019s improved productivity, better health, and the sense of life satisfaction. So you\u2019d better commit to taking those real breaks because all the employee eyeballs are on you as a leader, and you pave the others\u2019 way to well-being and productivity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does it mean in practice?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n