Organizational Culture In The Age Of Burnout: What Every Leader Should Know

If you’re in a management or leadership position, you’ve likely experienced this: You bring on a young and promising new hire to drive productivity, and boy, do they deliver. They take pride in their work, care about the mission and their output is off the charts. It’s an increase in effort that you haven’t seen in a long time, and you are thrilled. In your mind, you’ve struck gold.

However, as time passes, the newbie’s attitude starts to shift. They are easily irritated, take days to answer emails, their output drops, they’re noticeably less engaged in team meetings and they’re no longer the energetic racehorse you hired. Eventually, after only a couple of years (or less), they jump ship.

What I’ve just described is known as the “burnout arc.” Research indicates that in our increasingly fast-paced work environment, with ever-rising revenue goals, always-on technology and ever-increasing workloads, our talented employees are burning out at alarmingly high rates. So much so that Business Insider recently reported the economic fallout from the burnout epidemic to be over $300 billion globally.

Read Gregg’s Full Article Here on the Forbes Coaches Council.