> For example, only 1 percent of workers have severe burnout symptoms with a supportive supervisor. With a strictly controlling, toxic supervisor, the figure is 38 percent.
And yet
> The same study shows that no more than a third of executives in the Belgian labor market adopt a supportive leadership style.
But somehow we won’t even remotely see the same zeal to deal with this problem as with the long term unemployed, despite this being a much bigger issue with a huge impact on our economy
> In addition to influencing burnout risk, leadership style also determines up to 24 percent of how well employees perform. For example, leadership style determines 16 percent of innovative behavior, 21 percent of motivation and 24 percent of an employee’s productivity, regardless of gender, position or experience.
In other news, excessive rainfall causes floods.
Is anyone actually surprised about the result of this research?
This is coming from someone who never had a burnout, never had someone around me (family, friends or collegues) who ever had a burnout.
<yawn>
Yeah right.
The best management style is the one that provides the most profit. Management effort is to be geared towards achieving more shareholder value.
All employees need to do is deliver “value”. The biggest possible value at the lowest possible cost.
Not every horse is a racehorse.
Same in any workplace.
If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
Replacing an employee that doesn’t pull her/his weight, may well be cheaper than spending effort/time to make the working environment for existing employees more pleasant.
And then you have my manager, who is “worried” about me because having ADHD and axiety looks like symptoms of a burnout. Sigh… he means well.
I told him sometimes I prefer sending people a text message instead of talking to them face to face and he told me that he didn’t want me to burn out but like, bro. I’m just not very social. I cope.
Previous toxic boss pushed my team to leave. 4/5 went in burnout. Took a long time to recover from that.
And believe me, as a manager this can be equally frustrating and exhausting.
In my team 2/5 members have left in the past 6 months largely due to the same project manager being utterly incompetent at actually managing anything. I try to shield the team from her as much as possible, but there’s only so much I can do before someone higher up the food chain overrides me.
I once had a direct manager drag me out in the noisy workshop so he could start shouting at me… I was young an naive!
“Zon komt op in Oosten”
My previous manager was a micromanager that is not good in communication. Since he has a set of high standards towards the work and our effort is not good enough he tends to do everything by himself. I think he is the one having the burnout by taking too much on his plate. I only lasted 6 months in that role because of his micromanaging “skills”.
Unfortunately, a lot of companies are still just paying lip service to burn out prevention. Loads of ‘awareness trainings’ and ‘speaking out’, but when push comes to shove it’s ‘I know you’re overloaded, but I got this super duper important thing …’
Ik vraag me toch af wat met de mindset is gebeurd.
Als ik dit soort kwesties voorleg aan mijn ouders/grootouders krijg ik telkens dezelfde reactie:
‘Wat zijn de mensen toch week geworden.’
Durven mensen zich tegenwoordig niet meer te onttrekken uit een situatie die hen duidelijk niet de voldoening geeft die ze zoeken? Of is dat net het probleem? Zoekt men te veel voldoening in de dagdagelijkse zaken?
Steve Van den Kerkhof enters the chat: I am demanding, it is only normal!
yeah but tbh a good manager does not also always prevent you from burning out.
Workshop’ke mindfulness en we kunnen er weer tegenaan /s
Coming from a toxic work environment from my last job, I’m a year later still suffering from my burnout.
No shit. It’s almost like people should learn the basics of people management before being promoted up to people leader.
Unfortunately that doesn’t happen in every company
My solution on keeping myself sane: emulate what management does, care less and bullshit your way out of situations.
Being a caring and honest individual is a curse in today’s society.
I suffered a burnout in my previous job. Toxic little family company with a micromanaging boss who didn’t trust the employees that weren’t his family, paid shit money, but still expected us to work as if we all owned the company.
I changed jobs and I couldn’t have got a better manager. I feel supported by her, she works her ass off, but will still find time to guide you if you need help. She is against us working after hours (with the exception of the rare emergency IF it’s in our power to even change anything), because “no one pays you for that, you only pay with your health”
If I make a serious mistake I always report it to her and she’s never angry. She says “did the world collapse? No, so let’s just move forward” and then helps me go over it to see what I could do better next time.
One time a local sales manager went behind my back to complain to her about an issue with me, instead of giving his support to find a solution and she ripped him a new one.
I 100% feel supported by my manager. But I do work for an international company and she’s not belgian.
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> For example, only 1 percent of workers have severe burnout symptoms with a supportive supervisor. With a strictly controlling, toxic supervisor, the figure is 38 percent.
And yet
> The same study shows that no more than a third of executives in the Belgian labor market adopt a supportive leadership style.
But somehow we won’t even remotely see the same zeal to deal with this problem as with the long term unemployed, despite this being a much bigger issue with a huge impact on our economy
> In addition to influencing burnout risk, leadership style also determines up to 24 percent of how well employees perform. For example, leadership style determines 16 percent of innovative behavior, 21 percent of motivation and 24 percent of an employee’s productivity, regardless of gender, position or experience.
In other news, excessive rainfall causes floods.
Is anyone actually surprised about the result of this research?
This is coming from someone who never had a burnout, never had someone around me (family, friends or collegues) who ever had a burnout.
<yawn>
Yeah right.
The best management style is the one that provides the most profit. Management effort is to be geared towards achieving more shareholder value.
All employees need to do is deliver “value”. The biggest possible value at the lowest possible cost.
Not every horse is a racehorse.
Same in any workplace.
If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
Replacing an employee that doesn’t pull her/his weight, may well be cheaper than spending effort/time to make the working environment for existing employees more pleasant.
And then you have my manager, who is “worried” about me because having ADHD and axiety looks like symptoms of a burnout. Sigh… he means well.
I told him sometimes I prefer sending people a text message instead of talking to them face to face and he told me that he didn’t want me to burn out but like, bro. I’m just not very social. I cope.
Previous toxic boss pushed my team to leave. 4/5 went in burnout. Took a long time to recover from that.
And believe me, as a manager this can be equally frustrating and exhausting.
In my team 2/5 members have left in the past 6 months largely due to the same project manager being utterly incompetent at actually managing anything. I try to shield the team from her as much as possible, but there’s only so much I can do before someone higher up the food chain overrides me.
I once had a direct manager drag me out in the noisy workshop so he could start shouting at me… I was young an naive!
“Zon komt op in Oosten”
My previous manager was a micromanager that is not good in communication. Since he has a set of high standards towards the work and our effort is not good enough he tends to do everything by himself. I think he is the one having the burnout by taking too much on his plate. I only lasted 6 months in that role because of his micromanaging “skills”.
Unfortunately, a lot of companies are still just paying lip service to burn out prevention. Loads of ‘awareness trainings’ and ‘speaking out’, but when push comes to shove it’s ‘I know you’re overloaded, but I got this super duper important thing …’
Ik vraag me toch af wat met de mindset is gebeurd.
Als ik dit soort kwesties voorleg aan mijn ouders/grootouders krijg ik telkens dezelfde reactie:
‘Wat zijn de mensen toch week geworden.’
Durven mensen zich tegenwoordig niet meer te onttrekken uit een situatie die hen duidelijk niet de voldoening geeft die ze zoeken? Of is dat net het probleem? Zoekt men te veel voldoening in de dagdagelijkse zaken?
Steve Van den Kerkhof enters the chat: I am demanding, it is only normal!
yeah but tbh a good manager does not also always prevent you from burning out.
Workshop’ke mindfulness en we kunnen er weer tegenaan /s
Coming from a toxic work environment from my last job, I’m a year later still suffering from my burnout.
No shit. It’s almost like people should learn the basics of people management before being promoted up to people leader.
Unfortunately that doesn’t happen in every company
My solution on keeping myself sane: emulate what management does, care less and bullshit your way out of situations.
Being a caring and honest individual is a curse in today’s society.
I suffered a burnout in my previous job. Toxic little family company with a micromanaging boss who didn’t trust the employees that weren’t his family, paid shit money, but still expected us to work as if we all owned the company.
I changed jobs and I couldn’t have got a better manager. I feel supported by her, she works her ass off, but will still find time to guide you if you need help. She is against us working after hours (with the exception of the rare emergency IF it’s in our power to even change anything), because “no one pays you for that, you only pay with your health”
If I make a serious mistake I always report it to her and she’s never angry. She says “did the world collapse? No, so let’s just move forward” and then helps me go over it to see what I could do better next time.
One time a local sales manager went behind my back to complain to her about an issue with me, instead of giving his support to find a solution and she ripped him a new one.
I 100% feel supported by my manager. But I do work for an international company and she’s not belgian.