Managing Burnout

This course is designed for individuals who are experiencing work-related burnout. This course is suitable for individuals from a wide variety of professions but may be especially helpful for individuals who work in “helping” professions such as healthcare and teaching. This course may also be helpful for leaders and managers who are interested in learning more about burnout so that they can prevent and manage burnout among their teams.

The purpose of this course is help individuals and leaders understand what burnout is, the causes and consequences of burnout, and strategies that can be used to manage burnout.

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

· Describe burnout and give examples of consequences of burnout in their personal situation.

· Explain the causes of burnout.

· Employ multiple individual-level strategies to manage burnout.

· Recommend team- and organization-level strategies to manage burnout.

· Create a plan to manage the experience of burnout that can be implemented now or in the future.