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Beating Burnout at Work

Why Teams Hold the Secret to Well-Being and Resilience

by Paula Davis
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A first-of-its-kind, science-backed toolkit takes a holistic approach to burnout prevention by helping individuals, teams, and leaders build resilience and thrive at work.
Burnout has become one of the most talked about workplace topics, and its impact is far-reaching. The 24/7 pace of work, constant demands, and scant resources can easily put busy professionals on a path to burnout, a cycle that has only accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Burnout affects the health and well-being of the entire organization, yet most attempts to help focus on quick-fix strategies aimed at individuals. Something is missing.
In Beating Burnout at Work: Why Teams Hold the Secret to Well-Being and Resilience, Paula Davis, founder of the Stress & Resilience Institute, provides a new framework to help organizations prevent employee burnout.
Davis's research-driven, fast-reading, and actionable book is the first of its kind to explore a new solution to the burnout problem at work: a comprehensive approach focused on building the resilience of teams of all sizes. Davis argues that teams, and their leaders, are uniquely positioned to create the type of cultures that are needed to prevent burnout.
In Beating Burnout at Work, Davis shares stories from her work coaching, teaching, and training leaders and teams of all sizes, and she explores:How she navigated her own burnout as a lawyer, and how that led her to study burnout and launch a business with the aim of helping organizations and their employees become more resilient; How teams and leaders can utilize simple, science-backed strategies to create cultures that promote resilience and well-being and reduce burnout; How the Mayo Clinic, one of the most renowned medical centers in the world, has developed a powerful model to reduce burnout in its organization; How organizations dealing with high-stress challenges, including the US Army, work to increase resilience in a systemic way; andHow the German company trivago is piloting a new approach to work amid COVID-19 in order to increase team connection and resilience.Solving the burnout puzzle requires a systemic approach. In Beating Burnout at Work, Davis offers an actionable method to help leaders create cultures of well-being and resilience in their organizations.

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    March 16, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9781613631119

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      • ISBN: 9781613631119
      • File size: 2930 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      May 1, 2021
      A business-world book that outlines keys to overcoming work-related stress. Davis, the founder and CEO of the Stress & Resilience Institute consultancy, opens her debut book by citing several things that have contributed to "burnout" in 2021, which many readers will find familiar. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, for example, unemployment spiked and, due to many workers working remotely, "boundaries blurred, and always being at home made it nearly impossible to fully detach from work." In addition, she notes, "underrepresented groups have exhausted themselves trying to fit into organizations that continue to undersupport them." Factors such as these--and she could easily have listed half a dozen more in today's work environment--have combined to create a "tsunami of stress," and this book presents a number of insights and strategies designed to help one understand and combat the burnout that can result from it. Readers will nod in agreement as they read this searching, empathetic, and timely work. In it, Davis describes the burnout process as more complicated than simply being tired from working too hard; she views it as a manifestation of chronic workplace stress, and as a "gateway process" to more serious health problems, such as depression and panic attacks. She asserts that the key to getting through burnout is to avoid trying to do so alone. The silver bullet, she says, is teamwork: "Resilient teams," she writes, "anticipate challenges, are aware of each other's capacity level, provide ongoing status updates to team members during a crisis, know when to go outside the team for help, debrief regularly, and communicate appreciation." Davis grounds her contentions with copious, well-documented research, all presented in crisp, clear prose. She also bolsters her central notion of fostering "belonging and motivation" with graphs and other well-designed visuals that help to put forward a holistic vision. An indispensable study of the challenges of the new work world.

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