Burnout Prevention for Managers
How to identify, manage and reverse burnout in our teams and in ourselves
Wednesday 26th April 2023, 1.30-5pm.
Zoom workshop format
Why burnout prevention for managers?
You may have seen that I’ve been delivering Burnout Prevention Session training online and in-person for more than 3 years now. I’m really proud of it, the core content has grown, developed and extended over that time, but it has always been framed as an introductory session for individuals.
Meanwhile, my 1:1 work is filled with managers, business owners and divisional leaders who are simultaneously trying to educate and inform their staff, protect them from systemic stressors, implement change and manage their own needs (and you can guess which one comes last).
That’s where this workshop comes in.
Burnout Prevention for Managers is a deeper, more detailed workshop that covers;
What burnout is
Identifying symptoms and signs in individuals
Action plans and tools for individuals
Why and how we experience burnout in teams
How burnout develops in groups and how to identify signs in others
The systemic context of burnout and factors to consider
Creating systemic solutions and a burnout preventative environment
Resourcing and solutions for managers under stress and effecting change
Why should managers care about burnout in their teams?
Burnout is the visible part of the career sustainability iceberg; by the time we start to see burnout symptoms in another person or admit there is an issue then it has already cost the individual, team and organisation substantially in time, money and morale.
How can I state that so unequivocally?
The cost of poor mental health for UK employers was estimated to be £56 billion in 2022, £26-29 billion of which is due to presenteeism.
Burnout involves reduced professional efficacy - being unable to achieve as much as we have previously, otherwise known as presenteeism. It costs more than staff turnover and absenteeism combined
Burnout is estimated to affect 76% of workers and is highly contagious amongst teams
Wellbeing is the 5th leading cause of PII claims in law firms, and even if your firm doesn’t experience a claim, wellbeing is closely examined by underwriters by a variety of measures at renewals time, which can cause PII premiums to rise.
Approaching wellbeing through a burnout lens allows us to adopt pragmatic, meaningful and evidence backed changes that start with as little as a conversation - no more wasting the wellbeing budget on nice but ultimately ineffective outcomes.
This is an introductory to intermediate workshop that will equip you with information, tools and resources and provide you with a toolkit to take back to your team to help effect meaningful, sustainable change.
This workshop is for team leaders, supervisors, managers, partners, directors and business owners with existing and developing teams and is aimed specifically at the lawyers and providers to the legal industry
Whilst the content is vitally important and something I take very seriously indeed - the approach is lighter. I believe we learn better and share more freely when we feel safe, relaxed, laughing and engaged. I will be using a combination of taught content, small breakout rooms and interactive QnA to deliver this session.
In order to offer a truly flexible and accessible service, I’ve set up three options for you to choose from.
Need to get authority/demonstrate the business case?
Click here to generate a copy of the below email to send on to your boss (just replace my email address for theirs!), or copy and paste the below into an email to your managing/authorising partner
Dear XX
I’ve found an online training workshop that I believe would be of great benefit both to my professional development, and to the wider team and I am writing to request funding authorisation to attend.
The workshop is called Burnout Prevention for Managers, presented by Leah Steele of Searching for Serenity and it’s a 3.5 hour online workshop that takes place on Wednesday 26th April 1.30-5pm. The workshop is specifically aimed at [aspiring] law firm managers like me, helping us to understand how stress at work can impact the performance, profitability and sustainability of teams.
Burnout is significant problem at work; according to a 2022 poll, 77% of employees have experienced burnout in their current job and Lawcare’s Life in the Law study last year found that the average lawyer is at high risk of burnout, scoring particularly high for exhaustion.
It costs the firm in lowered employee engagement, in lowered productivity and therefore knock on profitability, in staff turnover costs and can even cause issues with compliance, claims and our PII premium; in fact wellbeing is the 5th leading cause of PII claims in law firms and in the workshop Leah will even be setting out how a burnout-preventative focus could even help lower our PII premiums at renewals.
The workshop includes [Essentials - a 3.5 hour live online workshop / Select - a 3.5hour live online workshop, a 50 page workbook to help with implementation and a recording of the workshop to watch again / Advanced - a 3.5hour live online workshop, a video recording of the workshop to watch again, a bound 50 page workbook plus a 90 day implementation plan, together with a 1:1 follow up call with Leah to help embed any necessary changes within the team] and costs [delete according to the package you think will get approval: Essentials - £295/ Select - £495 / Advanced - £750]. Plus I can get a 25% discount if we reserve my place in the workshop before the Easter break!
If you haven’t been introduced to Leah Steele or Searching for Serenity before, Leah is a former lawyer who works with individuals and organisations all around issues of stress, burnout, imposter syndrome and career sustainability. She’s been delivering training for 7 years, has worked with organisations including DLA Piper, DAC Beachcroft, HSBC, NHS Blood & Transplant, The Employment Lawyers Association and Resolution.
I think that this training could not just benefit my own professional development as a manager who has to be alive to these issues, but to the wider firm, and I would appreciate the opportunity to support the firm with it’s commitment to wellbeing, sustainability and financial stability in this way.
Thank you in advance.
Kind regards
[Your name!]
About this beta test workshop
This workshop provides you with the information, tools and resources to understand when and how burnout arises in teams, how to address it and the steps you can start to take today to facilitate a sustainable, supportive and safer team. It is currently priced at a lower price as it is a beta version and available to a maximum of 10 attendees. The inaugural session of this workshop took place in-person on Wednesday 25th January 2023 in central London.
After the beta test takes place the format of the training moving forward will be developed and the investment is anticipated to rise significantly. I will be in contact after the workshop to gain your feedback and see how I can improve and refine this workshop further and your ticket price reflects this beta testing status.
If you have a group of 5 or more delegates to attend this training then please email hello@searchingforserenity.co.uk to organise a private in-house session at a discount
Would you like to attend a Burnout Prevention for Managers workshop but can’t make this date or location? Please email me here to be placed on the waitlist and get advanced notice of our next event online or in-person.
Any other questions, please email me at hello@searchingforserenity.co.uk or message me on Linkedin
