Positive Workplace

Job burnout prevention course for IT managers.
Target Group: Middle and top IT management staff in SMEs. Managers play a crucial role in creating a healthy work environment for their employees. They can help prevent and handle burnout by providing clear expectations, regular feedback, recognition, autonomy, support, and resources to their employees. They can also foster a positive work culture that encourages individual growth, learning, and development, which can reduce burnout and increase engagement. Price:

Free training

Objectives:

To counteract professional burnout by equipping IT managers with the skills and knowledge to create supportive and healthy working environments. To enhance IT managers’ ability to recognize early signs of burnout and implement practical strategies that promote work-life balance and mental well-being among team members. To empower IT managers with tools to foster a culture of open communication and mental health awareness, thereby reducing burnout risks and increasing job satisfaction within their teams.

Programme:

  1. Understanding Job Burnout and Mental Health: Facts, Myths, and Realities
    • This module provides an overview of job burnout, its impact on mental health, and dispels common myths. It establishes a foundation for recognizing burnout as a legitimate workplace challenge that can be mitigated.
  2. Core Factors Contributing to Professional Burnout
    • Focuses on both organizational and individual factors that contribute to burnout, including workload, role clarity, and workplace culture, providing managers with insights into key burnout triggers.
  3. Establishing Healthy Working Standards and Boundaries
    • Covers the implementation of healthy workplace standards, including setting boundaries for work-life balance, promoting fair workloads, and fostering flexible yet structured working conditions.
  4. Effective Supervisor Support and Active Listening Skills
    • Explores how managers can provide meaningful support through listening, empathy, and constructive feedback, emphasizing the role of supervisors in reducing burnout risks.
  5. Building Cohesion: Team, Community, and Belonging
    • Focuses on strategies to create a strong sense of team identity and community, enhancing mutual support and fostering a collaborative, inclusive environment that reduces isolation.
  6. Implementing Participative Management Practices
    • Teaches participative management techniques that encourage employees to contribute ideas and participate in decision-making, creating a sense of ownership and reducing stress.
  7. Recognizing and Reinforcing Through Rewards and Constructive Feedback
    • Covers methods for providing external motivation through rewards, recognition, and constructive feedback, helping managers foster motivation without adding pressure.
  8. Fostering Intrinsic Motivation and a Sense of Purpose
    • Helps managers tap into their team members’ intrinsic motivations, aligning their roles with personal values and sense of purpose to enhance job satisfaction and resilience against burnout.
  9. Preventive Strategies: Early Burnout Detection and Intervention
    • Trains managers to identify early signs of burnout and provides immediate strategies for intervention, including regular check-ins, assessment tools, and referral options for support.
  10. Creating a Culture of Mental Health Awareness and Openness
    • Focuses on building a culture that supports mental health awareness, encourages open discussions about burnout, and normalizes seeking support, breaking down the stigma around these issues.

Duration:

The course consists of 10 modules and each module consists of several lessons which interplay knowledge, practice, practical tips and useful tools. Each module will last a minimum of 40 minutes and a maximum of 90 minutes, meaning that completing the entire course will take approximately 8-10 hours of self-paced learning, tests including.

Requirements:

Conditions for Completing the Course:
  • Visiting of all screens of the course
  • The course will include tracking functionality to record the participant\\s progress.
Conditions for obtaining confirmation of acquisition of competences
  • passing the posttest for a given module with a score of >60%.

Additional information:

Course funded by European Commission Erasmus + Programme – Key Action 2 Vocational Education and Training, Project “PositiveWorkplace - Counteracting professional burnout by equipping IT managers with professional qualifications in the field of creating friendly working conditions”