Positive Workplace

The course on job burnout prevention was developed under the Erasmus+ KA2 Cooperation Partnerships in Vocational Education and Training (VET) program. The project was initiated to address the growing issue of workplace burnout among IT professionals, responding to the need for improved well-being and mental health in high-pressure work environments. The course aims to create a vocational education and training program that utilizes modern IT tools, interdisciplinary methodologies, and up-to-date curricula to equip participants with tools to counteract job burnout. The application was motivated by identified problems in the target group, such as stress, lack of work-life balance, and insufficient training in workplace welfare strategies. The course fills the gap in the existing vocational training offer, by dealing with significant challenge for the labour market in all European member countries.  
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 participants progress.
Conditions for obtaining confirmation of acquisition of competences
  • passing the posttest for a given module with a score of >60%.

Additional information:

The Partnership and Authors Behind the Course:

 Centrum Doradztwa Gospodarczego - CDG Sp. z o. o.(Poland)  is the initiator and originator of the project and specializes in consulting servisec and providing advanced, innovative educational solutions using new technologies. CDG developed proven teaching methods and In 2013, the e-learning brand eduRoom was established, which for the last 10 years has created an integrated environment for distance education (platforms for synchronous and asynchronous e-learning). CDG created over 45 e-learning training paths consisting of several hundred training modules. CDG has trained over 10,000 adults in over 70 different thematic areas, in stationary and e-learning forms.

 

 ITEE Łukasiewicz - Institute for Sustainable Technologies (Poland) is one of 32 institutes forming the Łukasiewicz Research Network – the third largest R&D network in Europe. ITEE is a research institute combining research work in both technical and soft areas: education and management. For over 30 years ITEE have been implementing  activities within the framework of national and international programs. The Centre contributes to the development of the Polish system of professional qualifications and competences by cooperating with various ministries. It participates in cross-sectoral and sectoral consultations for legal regulations concerning the system of qualifications.

 

GESEME (Spain) is a 27 years old Spanish organization specialized in medicine, health, safety, psychotherapy, sports, training and healthy lifestyles. It has an intensive activity and a team of 275 full time employees (medical doctors, physiotherapists, psychologists, therapists, occupational health specialists, medical nurses, educational experts, etc.). GESEME is providing specialised services for Tailored Vocational Educational Trainings in Occupational health and safety. In the last 3 years, Geseme offered for more than 60 000 people Vocational Educational Trainings in Active ageing/Wellbeing and Health/ Occupational health and safety.

 

Formation et Sensibilisation de Luxembourg (Luxembourg) FSL main activities are curriculum development and implementation, developing and implementing educational programs (for formal and nonformal educational institutions) and curricula that align with national and international standards. Teacher training and professional development, providing training and professional development opportunities for educators (formal, non-formal, youth, adult), including in-service training, workshops, and online courses. Youth support services by offering a range of support services for youth, such as counselling and mentorship. Technology integration, Integrating technology into the educational process, including using digital tools and resources to support learning and teaching.Research and evaluation: Conduct research and evaluations to assess the effectiveness of educational programs and initiatives and use the results to improve future programs.

 

Kaunas Science and Technology Park - Tech-Park Kaunas (Lithuania)  helps start-ups and already growing tech companies to increase transnational competitiveness, consults companies on business development issues, provides innovation support services, develops an innovation community, and fosters innovation culture in the Kaunas region. One of the main Tech-Park Kaunas functions is business incubation. The organisation hosts nearly 100 companies that operate in the fields of IT, engineering, health technologies, social innovation, future energy, and sustainable chemistry. The organisation is also a founder of the „Digital Rocket LT“ cluster, which focuses its activities on the digitalization of cities, public services, the creation of new products and services in order to improve citizen life quality by focusing on health-tech, green-tech, energy management, and robotization areas. The cluster brings together more than 100 professionals who provide cutting-edge ICT services for local and international customers.

 

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”.