Every employee must wish for their employer to act with more understanding and empathy. Employees have their own tasks on their daily schedule. However, that doesn’t mean they fully enjoy everything. There must be times when they feel too tired to even look at the computer screen. Sometimes, they feel like they keep doing the same things for so long that they feel like they want to just shave their heads. Employees are not immune to burnout especially if they have to deal with intense workload daily. As the leader, you can find solution to help them avoid or deal with burnout. 

How to help your employees avoid burnout

Your employees are important factors for your business to keep running. However, they are not machine. They are human who are prone to stress especially with loads of responsibilities on their plates. Make sure that you lead them with care and empathy so they feel more valued and appreciated. Help them to prevent burnout from happening to them. 

Showing your empathy to your employees can help a lot. However, it is also known that every individual has different characteristics and personalities. Some are easy to show their emotions or express their feelings. If you are a type of leader who are not really expressive, showing empathy can be more challenging. You may have to find how to do it your own way while still delivering sincerity and empathy to your employees. 

To help your employees avoid burnout, review their workloads. If you need more data or information regarding to this, as every team leader to help you collecting necessary data. Balance workload is important to maintain to ensure that your employees are not overworked especially during this global pandemic. By providing balance workload, you can help your employees avoid fatigue and burnout. From lots of studies, burnout equally affects employees working remotely and in a physical workplace. 

Showing empathy means you have to recognize and understand your employees’ thoughts and feelings, you don’t have to be bestfriends with your employees to do so. You can still do it under professional relationship. However, make sure that your approach can make them feel at ease. Try to learn more about your employees without any bias power, or privilege. 

One of them best things to understand more your employees is by talking to them and listening more to them. Listen to what they think or feel so you know what to do to help them deal with their problems. Make sure that you monitor, assess, and respond to your employees regularly. This way, your employees know that you are there for them especially during this tough times, everyone can be each other’s support. 

It is also great of you can set a plan where a meeting is not about work you can gather your employees to have casual chats with each others. This way, you can also check on in your employees. Or, you can set a plan to have group virtual karaoke or play online games together to let off some steams.