How would you respond if you were briefed about a treatable illness costing your company hundreds of thousands in additional healthcare expenditures? Would you leverage resources to train your teams on basic sanitary habits to mitigate its spread? Would you develop a research team to find best ways to prevent future outbreaks? As a leader, you’d respond somehow. Did you know this is happening in the American workforce today? And it’s costing nearly $190 billion dollars in work-related costs.1 The illness: burnout What is burnout? Burnout is a psychological state produced by chronic stress that creates legitimate emotional and physiological ramifications, such as the following: cynicism, detachment, ease of irritability or anger uncharacteristic increase in mistakes or work quality influx in tardiness to work or absences physical and emotional exhaustion regular feelings of ineffectiveness and lack of accomplishment lack of sleep Burnout has also … [Read more...]