Stop with the micromanagement, nobody likes that! Be a leader and let your team make their own decisions. Long-term, everybody wins.

You don’t need anybody to like you. You need to do your job to the best of your ability, improve and grow so that you can become a better person. You don’t need friends at work to get the job done. Yes, you need to be professional, respectful and genuinely nice to people. The better the social environment, the less chance of a burnout; people around you do matter.

A way that some try to deal with burnout, is to distract themselves with technology or just sit there, doing nothing. Maybe that works for a while, but long term, it’s not an efficient fix.

What if you would track how much time you waste on not doing anything, on social media/watching TV?

Try this exercise for one week, write down what you do, for how long and you will see how much time you could gain for productive activities. Maybe you invest that time in a hobby or in building your own business. Think about it.

 

Another big reason why people experience burnout, is the lack of control of their own activities. They get micromanaged, pushed, stressed out by their manager and/or colleagues. If they don’t like the job in the first place, this makes things 10 times worse. This need of control that some bosses have, is hurting their employees and they don’t even know about it, or maybe they decide to ignore it. They go with the “if I supervise my people, they will do a good job” mentality.

Being under a microscope can and will put a lot of stress on the team. This will make them become way less productive and the company will suffer.

If they need the job, they won’t quit. They will probably just do the bare minimum and that’s it. In time, they won’t even listen to the manager and will undermining the boss, or even worse, the team. However, if they do decide to quit, then you, as a manager have a real problem, especially if you need that employee. It will cost you time and money to train another person, who will most likely do the same thing, stick around for a while, see your management style and quit. Then, you will have to repeat the process over and over again, unless you quit and go somewhere else, because you will 100% blame others and not yourself. It’s ok, nobody’s perfect; take responsibility and make a change!