Christina Maslach - How to beat burnout

I have a very special guest on the show today, somebody who’s research I have been following for a number of years and that is having a tremendous impact on creating better places to work around the world.

Professor Christina Maslach is a social psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and has been studying burnout for over 4 decades. 

When we think about engagement, burnout, or wellbeing at work it would be impossible to do so without getting into some of the areas that Christina and her team have explored and researched over the years.

With the focus on these topics becoming ever stronger the work that Christina has done to put the challenges and ideas into frameworks and models that make them easier to understand and take action on has become even more important.

Her latest book ‘The Burnout Challenge’ lays down these frameworks and explains how we can start to take action on an individual basis to support our wellbeing and engagement at work, but more importantly what leaders and managers can do to create the environments that will enable their teams to thrive.

In our conversation today we talk about the 3 dimensions of burnout and the 6 'job-person mismatches' that could predict our tendency towards disengagement and burnout.

Christina shares examples and suggests starting points for how we can start to bring about change in teams and organisations regardless of size and whether they are remote, hybrid or back in the office.

Our conversation is the tip of the iceberg and I strongly encourage anybody with an interest in driving engagement in their teams to get a hold of The Burnout Challenge, read it thoroughly and start to take action!

The Burnout Challenge > https://www.amazon.co.uk/Burnout-Challenge-Managing-Peoples-Relationships/dp/0674251016

Christina Maslach profile > https://psychology.berkeley.edu/people/christina-maslach