Burnout is a major contributor to the loss of skilled and experienced employees in organisations. Noticing the signs early and asking how your staff really feel is key in protecting against burnout, rather than a reactive approach when someone needs to take long-term sick leave.
This short session will help you to:
This short session will help you understand workplace burnout and its root causes while highlighting the vital roles of communication, meaning and boundaries.
The training has three main sections:
It also provides the opportunity to explore organisation-specific issues and offers practical strategies for staff and managers to create a work environment that helps prevent burnout at work.
What is burnout, how does it affect your organisation, and how do we recognise it? We'll explore the importance of communication, meaning and boundaries, and opportunities for support and celebration.
We’ll discuss the organisational factors that contribute to burnout in the workplace and what we need when we are feeling overwhelmed to build resilience and support good mental health and wellbeing.
We’ll take time to reflect on our own situations, acknowledge our limitations, and consider possibilities for development. We’ll think about techniques for avoiding burnout ourselves, and where staff are able to look after their wellbeing with resources to help.
Understanding burnout helps the way we approach and shape the conversations we have about it.
Encouraging open, honest conversations in the workplace and addressing the issue directly, rather than avoiding it, is crucial. It starts with leadership, creating environments where employees feel comfortable asking for help.
“It’s important to have open and honest conversations. We can’t fix burnout by talking loosely about mental health. Burnout is burnout. What’s required is specific to what support that person needs”
Dr Rachel Sumner
The blend of resources to spark a conversation, discuss insights, and the simplicity of explaining some complex concepts and theories. It made it relational and practical.
Found the mattering, meaning, solidarity key points as really useful plus the insight into burnout from Covid enquiry. Good short burst of updating and refreshing of the subject.
Found this training extremely useful and aligned with what I want to achieve within my organisation. Discussions were relevant and being able to talk with other professionals was refreshing.
It was a brilliant session, and the trainers were so knowledgeable in their delivery. I feel that I have learned a lot from the session and am grateful for the opportunity to have been in the training and to develop my knowledge.
Our training is grounded in psychological insight, real-world practice, and the importance of connection, compassion, and relationships at work.
We are a social enterprise and part of Platfform, the charity for mental health and social change. This means our approach is shaped by real work with people experiencing mental health challenges and with communities building connection, ownership, and wellbeing in the places where they live and work.
Platfform delivers over 120 projects and services across crisis prevention, employment and skills, children and families, and wellbeing, supporting over 9,000 people each year. This gives us a deep, practical understanding of what genuinely helps people feel supported, engaged, and able to thrive, and we bring that learning directly into our work with organisations.
Burnout is a state of physical, emotional and mental exhaustion, often related to workplace stress. But it’s more than chronic stress or feeling down. It’s a deeper kind of mental and physical depletion. The causes of burnout at work can develop gradually when people feel overwhelmed, undervalued, or unable to meet the demands of their role. Burnout isn’t about someone “not coping”; it’s often a sign that people have been working within difficult conditions for too long without the right support.
People experiencing burnout might feel drained, detached, or unable to concentrate. They may find it harder to connect with others or feel a growing sense of hopelessness about work. Our wellbeing training takes a proactive approach and helps staff understand these signs early, open up conversations about what’s really going on, and think about what needs to change for people to feel well and supported.
Our burnout training for employees is a short, 2-hour session that helps people understand what burnout is, what contributes to it, and what can help prevent it.
We explore the root causes of burnout, the impact it can have on people and organisations, and the importance of communication, meaning and boundaries in protecting staff wellbeing. The session is practical and reflective, with space for people to think about what this means in their own roles and teams.
This training is designed for any workplace where stress and emotional demand are part of the job, including:
Teams in challenging roles where stress and burnout risk is high
Healthcare professionals at all levels, from frontline staff to managers
Education staff and teachers
Legal professionals, including solicitors and lawyers
HR staff at all levels
Leaders and managers across sectors
By the end of the session, your team will have:
A clearer understanding of what burnout is and how it shows up in day-to-day work
Greater awareness of the organisational factors that can increase burnout risk
Practical ideas for looking after themselves and each other when things are tough
Space to reflect on their own situations and what might need to change
Shared language to support more open, honest conversations about burnout and wellbeing
The aim is to support a culture of care, openness and understanding, rather than a reactive approach when someone reaches crisis.
Both. We know burnout isn’t just about individual coping skills. Our burnout training for employees invites people to think about:
What they personally need to feel well, valued and able to do their best work
The wider organisational factors that contribute to burnout, such as workload, lack of mattering, limited support or unclear boundaries
We explore how leaders, managers and teams can shape working environments where people feel they matter, have a sense of meaning, and experience solidarity with colleagues.
Yes. While the core structure of the session stays the same, there is always space to explore organisation-specific issues. We encourage participants to bring real examples from their own roles and workplaces so we can think together about what’s happening, what’s getting in the way, and what realistic changes might help.
If you would like us to focus on a particular team, service area or challenge, we can discuss this with you before the session.
Yes. The session can be delivered online or in person. For remote or hybrid teams, online delivery can be a helpful way to bring people together from different locations. We still build in opportunities for reflection, small-group conversations and questions, so that staff feel able to share their experiences and learn from one another.
This burnout training for employees can form part of a wider approach to workplace wellbeing. Many organisations choose to combine it with:
Consultancy around workplace culture and systems
Reflective practice or supervision for staff
Counselling for employees who need more individual support
Additional training for managers and leaders
We’re happy to talk with you about what might be most helpful for your organisation and how different elements can work together.
If you’re interested in bringing this burnout training into your organisation, the first step is simply to start a conversation with us. You can contact our team or book a call using the links on this page. We’ll talk through what you’re looking for, who will be attending, and what you hope will change as a result of the training, and we’ll take it from there together.
Get in touch and start a conversation with us