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Beyond Burn and Churn: Protecting Your High Performers from Career Burnout

February 12, 2009

 SPACE

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So How Should You Protect From Burnout?

Leader Development (don’t promote competent jerks; improve promotion & selection systems of leaders at all levels; make talent retention part of executive compensation)

Employee Involvement (implement more self-managed work teams; increase opportunities for participative decision-making)

Work-Life Balance (provide and support telecommuting, flextime, and childcare services)

Employee Career & Professional Development (don’t promote specialists into leadership roles; provide developmental coaching for high potentials; offer informal/formal mentoring programs; teach leaders to be better coaches)

Team Building (provide bonuses to leaders for building high performance teams; increase formal and informal networking opportunities)

Wellness/Lifestyle Coaching (use health risk appraisals to promote wellness; invest in health promotion programs and lifestyle coaching for all talent)

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