Curiosity as Burnout Prevention | Alenka Znidarsic

In this episode of Ctrl + Alt + Delete with Lisa Duerre™ – Make sure to double click on these key moments in the episode:

[8:53] Questions you can use to shift things when talking to engineers

[11:40] Alenka’s Story: From PhD to leader and her burnout story

[14:00] Missed opportunities by leaders, both about their people and the organization

[15:50] A recipe for burnout

[16:40] What engineers need from leadership
[20:08] Questions leaders could presence to address the human side of their people

[24:01] Fixing vs. Innovation (24:01)

[27:20] Addressing Burnout on the System Level

[31:40] Working with and bending time

[37:52] Using data that you already have to understand your people

[41:43] Good leaders how up curious and ready to listen

[43:57] Alenka’s invitation to Leaders

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

Leaders of engineers miss opportunities to see and deal with their people as people. This oversight leads to dissatisfaction, negative self talk of their employees and burnout.
Leaders can shift this by the use of powerful questions that inquire about their employees on a personal level. For example: What’s going on in your life? What can we change, improve or do differently?
Burnout happens and can present on two levels: the personal level and the systemic level.
There is a lot of data that can help leaders ascertain the health and burnout level of their people: absenteeism, missed meetings, etc.
The system of the organization changes slowly but can be moved in a direction that allows the people to be acknowledged people first. This sets them up to then approach the work of the organization in a deeper, more effective way.

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