Based on your feedback, we are offering resources to help you identify when your workload is too much and how to have conversations with your direct reports about stress, burnout, and workload. Here are some questions that may be helpful to get you started.
From supervisor to staff
Workload management
- What tasks/responsibilities have taken longer than expected?
- What are your top priorities for today/this week/etc.?
- Are there any barriers in your job? What can I do to help remove those barriers?
- What tasks are most stressful? What part of the workday do you find most stressful?
- What do you consider your personal successes today/this week/etc.?
- How can I help you be successful at work?
- What is the best way to give you meaningful feedback about your performance (positive or negative)?
- What suggestions do you have for improvements in the work? The office?
- Is there anything new going on that you’d like to talk about?
- What can I do to support you?
- What are the top one or two things concerning you right now?
