Preventing Burnout Toolkit

Preventing Burnout Toolkit

Tackling the causes, not just the symptoms

Burnout is rarely solved by a wellbeing day, an app or a resilience workshop. Those things help people cope with pressure. They don’t reduce it. Burnout builds when workloads outstrip capacity, when people can’t say they’re struggling, and when managers are left to hold it together without support.

This toolkit helps HR Directors and People Leaders prevent burnout by tackling its causes, not just its symptoms, and sharing responsibility across leaders, managers and individuals rather than leaving it with HR alone. Use it as a conversation starter with your senior team, a framework for equipping managers, or a working toolkit for teams.

What’s Inside

• A quick burnout risk review to see where pressure is building.
• A manager’s guide to spotting the early signs.
• An honest workload conversation guide.
• A team ways-of-working template to protect capacity.
• A clear split of who owns what, across leaders, managers, HR and individuals.
• A recovery and boundaries checklist to audit what’s in place.

Who It’s For

HR Directors, People Leaders and managers.