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Association Lifestyle – How Is Your Association Approaching Wellness And Preventing Burnout?

My employer is a big proponent of health and wellness as part of our daily work week. They are great about ensuring we take care of ourselves by providing us with Wellness Wednesday (weekly 30–minute meditations – optional on virtual attendance). Sharing resourceful information via books or apps focusing on health and wellness for a variety of ideas to energize and clear our minds. Or just taking a day or partial day to just go get rejuvenated. I personally enjoy going for a walk or reading information from the Thrive app on my iPhone. – Anonymous Member

Encouraging all team members to attend at least one personal or professional development opportunity to invest in themselves! – Amy Brown, Visit Fort Worth

Shepard Exposition Services has several employee engagement opportunities and options, ranging from stock options (being an employee–owned company), remote and office gatherings, training, group sales meetings, and sharing success as a “one team” celebration. Employee newsletters, employee highlight in–depth interviews, all–employees team calls, open–door policy for all leadership. Personally, focusing on a healthy balance between work and life/family. Doing anything outside in the sun! – Tod Stehling, Shepard Exposition Services

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Our weekly staff meetings provide a safe space for a ‘mental’ check–in to ensure everyone is feeling heard/seen and that the work distribution is such that no one person is overburdened. It
helps the entire team understand what outside circumstances are being dealt with during the workday so that empathy and compassion can be shown to those who need that little extra support. We’ve become a stronger, more cohesive team! – Francis Woodard, Visit McKinney

An unexpected extra day off extended Memorial Day into a glorious four–day weekend – the perfect rejuvenating break to fend off burnout. – Marilyn Ellis, Superior Exposition Services

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To avoid burnout, I like to make the workplace fun. Every Monday I send a question of the week to the team, a riddle to solve, a puzzle, or random trivia. The first person to answer correctly gets a $10 gift card to local restaurants in our community. The team really looks forward to it and it makes me happy to see them get into it and even compete or give each other a hard time. It’s all in good fun and brightens the day. – Harmony Heard, Visit South Padre Island

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We are a fully remote company. We only have three people in Austin, everyone else in Australia and New Zealand. We have been doing a coworking session at Cosmic Saltillo (East Austin) – great coffee, tacos, and a full bar. It makes it easy to share and collaborate and lets us get out of the house. and eat tacos….all in all not a bad way to spend a day. – Bijay Mathew, Art of Mentoring

A couple of things I’ve done over the years in burnout situations:
1. Change up my work environment – If you’re working from home, go into the office for a while (surprisingly, a commute can sometimes be a nice mental break!) or spend a day or two working out of a swank hotel lobby and treat yourself to a nice lunch.
2. Before I became a solopreneur, when feeling burned out I’d find time with my manager to go through my projects and look for things that could be put on hold, reassigned, or deprioritized. They might not be aware of everything you’re doing (or how much time some things take), so this can help alert them to the need for additional staffing.
3. Once the pool opens, take a day or a half–day to chill out by the water, listen to an audiobook, and don’t think about work! – Carrie McIntyre, Navigate

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Burnout! What a fantastic topic! We don’t always have to be doing something to prevent burnout. Sometimes making time to listen to people and allowing them to vent without judgment will allow their shoulders to drop. – Cole Di Carlo, Alexa Management

No vacation time. No sick time. As long as you do your job well, take what vacation you want
and sick time when you need. No questions asked. Avoids burnout. Increases loyalty and empowerment. Works great for our Association Management Company. – Richard May, CAE, Executive Director, TAPIA

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