Cultures that BLOOM: Take Your Organization from Burnout to Balance - Paperback

by Chetna Sethi (Author)

A groundbreaking approach to burnout that treats your organization at the roots.

In workplaces worldwide, turnover has reached alarming rates. However, once leaders notice problems in their organization, they're often already teetering on the edge of breakdown.

Leadership receives conflicting reports from different individual employees and departments. People look busy, but they still aren't meeting their targets. Cliques form and gossip spreads as employees view one another with growing hostility. Morale plunges, and so do success metrics.

Organizations, and the individuals that make them up, are stretched to their limits. There is an epidemic of anxiety, exhaustion, and emotional drain. Some people's stress even leads to life-threatening health problems.

It all comes down to burnout, and leaders' misunderstanding of this phenomenon only stokes the flames.

Popular beliefs about burnout focus on the wrong things. Many view it as a problem of individual resilience and one that can be solved through one-off interventions. So-called solutions like lunchtime yoga, time-management classes, and employee improvement plans only add more stressors to overflowing to-do lists-and they miss the point.

This isn't an individual problem; it's a cultural one.

In Cultures That BLOOM, occupational therapist Chetna Sethi teaches the principles that will help you recognize sources of burnout in your organization. Readers will learn about how even the most well-meaning organizations encourage blurred boundaries and unbalanced behavior. They misalign with not just employee values, but their own professed values as well.

The BLOOM framework sets up a gold standard for a healthy organization, one that emphasizes burnout prevention and lifestyle balance and helps leaders create an organizational culture that promotes optimal quality of life and meaningful participation in the workplace. Best of all, it can apply to organizations of all sizes and types.

Burnout is not about the individual. Treating each plant as separate from its environment doesn't create a thriving garden; healing starts in the soil. It starts with a nourishing organizational culture. If you want to treat burnout properly, you need to address the misalignments in your organization-before it's too late. This book will show you how.