GOVERNING FOR
BURNOUT

A look at mental burnout with this extended convo with Dr Jaelea Skehan, Director of Everymind. Specifically its impact on board directors, the boardroom, and how to create a workplace culture that prevents it from happening.

Dr Jaelea Skehan OAM is an internationally respected leader in the prevention of mental ill-health and the prevention of suicide. Jaelea is the Director of Everymind. She spoke with Paul and Aisling from FDI.

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Ep. #67 Governing for Burnout - Part 1
How to manage your own burnout as a board director

Boardrooms breed burnout. Most board directors are the hard-nosed sort to gloss over it. That’s a problem. In this, Part 1 of our ‘Governing For Burnout’ series, Dr Jaelea Skehan, Director of Everymind and mental health advocate, sits with FDI’s Paul and Aisling to skirt the start of a solution.

We go through:

• What burnout is and isn’t

• Why board directors are prone to it

• Warning signs you’re burnt out

• Steps to reverse your fizzle and fatigue

Ep. #68 Governing for Burnout - Part 2
Burnout, board director to board director

When a board is at their limits, they can’t take their org to its potential. This is Part 2 of our ‘Governing For Burnout’ series. In it, Dr Jaelea Skehan, Director of Everymind and mental health advocate, breaks down how board directors can prevent each other from breaking down.

We chat about:

• The need to make boards a safe place to say you’re burnt out

• Your duty to govern your mental health, and check in with others

• Creating codes of conduct and adopting an org’s wellness plans at board level too

• Board directors being vulnerable about burnout outside the boardroom

Ep. #69 Governing for Burnout - Part 3
How to create a workplace culture that limits staff burnout

When people are working weekends and not taking leave, it’s clear mental ill health is a-brewing. How do you ensure it doesn’t get to that point? That’s the focus of Part 3 of our ‘Governing For Burnout’ series, with Dr Jaelea Skehan, Director of Everymind.

We discuss:

• How a workplace’s culture helps its bottom line

• How Covid’s fucked everything up

• Going beyond wellness lessons. Building wellbeing into people’s job designs.

• Lag signs and lead signs of burnout

• Jaelea’s secret ingredients to a great mental health culture (not that secret at all)

Everymind is a leading Institute dedicated to reducing mental ill-health, reducing suicide and improving wellbeing.