Pursuing ambitious goals is essential for achieving impact at scale. However, organisations scaling up often face staff burnout, which is a real challenge. Without the right people and the necessary support, progress becomes difficult.
Staff burnout usually stems from inadequate capacity and capability to implement plans, insufficient risk management, or weak cultural stewardship.
That’s why, regardless of where you are in your scaling journey, it’s crucial to tend to your organisation. As a social leader you must employ an honest perspective to support your staff in reaching those impactful goals without the risk of burnout:
- How is work getting done? By whom? Driven by what enablers? Held back by what barriers?
- Are our systems and processes right-sized for our purpose and stage of development?
- Do we have the capacity, capability, and structure to create and manage impact at scale?
These questions can help pinpoint significant gaps and prioritise what needs immediate attention, without adding to your already full to-do list.
Check out the guide we’ve designed to help organisations and leaders find answers.
Bonus insights:
Motivation is a thread that can help teams thrive and achieve extraordinary things, or it can unravel and become one of the greatest barriers to change. So how can we avoid burnout through intrinsic motivation? Find out in this great conversation from our Mission to Scale podcast with Sharath Jeevan, Executive Chairman of Intrinsic Labs, who knows all about it.
