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All partners organised Multiplier Events in their countries involving people from different institutions, adults and SMEs with the aim to promote the project and provide information on the project, its results, outcomes, e-modules and the results. The dissemination events gave people the opportunity to participate, ask questions and discuss their thoughts and impressions with events’ organisers (the project partners). These events included short workshops on raising resilience and showed the project outputs online. Some partners delivered their dissemination events as open events, to which professionals from the coaching sector, SME owners and managers were all invited. In some countries, the events were closed and were delivered to the employees of one company.

Feedback was collected from participants at the multiplier events, to allow for any required modification for the final product of the project. The events received positive feedback and were a great demonstration of the usefulness of the project and how it will help people to cope with burnout!

We have been very inspired when working together on addressing the issue of burnout, especially when interacting with our local communities during Multiplier Events.
It was very rewarding to receive positive feedback on the tools, which were designed to help others prevent burnout by raising resilience in themselves and others.

We presented methods to help combat burnout. We provided participants with tips and tricks to give them some extra methods they could try out in their daily lives. From the tool kits, participants should be able to find something that works for them. The multiplier events gave us the opportunity to demonstrate how the tools make it possible to communicate needs, feelings, problems, stress and to connect effectively with other people.

We recommend that people put their energy into things that they can change and influence. This will be a productive use of energy and will lead to concrete actions and positivity, which will influence effective and constructive behaviour. Why don’t you discover your own social style? It may help you to deal with stress in a more self-conscious way and help to reduce your stress levels.

Ultimately, changing your mindset, beliefs, attitudes and views is at the heart of changing your behaviour.

POLAND

In Poland a dissemination event took place on 22nd May 2019 with about 100 participants from a wide range of institutions, SMEs from a wide range of sectors, associations of entrepreneurs, adult educators, coaching and training institutions.  The event started with a presentation of the project, its results,  the e-learning platform and two workshops on the various techniques to increase the resilience and prevent situations of burnout.

PORTUGAL

In Portugal a wide-scale dissemination event took place on 30th May 2019 with more than 90 participants from a wide range of institutions, including VET providers, entities supporting guidance, employment and personal development organisations, municipalities and other local authorities, community services and SMEs from a wide range of sectors. The event started with a presentation of the project frameworks and its results, an immersion within the e-learning platform and a hands-on workshop on the various techniques to increase the resilience and prevent situations of burnout.
The evaluation of the event from the participants was very encouraging and motivating to continue disseminating and developing these tools.

UK

In the UK, the multiplier event was held on Thursday 9th May 2019. It was held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield and attracted a wide range of participants from many different employment sectors, including SME employees and managers, community development organisations, local service organisations (e.g. police) and sole traders.

The event was evaluated very highly and participants thoroughly enjoyed the tools that we presented and many indicated that they would like to use these tools in the future. Many participants also noted that they enjoyed taking the time out to self-reflect and consider the causes and consequences of stress and burnout, something that affects so many of us, but that we rarely dedicate time towards in our busy lives. This was incredible feedback, as it proves that the Burnout project has had a really strong impact on the participants, who will continue to benefit from the online training in the future.

ITALY

In Italy, the multiplier event was held on the 24^thof April 2019. It was held at the Civil Protection of Viggiano, Basilicata and attracted a wide range of participants from many different employment sectors, including SME employees and managers, community development organisations, local service organisations and associations.
The event was evaluated very highly and participants thoroughly enjoyed the tools. They also showed interest in the topic and enjoyed the experience of using the platform. Managers and employee of the civil protection of Viggiano (Basilicata) face everyday problems in their workplace so they found very useful the exercises to manage the stress and they express the interest to use the toolkits in the future.

BELGIUM

In Belgium the multiplier event has been organized on the 28^thof Junefor the sme’s organization called Multimedi. After a brief introduction of the project, we have presented the Toolkits and ask participants to test the exercises on the platform. The event was very useful for the managers of the company and in the future Obelisk is going to deliver a workshop on the Burnout topic.
The evaluation of the participants demonstrates that the content is very interesting and they express the need to organize more activities related to it.

We have developed 10 toolkits with 10 ways to raise resilience. You are invited to experiment with each toolkit and use it as often as you would like.

We have selected different videos from the internet, which are linked to the theme of the toolkits.
Some videos will give a more in depth explanation of the tool, others are examples of the tool in real life. Let this inspire you to look for more videos yourself. If you do not find the video suitable for your own situation, or interesting then skip it and go on to the next one.

Each partner has developed 2 webinars that correspond to one toolkit. The webinars explain the chosen tool, related exercises or tips and tricks.

The tips and tricks are designed to give you some extra activities that you could try implementing in your daily life. You do not need to try all of the toolkits, as some will be more relevant to you than others. Try to see the tips as an experiment, where you will have to experience some trial and error. If one tip does not work for you, try another one until you find the ones that you enjoy most. It is like the saying ‘Good practice makes fine art.’ The more you try out the tips, the easier they will get.

Don’t give up!

The Webinars explain the exercises. The exercises will help to test and challenge you in the tool that we have chosen. They will help you by encouraging you to reflect on your own situation and letting you experiment with different techniques. It is important to realise that this is merely the first step in becoming more resilient.

Sometimes the exercises will not solve all of your problems, but they might be able to shed a different light on your situation, enabling you to recognise both your areas of concern or causes of stress and your successes or energy-giving tasks, which help you to tackle the day. If you find it difficult to do the exercises by yourself, try asking someone you trust to do it with you.

You will see there are different types of exercises

• DO-exercises
• REFLECT exercises
• RECOGNISING exercises
• CASE STUDY exercises
• LITTLE QUESTIONNAIRES

Try to do the exercises that are most relevant to your situation. Sometimes it is best to spread it out and to not try to do everything at once. Try to get in the rhythm of doing one exercise per day, perhaps. By repeating an exercise, you will be able to really learn how to integrate it in your (work) life.

Good luck!

We would like to introduce our tool developed within project SMEs tool to prevent Burnout.

The aim of the project is to prevent burnout at work and raise resilience, to help SMEs staff and managers to forecast burnout, to recognize the warning signs, to take steps to regain balance and to change peoples’ approach to a balanced life, to improve working conditions, and to reduce the cost of burnout, and stress.

The tools contains five topics:

• Social Styles
• Feedforward performance tool
• GROW model
• Ofman’S Core Quadrants
• Circle of Influence

What is FEEDFORWARD?

Now, what is ‘feedforward?’ and why is it a better method than ‘classic feedback’ to raise resilience in teams and individuals?When you give feedback, you focus on the past, on what has already happened and what can’t be changed.

Moreover, when you receive feedback, you often feel personally attacked, which makes you defensive.
Why so? Because feedback is accusatory: we want to prove that someone is at fault and we focus on negative behaviour.That approach demotivates people and it reduces positive energy and engagement, with stress or frustrations as a result.

Even if you would start off your feedback with something positive, the chances are that the person that receives the feedback thinks: “Ah, I already know what is happening here.
First, I’ll get a positive message.

Next, I’ll hear what I’m actually here for’. When you give feedforward, you focus on the future, on what you can create and still have an impact on. When you receive feedforward, you do not feel attacked because feedforward aims at offering help, highlighting positive behaviour and stimulating creativity. That approach is inspirational, it gives hope and new energy so that involvement increases. Teaching people what is right instead of proving them what they are doing wrong, has a more productive and energising effect. Raised resilience is the result.

We would like to introduce our tool developed within project SMEs tool to prevent Burnout. The aim of the project is to prevent burnout at work and raise resilience, to help SMEs staff and managers to forecast burnout, to recognize the warning signs, to take steps to regain balance and to change peoples’ approach to a balanced life, to improve working conditions, and to reduce the cost of burnout, and stress.

THE TOOLKIT CONTAINS:

Personal coping
One of the tools is “the social styles” tool. It is the tool that we provide to strengthen your resilience with respect to personal coping.

Experience at work
When you’re experiencing prolonged periods of stress, it is important to recognize the areas where you do have control, so that you can keep your stress levels within reason. Maintaining this focus is not always easy, which is why the American psychologist Stephen Covey developed a model that he called “the Circles of focus”.

Think yourself strong
The idea that stress cannot be avoided is wrong, nothing could be further from the truth. It is not the event itself that determines our behaviour and emotions; it’s the way we handle it and look at the event from the perspective of our own (irrational) thoughts….

Create resilience in your environment
In this toolkit, we want to work on your resilience and that of others by focusing on a ‘connecting way’ of communication by Marshall Rosenberg.
Creating resilience in your environment starts with connecting to your environment. How you communicate about your needs, feelings, problems and stress, has a great impact on how your environment and people will develop a connection with you.

Health and well-being
Stress can be seen as a type of load that you carry. Whether this load is experienced as positive or negative depends on the balance between capacity and load. You will experience negative stress when your load exceeds your carrying capacity. The carrying capacity and load capacity is different for each individual. So, the intent is to reduce your load and to make your carrying capacity as high as possible. You can do this by looking to the things that give you energy and the thing that eat at your energy.

More soon on our website notoburnout.com

SME Tools to prevent Burnout  is an Erasmus + KA2 project financed by the European Commission.
The aim of the project is to prevent burnout at work and raise resilience, to help SMEs staff and managers to forecast burnout, to recognize the warning signs, to take steps to regain balance and to change people’s approach to a balanced life, improving working conditions, and to reduce the cost of burnout and stress.

WHAT IS BURNOUT ALL ABOUT?

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Have a look at the framework developed by the partnership

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