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9 ideas to increase engagement and reduce burn out by designing work your team will love

2 June 2022 By David Kinnane Leave a Comment

If less than 20% of your work consists of things you love to do, you are far more likely to burn out. Practice owners should design work with love in mind:

  1. Encourage staff to set goals, both for their career and personal life.
  2. Invest in each employee’s ongoing education, either directly through training or by giving employees time to pursue their own projects.
  3. Stay connected with your alumni.
  4. Don’t over-rely on standardised competence tools: there is more than one way to be a great speech pathologist.
  5. Organise around teams: workers who feel part of a team are 2.7 times as likely to be engaged, 3 times as likely to be highly resilient, and twice as likely to report a strong sense of belonging.
  6. Hire interesting speech pathologists: each person’s “loves and loathings” can be combined with others to make the team greater than the sum of its parts. Assign projects based on each individual’s strengths and interests.
  7. Discard rituals that erode team trust, like staff rankings based on output-based KPIs.
  8. Pay individual attention to each speech pathologist. Supervisors who check in 1:1 every week drive their team member’s engagement up 77% and reduce turnover by 67%.
  9. Schedule once-a-week 1:1 supervision check-ins. Ask four key questions:
    • What did you love about last week?
    • What did you loathe?
    • What are your priorities for the next week?
    • How can I help?

Source: Buckingham, M. (2022). Designing Work That People Love. Harvard Business Review, June 2022.  

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About David Kinnane

David Kinnane owns and operates Speechies in Business. David is also a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist, lawyer, writer and speaker in private practice in Sydney, Australia.

David also co-owns and co-manages Banter Speech & Language, an independent private speech pathology clinic.

David sits on Speech Pathology Australia’s Ethics Board as a board member elected by SPA members.

David also volunteers his time as a Board Member of SPELD NSW, a charity for children and adults with specific learning disorders.

You can read more about David’s professional background, qualifications and experience here.

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