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Burnout Training Course
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Prevent and Combat Workplace Burnout
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Burnout Training
Next online session: 30th September 2026
Course Overview
Burnout doesn’t happen overnight. It builds quietly, when pressure stays high, expectations keep shifting, and there’s little space to recover.
For organisations, the impact is hard to ignore. Burnout affects focus, morale, retention, and the overall health of your teams. Left unaddressed, it can start to shape how people work, interact, and perform.
Fortunately, our Burnout Training helps you recognise what’s really going on beneath the surface, and gives your team practical ways to prevent and manage it, before it takes hold.
Course Highlights
✔ Understanding what burnout actually is
✔ Identifying the causes of burnout in the workplace, and how to prevent this
✔ The Window of Tolerance
✔ Tools and strategies to combat burnout
✔ Planning ahead for your stress
✔ Worksheets and resources to build upon the burnout strategies learnt in sessions
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What You Will Gain
✔ Increased understanding of burnout
✔ Psychologically informed training
✔ Management and employee training
✔ Burnout prevention strategies
✔ Reduced stigma across teams
Delivered by Psychological Professionals
Our burnout training is delivered by our in-house trainers who have extensive psychological experience.
✔ Registered with BACP.
✔ MSc or BSc in Psychology or Organisational Psychology.
✔ Over 15 years experience delivering across a variety of industries including education, NHS, finance, manufacturing, tech, hospitality, law enforcement and local authorities.
✔ Continuous CPD and research to ensure content is relevant and up to date.
What Is Burnout? (And Why It’s Costing Your Business)
Burnout isn’t just feeling tired after a busy week. It’s what happens when pressure builds over time without enough recovery, support, or control. People don’t suddenly burn out. They get there gradually, often while still showing up and doing their job.
In many organisations, burnout is already present, just under different names: low motivation, increased absence, missed deadlines, or people quietly disengaging. When you look at current workplace mental health statistics and trends, the picture is clear. More employees are struggling to sustain the pace and pressure of modern work, and it’s starting to show in performance and retention.
Left unaddressed, burnout doesn’t stay contained to one individual. It affects teams, managers, and your overall business outcomes.
The Business Impact of Burnout
When employees are burned out, they’re not able to work at their best. Focus drops, decision-making slows, and even simple tasks can start to feel overwhelming. In the long-term, this creates a ripple effect across teams.
Organisations experiencing burnout often see:
– Increased sickness absence and long-term leave
– Higher staff turnover and loss of experienced employees
– Reduced productivity and work quality
– Lower morale and team engagement
– Increased pressure on managers to pick up the slack
There’s also a financial cost. Poor mental health is estimated to cost UK businesses billions each year, with burnout playing a significant role.
Without the right support in place, burnout can quietly erode performance, culture, and retention. This makes it harder for your organisation to sustain long-term success.
What Your Team Will Learn in Burnout Training
Our burnout training is designed to be practical, relevant, and immediately useful. It focuses on helping people understand what’s really driving burnout, and what they can do about it, both individually and as part of a team.
During sessions, your team will cover:
✔ What burnout actually is (and what it isn’t): A clear, grounded understanding of burnout, how it develops over time, and how it differs from everyday stress.
✔ Early warning signs and risk factors: How to recognise the subtle shifts that often come before burnout fully develops (both in themselves and others).
✔ The difference between stress and burnout in real situations: Practical examples that help people spot when pressure is becoming something more serious.
✔ Workplace factors that contribute to burnout: Exploring how workload, expectations, communication, and team dynamics can increase or reduce risk.
✔ The Window of Tolerance: Understanding how capacity fluctuates under pressure, and how to recognise when someone is moving outside of it.
✔ Practical strategies to manage pressure and prevent burnout: Simple, realistic approaches that can be used day-to-day. Not idealised solutions that don’t fit real workloads.
✔ Healthy boundaries and sustainable ways of working: How to manage workload, expectations, and availability without feeling like performance will suffer.
✔ How to have supportive conversations about burnout: Building confidence in responding to colleagues or team members who may be struggling.
✔ Creating a more supportive team environment: Small, meaningful changes that help reduce pressure and improve how teams function together.
✔ Tools, worksheets, and take-away resources: Materials participants can return to, helping them apply what they’ve learned beyond the session.
Who Is This Training For?
Burnout affects people at every level of an organisation. But, the way it shows up, and the support needed, can look very different.
This training is designed to support both managers and employees, giving each group the clarity and confidence to recognise burnout early and respond in a way that’s realistic within their role.
We also provide specialist support to senior leadership teams who are looking to support their entire organisation.
Burnout Training for Managers
Managers are often expected to support their teams, but many haven’t been given the tools to do this well.
This training helps managers move beyond guesswork, so they can respond with confidence rather than hesitation or avoidance.
Managers will learn how to:
Spot early warning signs of burnout within their team
• Understand the difference between performance issues and wellbeing concerns
• Respond to employees in a calm, supportive, and appropriate way
• Avoid common pitfalls, such as minimising concerns or overstepping boundaries
• Create clearer expectations around workload, priorities, and communication
• Build a team culture where people feel able to speak up earlier
Burnout Training for Employees
Employees are often the first to experience the impact of burnout, but may not always recognise it or feel able to act on it.
This training gives employees practical ways to better understand and manage their own capacity, without adding pressure or unrealistic expectations.
Employees will learn how to:
• Recognise their own early warning signs of burnout
• Understand personal triggers and patterns under pressure
• Manage workload and priorities more effectively
• Set and maintain healthier boundaries at work
• Communicate when they’re struggling in a clear and constructive way
• Use practical tools to recover and reduce ongoing pressure
By supporting both managers and employees, our training helps create a more consistent and sustainable approach to managing burnout across your organisation.
How Our Burnout Training is Delivered
We keep our training flexible, so it fits around your organisation. Not the other way around.
Our burnout training can be delivered in a format that suits your team, your schedule, and what you want to achieve from the session.
Delivery options include:
✔ Live online training – Interactive sessions delivered via video platform, ideal for remote or distributed teams
✔ In-person workshops – Delivered at your workplace, allowing for deeper discussion, collaboration, and team engagement
✔ Hybrid delivery – A combination of online and in-person sessions, depending on your team structure
Flexible session lengths:
We offer a range of formats depending on how in-depth you want the training to be.
✔ Short awareness sessions (1–3 hours) – A focused introduction to burnout and early warning signs
✔ Half-day workshops – A more practical, discussion-led approach with real workplace scenarios
✔ Full-day training – Deeper exploration with time to build confidence and apply strategies
✔ Multi-session programmes – For organisations looking to embed learning and create longer-term change
If you’re not sure what format is right, we’ll help you choose an approach that fits your goals, team size, and time available.
Training Outcomes
By the end of the training, your team won’t just understand burnout—they’ll know what to do about it.
You can expect:
Earlier recognition of burnout. Employees and managers feel more confident spotting the signs before things escalate
More effective conversations. Teams are better equipped to talk about pressure, workload, and wellbeing in a constructive way
Stronger day-to-day coping strategies. Practical tools that help individuals manage pressure without becoming overwhelmed
Clearer boundaries and expectations. Improved understanding of workload, priorities, and what’s realistically manageable
More confident managers. Managers know how to respond appropriately, without avoiding the issue or overstepping
Improved engagement and morale. When people feel supported, they’re more likely to stay engaged and perform at their best
A more sustainable way of working. Small, realistic changes that reduce pressure and support long-term wellbeing across teams
Our focus is on outcomes that last beyond the session, so the learning doesn’t get forgotten a week later.
Why Choose PMAC for Workplace Burnout Training?
There’s no shortage of training that talks about burnout. The difference is whether it actually changes anything.
At PMAC, we focus on making the training feel relevant, practical, and grounded in real workplace experiences, so people leave knowing how to apply it, not just what it means.
What sets us apart:
✔ Practical, real-world approach: We avoid overly academic or theory-heavy sessions. Everything is designed to be useful in day-to-day work.
✔ Experienced mental health professionals: Our trainers bring both clinical understanding and workplace insight, so the content feels credible and relatable.
✔ Tailored to your organisation: We shape each session around your challenges, your people, and your working environment.
✔ Engaging and accessible delivery: Sessions are interactive, discussion-based, and designed to keep people involved, not talked at.
✔ Support beyond the session: We provide resources and guidance to help you continue the conversation and build on what’s been covered.
✔ Trusted by organisations across sectors: We work with a wide range of organisations, supporting teams to approach mental health with more confidence and clarity.
If you’re looking for training that people will actually remember (and use) this is where PMAC stands apart.
Get in Touch to Book Your Burnout Training
If you’re looking to build a healthier, more sustainable, and high-performing workplace, we’re here to help.
Whether you already know what you need or you’re still figuring it out, we’ll work with you to shape a burnout training that truly fits your organisation.
FAQ's
Burnout training helps employees and managers recognise the early signs of burnout, understand what causes it, and learn practical ways to prevent and manage it at work. We focus on real-life workplace situations, not just theory.
Burnout can lead to increased absence, lower productivity, and higher staff turnover. Training helps organisations address these issues early, supporting both employee wellbeing and overall performance.
Burnout training is suitable for both managers and employees. Managers learn how to support their teams effectively, while employees gain tools to manage their own workload, stress, and wellbeing.
Our Burnout Training is flexible and can range from short sessions (1–3 hours) to half-day or full-day workshops. Multi-session programmes are also available for organisations looking for more in-depth support.
Absolutely! Training is tailored to reflect your industry, team structure, and the specific challenges your organisation is facing, ensuring the content feels relevant and practical.
Yes! Our Burnout Training can be delivered online, in person, or as a hybrid model, making it suitable for remote, hybrid, and office-based teams.
Common signs include ongoing exhaustion, reduced motivation, difficulty concentrating, increased mistakes, and feeling detached or disengaged from work. These signs are often subtle at first, which is why early awareness is key.
Stress is usually short-term and linked to specific pressures, while burnout develops over time and leads to ongoing exhaustion, disengagement, and reduced performance. Burnout doesn’t typically improve with rest alone, which makes it harder to recognise and address without support.
"PMAC reached out to us directly to find out whether we had any wellbeing training needs. It was a bit of a coincidence as we did! We spoke with Jamie who arranged multiple MHA courses for us that have been invaluable for our staff."
Daisy Baggot, HR Partner
KP Capital