Coaching practices for Servant Leadership When Burned Out

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• Carrying everyone else’s anxiety and conflict has hollowed me out
• Everything still routes through me
• I act like every single thing has to be done by me, and I’m drowning
• Everything still flows through me
• Someone on my team is underperforming and I keep collapsing the two things together

Practices that may help

1. Build sanctuaries for renewal outside the system
   Maintain relationships and practices outside the organizational system that restore perspective and capacity.
   Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical
2. Build people’s autonomy and capability
   The aim is people who need you less over time, not more.
   Servant Leadership, Made Practical
3. Outsource or delegate to keep a burner lit without your direct fuel
   Find ways to maintain a domain’s floor through systems, others, or automation rather than your direct effort.
   Four Burners Theory: Making Peace With Trade-Offs
4. Distribute leadership rather than centralizing it
   Develop leadership capacity throughout the team, not just in the designated leader.
   Transformational Leadership, Made Practical
5. Lead with empathy and acceptance
   Accept the person fully even while refusing to accept poor performance.
   Servant Leadership, Made Practical
6. Regulate the level of distress in the system
   Keep productive pressure high enough to motivate change but low enough to prevent shutdown.
   Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical
7. Give the work back without abandoning people
   Resist taking ownership of problems that belong to the people facing the adaptive challenge.
   Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical
8. Servant Leadership, Made Practical
   Servant leadership, a philosophy coined by Robert Greenleaf, inverts the usual order: the leader exists to serve the growth and well-being of their people first, and authority follows from that service rather than from position. It began as a practitioner philosophy; a body of mostly observational research now links it to engagement and performance, though causal evidence remains limited.
9. Watch for the accidental diminisher patterns in yourself
   Most Diminishers are not aware they are diminishing — the behaviors that made them effective as individuals undermine them as leaders.
   Multipliers: How Leaders Amplify the Intelligence Around Them
10. Put the growth of others first
    Start from "how do I help this person succeed?" rather than "how do they help me succeed?"
    Servant Leadership, Made Practical

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