# Resilient Leadership: Managing Stress and Burnout in Public Service (Self-Paced)

Canonical URL: <https://www.graduateschool.edu/courses/resilient-leadership-managing-stress-and-burnout-in-public-service-self-paced>

## Overview

Public service is meaningful, demanding, and increasingly stressful — and burned-out leaders create burned-out teams. This self-paced course gives government leaders practical tools to recognize and manage stress, sustain their own well-being, and lead in ways that protect rather than drain their teams. Participants explore the specific stressors of public-sector work, build personal resilience routines, and learn how to have honest conversations with employees who are struggling.

## What you'll learn

- Recognize the signs and stages of burnout in self and others
- Apply evidence-informed strategies to manage stress sustainably
- Lead in ways that reduce avoidable team stress
- Hold supportive, appropriate conversations with struggling employees
- Build a personal resilience plan grounded in public-service realities

## Curriculum

#### **Module 1: Stress and Burnout in Public Service**

- Why public-sector burnout looks different

- Stages of burnout and early warning signs

- Reflection: Where am I on the spectrum?

#### **Module 2: Personal Resilience Practices**

- Recovery, rest, and energy management

- Boundaries that hold up under mission pressure

- Activity: Design your weekly recovery routine

#### **Module 3: Leading a Resilient Team**

- Workload, clarity, and the leader's role in stress

- Modeling healthy behaviors without performing them

- Activity: Audit your team's stress drivers

#### **Module 4: Supportive Conversations with Employees**

- Noticing without diagnosing

- Referrals, EAP, and knowing your limits

- Practice: A check-in conversation script

#### **Module 5: Capstone — Your Resilience Plan**

- Capstone Activity: Personal + team resilience plan

- Closing: Sustaining the practice

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $649