Navigating Change Without Burning Out

Workshop Overview

Change is constant in today’s workplace, and navigating it without burning out requires intention and resilience. In this interactive lab for Leadership Lab: Personal Leadership, we’ll explore the personal impact of ongoing change and how to stay grounded and effective even as priorities shift around us. 

Together, we’ll reflect on how change shows up in our day-to-day work, recognize early signs of burnout, and share practical strategies for creating personal stability, setting boundaries, and staying focused in times of uncertainty. Through self-reflection and peer conversation, participants will leave with tools to help them respond to change with clarity, care, and purpose – while protecting their own wellbeing. 

Workshop Framework

Leadership Lab: Personal Leadership offers a comfortable and supportive space for individual contributors and project leads at the University to co-create an informal peer community. Using the Circles of Influence Framework to guide the conversation, participants will reflect on their leadership style and practices, identify where their control and influence lie with respect to the session’s specified theme, and learn from each other how to approach various challenges.   

In a work environment as big as the University of Waterloo, we want to offer intentional space for employees in non-supervisory roles to come together to collectively think through how broader University culture and direction impacts them. Leadership Lab: Personal Leadership aims to bring individual contributors together to explore how they can lead themselves, and others by example, all while receiving and providing each other with compassionate care. 

Each meeting will focus on a specific theme connected to the university community.

Intended Audience

Staff members who do NOT have direct supervisory reports. 

Please note: This offering has been designed to be audience-specific. Participants WITH direct supervisory responsibility are encouraged to register for the Leadership Lab: People Leadership offerings.    

Format

In-person workshop

Facilitator(s)

Laura Maple, OHD, Learning and Development Specialist - Employee Development

If you have any questions or accessibility needs Laura should be informed of prior to you enrolling and/or attending the workshop, please email Laura at lcmaple@uwaterloo.ca .