Staff burnout, recruiting, retention, stigma, morale and burnout, are just a few of these problems. All of these can be considered using the CBT map image below. Why?
Because all of these areas involve beliefs, values, attitudes, etc. Employees are affected by each of these areas. The CBT map is their GPS.
Look at each of the cognitive categories as links in a chain. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
This is true of the chain of command too. Administration members and the subordinates are all links of the chain. It should work like a symphony.
When there is too much discord the harmony suffers. What causes the discord and morale problems?
A disconnect between administration and the subordinates affects rapport, trust, burnout and retention. Recruiting qualified staff is difficult enough. Poor retention is costly.
We can look at employees as links and ‘parts’ of the organization. The employees are made up of ‘parts’ too. These ‘parts’ also have beliefs and values. Consider the employee. She has a partner part, a parent part, an employee part, role model part, a counselor part, a therapist part.
Each of these parts has needs, wants and fears, just like the whole person has. Imagine when there is a ‘parts conflict’ within the employee.
There is always at least one ‘part’ that will object.
All of the other employees agree that X would be a good idea. But one link, one employee has objections to X. Why? What’s the fear? There is probably a positive intent or secondary gain of avoiding that which is feared. What is it?
Is it a trauma-based fear? Is it imposter syndrome? What is the limiting belief that is driving the probably irrational fear?
Administrators and employees can benefit by learning how to do a Parts Reframe.
That’s where Belief Eye Movement Therapy, BEMT can add to the quality and outcome of treatment. There will be no long-term behavior changes unless you change limiting, permission-granting, core beliefs first.
Everyone has limiting beliefs about something important in their lives.
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