How do you help a burned out team member?

In my experience listening is an underestimated leadership skill - both in its impact and difficulty. Listening, real listening needs time, focus and consistency. It's essential that you want to create a connection. People feel it, if you don't mean it. And it needs practice. Believe me if I say that training sessions on active listening are hard work and well worth the time. Your team members will probe you, test you if you are really listening. And only open up stepwise. Especially if you are starting to show more interest. So take your time. Make knowing how your team members are doing a priority. Make it easy for them to talk about it.

Helping them adjust their way of viewing the task or tasks changes the cues that their brain is receiving, meaning making it a more embracing experience than a cue to stress experience

While a heavy workload and time constraints are well known contributors to burnout, it's important to keep in mind that other factors also play a significant role. Our society values performance and at work we belong because we perform and take over responsibilities. If we don't perform and are not accountable we are very likely to experience shame - we fear to be excluded, that we lost our value to the group. Shame is a powerful emotion and when dealing burnout it also happens that the whole team feels shame. For not seeing it, for not having acted early enough. I highly recommended working with the whole team on the topic and seek to change the context and work environment rather then trying to change the people.

Self care is one if the basics of self maintenance , strengthening our minds bond to our body , self care embeds self value building our self worth and Esteem without us realising it

In my professional counseling experience during covid, with a steady surge of clients managing isolation and trauma all at once, we therapists pulled out every tool possible, at a cost of risking burning ourselves out. Fortunately, we were resourced by helpful angels in the global community who offered various expertise, much emphasizing mindfulness meditation, cognitive therapy, active loving kindness strategies and body work. There is so much research behind self compassion and inhabiting your body as important steps to buffer the impact of stress and trauma. From a position of self love, we are then re-resourced to reach out to others for the emotional support that carries us all along when we are at our most vulnerable.

Yes. Please refer to professional help. In my humble opinion I would suggest getting help early. If you are concerned about burnout in your team - act now or swim later. If you are in a leading position, talk to HR if you can get training on active listening, leading healthy, well-being and thriving at work. Leadership styles make a difference. Check out positive Leadership for a science backed approach. Think about getting a team coach with a background in psychology and do some workshops about self-care and burnout prevention with the whole team. Burnout is also about work culture. You can also think about monitoring the subjective well-being of your team. Search "team health monitor" and you'll find plenty of inspiration.

There are various tools available to strengthen our minds resilience, offering training on changing one's perspective is the most powerful because you change what you communicate to your brain , when you do this , you change and have more control of your cues to burnout , stress and therefore build resilience