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[quote=Anonymous]I have had an employee on my team for 5+ yrs who just seems burnt out.  I’m not surprised as we have thrown a lot of work at her, and she has always been the one who was willing to stay late, come in early, and always get it done no matter how crazy the deadline -- with little complaining.  She now seems like she just can’t/doesn’t want to anymore -- she’ll still do the work but not with the same speed and energy and with far more complaining.  I know the work doesn’t challenge her anymore because after 5 yrs of this, she really has seen the full spectrum of what we do, so I don’t think she’s as eager for the experience anymore.

As a manager, I think I need to talk with her, but I don’t really know how.  Previously, if I had even suggested that she needed a vacation/break etc. she would take offense -- she’s a type A person who prides herself on being all things to all people (and this is her first real job though she has been w/ us for a long while now so she’s late 20s/early 30s).  How do you approach this? I want to approach it because I feel like she’s getting to the point where she’ll just walk out the door one day -- we’d lose a talented employee just because we weren’t willing to have a discussion.  We are reasonably close and do talk about careers, family, friends, weekends etc. so it’s not like this is the first time I’d be going out to lunch or pulling her into my office for a meeting -- I just don’t know how to start.  WWYD?[/quote]

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