🧯 Burnout Prevention, Training Needs Template, The Supervisor Shortage - Jul 14, 2025

Howdy, HR Champs! 💪 Burnout’s not in your job description. As July marks Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, it’s a timely nudge to prioritize well-being—for your team and yourself.

On today’s agenda:

🧯 Burnout prevention

🤩 Training needs analysis template

🗣️ The supervisor shortage

⭐ A review of Visier

THE HR SPOTLIGHT

🧯 From Slump to Spark: Burnout Prevention & Wellness Reset

The situation: Between post-Fourth-of-July blues and rising temps, employees hit a hard wall in July. Energy dips, motivation slides, and yes—burnout quietly creeps in. According to Moodle’s 2025 report, as much as two-thirds or 66％ of American employees are experiencing burnout for different reasons. For minority workers, this strain is often compounded—highlighted during Minority Mental Health Awareness Month.

🛠️ What HR can do: It’s time for a burnout reset. Here’s how to recharge your people and protect your retention rates:

• Promote actual time off. Model it from the top—managers taking PTO signals it's okay to disconnect.

• Normalize mental health tools. Encourage the use of apps like Calm or Headspace (discounts or reimbursements, anyone?).

• Create recharge zones. Even a quiet room with comfy seating = instantaneous morale lift.

• Train managers to spot burnout. Tired eyes, short replies, missed deadlines—don’t ignore the signs.

Don’t wait for Self-Care Day on July 24 to make a move. Your team’s summer sanity depends on it.

👉 Recharge your workforce with these Wellness Activities »

TOGETHER WITH iSPRING

Assess Employee Training Needs Accurately with our Ready-Made Template

Launching online training programs always demands serious investments, so the goal of needs assessments is to make sure that learning can solve the problem and give a credible estimate of whether these investments will pay off.

Download a free Training Needs Analysis Template packed with everything HR teams may need to implement meaningful and result-driven training programs. Learn how to:

✅ Analyze the current situation
✅ Identify business and performance goals
✅ Interview employees and stakeholders
✅ Conduct knowledge and skill gap analysis

⚓ Navy Embraces Online Training - DVIDS

• What’s unfolding: The U.S. Navy is leveling up HR skills with a virtual Enhanced HR Training Course designed to help HR professionals support sailors’ careers more effectively. 

• Why it matters: If the Navy can modernize HR at scale, so can the private sector. HR leaders should evaluate whether their own training systems are equally agile and accessible.

😟 Cost of Low Empathy in the Workplace - Economic Times

👥 Digital Employees Are Coming - Forbes

COMPLIANCE CORNER

• What’s unfolding: NYC is set to require app-based grocery delivery workers to earn at least $27.46/hr, a big jump from current rates. The move aims to counter low wages and algorithmic exploitation in gig work.

• HR implications: Employers relying on gig platforms must monitor rising pay standards, as cost increases may ripple into contracts and benefits. HR leaders should audit any outsourced vendor practices to prevent issues.

• What’s unfolding: The Supreme Court is weighing in on agency leaders’ authority to implement workforce reductions, potentially restricting executive power over furloughs and layoffs without legislative blessing.

• HR implications: Public-sector HR must brace for a precedent that limits leadership’s ability to adjust staffing levels and budgets on short notice. HR pros should proactively review policy flexibility and contingency plans.

• What’s unfolding: Missouri Gov. Kehoe signed the legislation repealing a mandated paid sick leave and inflation-adjusted minimum wage. The repeal takes effect Aug. 28, 2025.

• HR implications: Missouri HR teams should start communicating changes, revise handbooks, and consider offering equivalent voluntary benefits to mitigate morale and retention risks.

HR TECH WATCH

A Review of Visier’s Workforce Edition: People-First Planning

Why we selected it: A top-rated people analytics tool, Visier’s Workforce Planning is beloved by HR pros for its predictive power and seamless data integration. 

Key features:

1. Collaborative Planning – Align HR, finance & business stakeholders in live plan creation. 

2. Predictive Scenario Modeling – Forecast attrition, hires, budgets and test “what-if” scenarios. 

3. Real-Time Tracking – Monitor actual headcount, costs, and variance vs plan.

4. Cross-System Integration – Pulls data from HRIS and financial systems into one unified view. 

HRAddict rating: ★★★★☆ 4.5
A strategic powerhouse for connecting people analytics to finance, Visier helps HR lead with data-driven agility.

This is an independent review using aggregated insights and publicly available data.

BREAKROOM

📬 Missed Friday’s issue on ‘HR Time-Savers’? Read it »