What To Do When You Feel Like A Failure But You Have To Perform At Work by Brent Roy Rhonda (not her real name), a senior manager in a large organization, felt her executive leadership was not hearing her. She believed she was “too in the weeds” in her communication and was not “strategically aligned” …
Job-Related Burnout: It Only Happens to the Disengaged and Other Myths by Brent Roy Whenever anyone asked whether I enjoyed my work, my common response, right up until the day I burned out was, “yea, I love it…I’m just freakin’ exhausted.” I didn’t think job-related burnout was real. To me, it was just some exhaustion …
3 Things You Must Stop Doing To Thrive In Today’s Burnout Culture by Brent Roy What must you stop doing to thrive in today’s burnout culture? I know what job-related burnout feels like. I’ve lived it myself, throughout 2018. It started almost like a mild out-of-body experience, I just wasn’t myself. I didn’t know what burnout was …
Recognizing Burnout: Seven Questions To Ask Yourself by Brent Roy Just before Christmas 2017, I hit an emotional wall. Physical and emotional exhaustion had taken its toll and I felt like I was having a minor version of an out-of-body experience, like a poorly-inked colour newspaper cartoon…part of me was just a little outside the …
Burnout Is Not Your Fault: How Your Workplace Causes It But Tries To Fix You by Brent Roy Burnout is not your fault, but its effects can still be devastating. Burnout is a state of chronic stress that leads to: – physical and emotional exhaustion – cynicism and detachment – feelings of ineffectiveness and lack of accomplishment. You needn’t blame …