Managing Burnout & Balance

Tired Of Feeling Exhausted All The Time?
Workplace Stress & Burnout: How To Recover & Find Your Footing Again
Here’s What’s Going On When You Are Burning Out
It Has Deeper Roots Than You May Think…
The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes burnout as an “occupational phenomenon” resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. It’s caused by your organization and the more of these factors at play in the career, the more likely you are to experience burnout. They include:
- Work Overload - Either too much, too intense or both.
- Lack of Control - Are you micromanaged?
- Insufficient Reward - Both extrinsic — money, prestige, and security — and intrinsic — doing work you enjoy with respected colleagues and building expertise — rewards.
- Breakdown of Community - Your sense of belonging is gone.
- Absence of Fairness - Trust, openness and respect have disappeared and incivility has crept into your workplace
- Conflicting Values - Are you finding that you compromise one or more of your values to continue receiving a paycheck?
How Career Coaching Can Help
A career coach can help you develop a strategy that puts you in charge of your career. Even though burnout is caused by the organization, you’ll want to recognize the signs to avoid it, and if you’re already experiencing it, devise ways to build resiliency and protect yourself from its damaging effects. It is only through awareness, acceptance and a desire to change course that you can have more control over how you spend your time, and stop burnout before it stops you.


Developing your skills
Clarifying your boundaries, both to yourself and those around you, is a skill. It’s the skill of simply saying “no.” Clarifying your goals, values and vision for your life and career is important. This will help you to determine whether to stay, but with a newfound sense of purpose, or take your skill set elsewhere.

Growing your confidence
Learning to say “no” to being too available and gaining more control over your daily life and career will give you the resiliency and confidence to protect yourself from burnout and to excel in your goals.

Developing executive presence
Once you’ve developed strategies to prevent or recover from burnout, developing executive presence is a logical next step. Often, it’s fine-tuning these skills that can help you attain the competitive edge you’re looking for in your career. You can read more about my approach to executive presence here

You Don’t Have To Do It Alone. Often A Few Career Coaching Sessions Is All That’s Required To Change Your Future
Learn more about career coaching
A career coach will help you explore and define your professional career-related goals.
Through gaining clarity on your personal values, mission and vision, and how they align with your current work situation, you will discover a personal career path to pursue.
Learn more about what career coaching can do for you here
Want Help Now? Contact Me For A Consultation To Explore Working Together
You’re welcome to book a Discovery Call on my calendar. This is informal and absolutely free of any obligation whatsoever. It’s an opportunity to get to know one another so I can gain an understanding of where you are and where you’d like to be.
In the meantime, take this short quiz to see whether your work and life are in balaance.