Managing Burnout & Balance

Tired Of Feeling Exhausted All The Time?

If you find that even sleeping in on the weekends and taking extra naps is doing nothing to help you feel rejuvenated again, you may want to watch for signs of job-related burnout.

Workplace Stress & Burnout: How To Recover & Find Your Footing Again

Burnout is a buzzword we often toss around without fully understanding the depth of its meaning. Burnout is a state of chronic stress that leads to physical and emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and detachment, as well as feelings of ineffectiveness and lack of accomplishment.

Here’s What’s Going On When You Are Burning Out

You may have many years’ experience in your career and a high level of confidence. Complicated procedures and on-the-spot-decision-making? You can do these in your sleep…until one day you can’t. You second-guess yourself and have trouble concentrating. You find yourself getting snippy and cynical with your colleagues. Burnout isn’t something you overcome just by taking a vacation. You’re out of balance. Your life and career need a serious recalibration.

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.

You Don’t Have To Do It Alone. Often A Few Career Coaching Sessions Is All That’s Required To Change Your Future

While coaches don’t diagnose, I have personally experienced severe burnout and recovered from it. I would never have been able to do it without the massive support of my wife, my friends and family and the professional services of a physician, naturopath, massage therapist, counselor and coach. If you haven’t reached the point of burnout yet, but recognize the signs, connecting for a few sessions with a career coach can help you get the clarity and establish the boundaries you need to prevent a full blown burnout.

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.