Preventing Burnout E-Book

50MINUTES

• Herausgeber: 50Minutes.com
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Serie: Coaching
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 26

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Ready to take your career to the next level? Find out everything you need to know about preventing burnout with this practical guide.

Many professionals in today’s business world find themselves working increasingly long hours and even taking work home with them as they try to manage their workloads and advance in their careers. However, this commitment to their jobs can lead to stress, fatigue and ultimately burnout, which has severe and long-lasting consequences. It is therefore imperative to take control of your work-life balance before reaching this stage.

In 50 minutes you will be able to:
• Identify the warning signs of burnout in yourself and others
• Understand the personal, work-based and emotional risk factors for professional exhaustion
• Take steps to prevent the development of burnout before it takes hold

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Leseprobe

Burnout

Issue: how can I avoid getting trapped in the vicious circle of burnout?Uses: this guide will help you to put things in perspective and manage your emotions better, know and stick to your limits, and be kinder to yourself and slow down.Professional context: health and wellbeing at work.FAQs:How can burnout be recognised?Stress or burnout: when should you worry?Are there any high-risk professions?Is burnout an illness?Is burnout recognised by the law?Is burnout contagious?Who should you talk to if you are experiencing burnout?

Work is more than just your way of making a living: it’s your passion! Every day, you throw everything you have into accomplishing your tasks, delivering quality and reaching, or even surpassing, your goals. You are conscientious, a perfectionist even, and you aim for recognition at all costs. With this in mind, you never object to taking on work and don’t think twice about working overtime. The first to arrive and the last to leave, you tend to take work home “just to finish off”. You push yourself to the limit and are brimming with motivation and energy. You always do more, but could you be doing too much?

Over time, your relaxation time gets shorter and evenings with family and friends become rare. Your mind is constantly on work, leaving no space for your private life. And deep down inside you, there is a ball of stress that never goes away. Your tired, worn-out body can no longer keep up with this hellish pace. Faced with overload, you are no longer up to the challenge: you make a string of mistakes, you have lost your taste for work and a feeling of failure overwhelms you, to the point that you lose all your self-esteem. The process began without warning, and you never saw it coming. You realise now but it is too late: burnout has taken hold of you.

How can you avoid getting to this point of no return? Learn to protect yourself, listen to your body and strike a balance. Spot the warning signs of burnout and identify risky behaviours before you lose control for good.

Burnout: the basics

What is burnout?

For more than a decade now, the media has been warning us about this scourge of modern times: burnout. The verb “to burn out” literally means “to become or cause to become worn out or inoperative” (Collins English Dictionary). As such, a person who is burnt out is so exhausted by their work that they can no longer function. They feel intense physical and psychological fatigue, resulting from a feeling of powerlessness and despair.

Burnout in literature

The concept of burnout is inspired by the aerospace industry. Originally, the term described a rocket which was running low on fuel and whose engine had overheated, putting it at risk of explosion.