Avoiding burnout
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The document discusses ways to avoid and prevent job burnout. It identifies warning signs of burnout like feelings of frustration and lack of motivation. It describes common stages of burnout from initial high energy to full exhaustion. Occupations most at risk include helping professionals, those under tight schedules or deadlines, and socially criticized roles. Suggested strategies to prevent burnout involve finding meaning in work, developing social support, building skills, managing stress, and gaining a sense of control over your work.
Avoiding burnout
- 2. Job Burnout: (Preventing Job Burnout, ISBN 1-56052-357-3) Impaired motivation to work resulting in a growing inability to mobilize interest and abilities. It is becoming more common in today’s complex and demanding society. Rarely is a person burned out at work, yet enthusiastic and energized at home.
- 3. Burnout Warning Signs: Feelings of frustration. Emotional outbursts. Sense of alienation. Newly acquired substandard performance. Increased use of drugs and alcohol. Lack of motivation. Inability to adapt to changes. Why bother, attitude. Connectivity
- 4. Stages of Burnout: You begin with boundless energy. Disillusionment and disappointment develop. Confused, you can’t quite put your finger on what’s wrong. Frustration and irritability set in. Full scale exhaustion and fatigue prevail.
- 5. Occupations Most Susceptible to Burnout: Helping professionals such as social workers, nurses, teachers, police officers. Those that require exacting attention such as air traffic controllers and pharmacists. Those that deal with life and death situations such as surgeons and the clergy. Those that require working under time schedules such as a television news crew. Those that require exact detail such as bookkeepers. Those that are socially criticized such as nuclear engineers.
- 6. Good Wins: When you do something That causes a positive action That is recognized and acknowledged.
- 7. Negative Wins: When a negative situation exists And you take action That makes the negative situation go away.
- 8. Sustaining Motivation: You must see a positive relationship between what you do and what happens to you. You must feel you can influence what happens to you. Empowerment
- 9. Positive Factor Induced Motivation: Working for: Fun. Challenge. Status or fame. Self respect. Praise. Positive motivators can achieve positive results.
- 10. Negative Factor Induced Motivation: Working to avoid: Debt. Job loss. Criticism. Loneliness. Boredom. Guilt. Negative motivators can achieve positive results.
- 11. De-motivating Work Situations: The critical boss = Cannot be pleased no matter what effort you put forth. Lack of recognition = Good work often goes unnoticed. Inadequate pay = Particularly when others that perform at a lower level are paid the same. Under-employment = You’re trained for a higher level than you work at. Ambiguity = If you do not know what is expected, it is difficult to feel confident that you are doing the right thing the right way. Lack of information.
- 12. De-motivating Work Situations Continued: Lack of clear goals. Tasks without end. Impossible tasks = Impossible expectations. No-win situations = Incompatible demands, values conflict. Bureaucracy. Work overload. Skill deficit. Meaninglessness. Lack of authority.
- 13. When you feel you have no control over the events in your life, motivation to continue performing decreases and burnout results.
- 14. Paths to Personal Power: Managing yourself. Breaking big jobs into manageable steps. Patting yourself on the back. Goals. Must be attainable. Must be measurable. Must be time framed. Must be written down. Self contracts.
- 15. Paths to Personal Power Continued: Manage stress. Building social support = Research shows that people with close emotional and social ties are physically and mentally healthier and live longer. Skill building = develops self confidence. Decision making. Listening. Information gathering. Team playing. Delegating
- 16. Paths to Personal Power Continued: Skill building continued: Public speaking. Technical skills. Negotiating. Supervising. Mentoring. Leading meetings. Goal setting. Time management. Writing. Mediating.
- 17. Paths to Personal Power Continued: Tailoring the job = Can I re-engineer the job. Changing jobs. Detached concern = Letting go! Play to win but don’t insist on winning. Don’t dwell on past problems or worry about the future. Live in the present moment. Be flexible. Learn to laugh.
- 18. Powerless Thought: Powerful Thought: I hate cold weather. I look forward to ice skating. I have no friends. Becoming a Big Brother allowed me to: My clothes don’t fit me. I made friends at the fitness center. I have less skills than my colleagues. Night classes have helped me to be able to: My personal debt exceeds my income. Debt reduction counseling has allowed me to gain control of my finances.