Are You a "Burned Out" Manager?

Responsibility for both the department’s deliverables and managing employees can be challenging for any manager. Since you need to guide your team’s well-being, make sure you are taking care of yourself.

Copyright (c) 2008 Pat Brill

Responsibility for both the department’s deliverables and managing employees can be challenging for any manager. Since you need to guide your team’s well-being, make sure you are taking care of yourself.

Managers don’t always want to acknowledge their own burnout feelings, yet all employees, no matter what role they play in the company, are potential candidates for “burnout.”

How Much of You is Enough?

At what point do the expectations that others have for you become ‘too much?’ Who gets to schedule your energy anyway? Can you draw the line between too much and enough? A Master Certified Coach gives you some tips for the ‘how’ of it.

Could you picture your partner spending his/her day focusing all of his personal energy on you? He’d be continuously looking for feedback. He’d have set enormously high expectations for caring for you, sacrificing his own needs to care for you. does this sound exciting to you? It might work for a while, but in the long run, you’d fet bored and he’d crash from exhaustion.

The Hidden Secret to Manage Your Workload and Reduce Your Stress — That Nobody Talks About

Is your career wearing you out? Are you too tired to enjoy your family and friends on the weekends, or what little part of the weekend you have? Well, I have a secret to share.

Copyright (c) 2008 Jennifer Selby Long

Is your career wearing you out? Are you too tired to enjoy your family and friends on the weekends, or what little part of the weekend you have? Well, I have a secret to share about the blind spot that just might have got you there. It certainly was mine. The secret is this: Your job is only part of your workload. You’re not tired because of your career. You’re tired because of everything else.

Clinical depression and its symptoms

According to the definitions of most medical, psychological and psychiatric bodies, there is a commonality in the diagnosis of depression.

Most depression tests have a very similar framework. Almost without exception, clinical depression will be diagnosed if a certain number of feelings, that are signs of depression, are present over a certain period of time.

Current theory suggests those clinical depression results from complex interactions between brain chemicals and hormones that influence a person’s energy level, feelings, sleeping and eating habits. These chemical interactions are linked to many complex causes–a person’s family history of illness, biochemical and psychological make-up, prolonged stress, and traumatic life crisis such as death of a loved one, job loss, or divorce. Following are some of the common symptoms of clinical depression:

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