Job burnout is much more than just having a bad day at work. It’s much more than one meeting with your boss that you wish went better, or to have a campaign that you presented to a client, only for them not to be as impressed by it as you’d hoped they’d be, or other one-off negative experiences in the workplace.

Job burnout is about being completely disconnected from your work. It’s about dreading going to work in the morning. It’s about losing the passion you may have once had for your work.

Luckily, there are ways to deal with job burnout, and people who understand the issue and who want to help those who may be experiencing it engage with their work again.

In 2017, Josselyne Herman-Saccio of the Landmark Forum, personal and professional growth, training and development company, spoke with the hosts at Good Morning Texas about what exactly job burnout is. She explained that they’ve worked out five main symptoms of job burnout, and discussed how people can go about tackling the issue.

Landmark Forum’s Herman-Saccio identified the five symptoms of job burnout that every person should watch out for in their own habits regarding work as: repeated complaining, engaging in gossip often, being chronically late, being exhausted no matter how much sleep you get, and cutting corners or even lying about your performance at work.

Indeed, other experts agree that exhaustion and cynicism are significant parts of job burnout.

“So how do you go from being burnout, to being lit up at work?” Herman-Saccio continued during her appearance. She explained, they’ve developed three tools that people can use to turn their job burnout feelings around. Because being proactive is important to dealing with any problem, and not just in trying to make yourself enjoy your job again.

She explained that it’s important to reconnect, to align your integrity, and to “take action.”

Let’s break those down a little bit.

Reconnecting isn’t just about reconnecting with people at your office, but about reconnecting with what’s important to you in life, in your work, and rediscovering what your job helps you achieve. This can be as simple as your job giving you the ability to balance bills, or as grand as remembering the higher purpose that your work fulfills.

Aligning integrity has to do with committing to the tasks that you said you would do at work, and actually moving forward with them.

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The last guidance point that Herman-Saccio explained during her Good Morning Texas appearance — but that really, any expert on job burnout may suggest — is about taking action, and on striving for results. It’s all about not getting stuck in “complaint mode,”

A career coach also wrote a piece in 2017 about combating burnout, and noted that taking more breaks at work, and finding more hobbies outside of work can certainly help with the issue as well.

Melody Wilding wrote, if your job burnout has to do with not feeling like you’re being challenged enough at work, you can work on redefining your role or taking on other responsibilities, among other suggestions she had for handling job burnout.

In the end, the most important thing to do when you recognize that you have job burnout is to do something about it; or, if necessary, find a new role that will fulfill you. Life is too short to be burnt out at work all the time.

Published: 2018-09-27 17:55:31