The fact is we should not have to alleviate burnout. We should not experience this in the first place. The 6 root causes of burnout come from management. In the coming blog entries I’ll talk about how to stop burnout before it starts.
First: research proves that a caring company is a healthy and wealthy company. Per the book The Power of Wonder: The Extraordinary Emotion that Will Change the Way you Live Learn and Lead:
“Research out of Utrecht University found that those who felt they could be authentic at work had higher job satisfaction, engagement, motivation, and performance.”
Finding a job where we can show up as our true self is the key. Where are these jobs? I don’t think they’re in office work as corporate workplaces continue to exist today with management foisting unrealistic demands on employees.
The higher the overtime hours a person works the less productive they are. Sixty hour workweeks do not prove you’re working hard.
I’m going to review in here again The Pomodoro Technique which is a better way to get work done within the day.
The Power of Wonder states also: “Empathy has a bottom-line benefit, too. Another study found the top ten most empathetic companies showed twice the growth in value as that of the bottom ten and generated 50 percent more in earnings.”
I’m quoting from this book because I think you should buy the book and read it. The Power of Wonder should win a literary prize. I checked it out of the library. It was published this year so is current.
Coming up more on clocking burnout out of our lives before it takes over.
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