Job Burnout with Hassan Kahar

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Job Burnout with Hassan Kahar

Main points:

• Need to differentiate between stress, burnout and depression.
  
• Continuous stress without breaking the cycle leads to burnout.
  
• Burnout has 3 main symptoms: Exhaustion (Lack of Energy), Cynicism (Lack of enthusiasm) and Reduce Self Efficacy (Lack of self confidence).
  
• Burnout stages: Honeymoon, awakening, chronic stress (living with stress), burnout, depression
  
• Tips to avoid burnout: Limiting social media, food & exercises & sleep, practicing gratitude, setting boundaries at work, take breaks, have a support system (Mentor, Coach, Friends, Therapist...etc).
  
• Sources of burnout at work: workload, lack of contribution, lack of reward, toxic community, lack of fairness, your Job and organization not matching your values.
  
• Actions to take when burned-out: leave your job, develop myself to avoid stress, sharing issue with manager, threaten to leave, track progress, identify root cause.
  

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