{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Modern Manager","title":"47: Managing Stress and Avoiding Burnout","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1122,"description":"We all experience stress at work. Ideally, it’s short lived and easily manageable. When a heightened state of stress becomes the new normal, you may be on the way to burnout. While burnout is the extreme and typically rare case, it’s critical to notice when stress, frustration, overload and overwhelm are taking over. They’re the signs burnout may be coming.\r\n \r\nGet the free mini-guide with questions to help you identify stressors in your life and your team members’ lives.\r\n \r\nWhen you join the Modern Manager community, get the full guide with suggestions for how to manage stress, along with access to prior episode guides, guest bonuses and 30% off personality based coaching to help you better understand your preferences and learn new strategies to help you be a rockstar manager.\r\n \r\nWhen you join before midnight Eastern April 23, 2019, you are eligible to win a free coaching session with Amy Born, guest from episode 44: Manager as Coach.\r\n \r\nSubscribe to my newsletter to get episodes, articles and mini-guides delivered to your inbox. \r\n \r\nKey Takeaways:\r\n\r\nJob burnout is different from depression or other mental or emotional conditions.\r\nBurnout occurs when you are physically or emotionally exhausted from work in ways that lead to a sense of lack of accomplishment, reduced motivation, and loss of personal identity.\r\nBurnout is caused by a number of factors including (1) lack of control, (2) unclear expectations, (3) extremes of activity, (4) dysfunctional workplace dynamics, (5) lack of social support, and (6) work-life imbalance.\r\nLook for signs of stress, frustration, overload and overwhelm so you can manage stress and avoid burnout.\r\nFind a de-stressor that works for you which you can use ‘in the moment’ to regain a sense of calm.\r\nChange your situation or change the environment. Do something to get yourself out of the stressful situation if only for a few days.\r\nPlan a no-meetings day each month to catch up on work, have uninterrupted focus time or do some...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/vh03-o0OUKG7JnFjtDqtJmV0y385f5sQOifebswPa_E/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQzNjM5LzE2OTA1/Nzg4MDYtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}