Overcoming Job Burnout
How Renew Enthusiasm For Work
Dr. Beverly Potter
 ens
of millions of workers in the United States suffer
from feelings of powerlessness in the workplace which
can destroy motivation and enthusiasm for work.
Burnout is especially prevalent in this era of
restructuring and job displacement.
 Overcoming Job
Burnout tells how to renew enthusiasm for
work by developing personal power. This upbeat guide
shows how to recognize job burnout and overcome it
through a progression of positive changes, including
setting goals, managing stress, building a strong
social support system, modifying the job, developing
needed skills, changing jobs, modifying powerless
thinking and developing detached concern.
Overcoming Job
Burnout provides important information
that managers, counselors, and individuals can utilize
daily to eliminate feelings of powerlessness on the
job.
This new edition is a
complete rewrite and update of the 1980 classic and
includes the "Burnout Potential Inventory."
"Without work, all life goes
rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles
and dies."
-Albert Camus
Many people experience
work as drudgery and their jobs as painfully empty. A
"soulless" work day can leave people feeling drained
and "used up," with little desire to return to that
job the next day. Soulless work consumes enthusiasm
until motivation goes dry. Skills and knowledge
remains intact, but the will to perform - the spirit
within - is diminished. Smothering the will, burnout
is a malaise of the spirit. In the process motivation,
that mysterious force that gets us moving is damaged -
in the worst cases, even destroyed.
No one is immune
from job burnout. Any person, in any
profession, at any level can become a candidate for
job burnout.
What is the Burnout Potential of
your job?
Audio
interview
with Docpotter
Docpotter's site
- crammed with useful info
Brazil Burnout article
- in Portugese
Battle
with Burnout
Beating
Job Burnout in Healthcare
Staying
Motivated at Work - Women
Fried
You're
the Boss - Entrepreneurs
Beware
of Burnout - CPAs
Find
a Low-Stress Position in Fund Raising
Why
Physical Therapists Burnout
Manage
By the Book to Avoid Burnout - Law Journal
(pdf)
Police
Burnout
Overcoming
Executive Burnout
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