BLACKPOOL HEALTH LIBRARY: At the Heart of Quality Information on the Fylde Coast! Management Update from your Library: a collection of interesting articles focusing on leadership and management.
13 Warning Signs That You’re Heading for Burnout – and How to Avoid It!
Burnout is a mixture of physical and mental exhaustion with your organization or career. It can lead to a dramatic fall in your performance, and can seriously impact your health and well-being.
As this article points out, what makes burnout so poignant as well as painful is that it mainly strikes people who are highly committed to their work: you can only burn out if you have been “alight” in the first place.
Recovering From Burnout: Finding Passion for Your Role Again
Burnout is a state of physical and emotional exhaustion. It can occur when you experience long-term stress in your job, or when you have worked in a physically or emotionally draining role for a long time. You can also experience burnout when your efforts at work have failed to produce the results that you expected, and you feel deeply disillusioned as a result.
Burnout doesn’t go away on its own; rather, it will get worse unless you address the underlying issues causing it. If you ignore burnout, it will only cause you further harm down the line, so it’s important that you begin recovery as soon as possible.
Recovery from burnout is a slow journey; not a quick dash to some imaginary finish line. You need time and space to recuperate, so don’t rush through this process.
The recovery strategies that we’ve outlined in this article are all useful in different situations. Some of these strategies will work for you, while others won’t, so find a balance of strategies and best practices that feels right to you.
8 Ways Leaders Delegate Successfully
There is mounting evidence that delegating more responsibility for decision making increases productivity, morale, and commitment, all of which impact company culture. A 2015 Gallup study of the entrepreneurial talents of 143 CEOs on the Inc. 500 list showed that companies run by executives who effectively delegate authority grow faster, generate more revenue, and create more jobs.
According to John C. Maxwell, author of Developing the Leaders Around You, “If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.”
Yet, for many leaders, delegating feels like something they know they should do, but don’t do…
Are You Pursuing Your Vision of Career Success — or Someone Else’s?
You’ve checked all the boxes. You’ve graduated from the right college, held the right internship, flourished in the right graduate program, and landed the right job at the right company. You’ve followed the path that everyone else told you would be the one to lead to success — to your dream job — only to find that your dream job doesn’t feel so dreamy after all.
The good news is that you aren’t alone. Across each generation, the realization that success hasn’t brought with it the expected happiness has created a zeitgeist moment where conversations about purpose, fulfilment, and satisfaction reign supreme.
If you’ve determined that your dream job is not really all that dreamy, it may be that you have done all the right things along everyone else’s path to everyone else’s definition of success, only to realize when you’ve moved into a new age or life stage that the great life you built was meant for someone else…
Great Mentors Focus on the Whole Person, Not Just Their Career
Aspiring leaders need more and better mentoring than they’re getting today. There is remarkably little analysis or advice on how to mentor the whole person, extending beyond the career to include discussions about behaviour, values, relationships, parenting, finances, and even spiritual life. Mentoring the whole person takes more effort, more time, and more thought. In this article we discuss practices for doing it well…
What Is Personal Empowerment? Taking Charge of Your Life and Career
Do you ever feel that you have no control over your life and work? Perhaps you feel dominated by your colleagues, or overwhelmed by the demands of your job. Or is your time outside the workplace spent tending to other people’s needs at the expense of your own?
This sense of powerlessness can be immensely frustrating. But, no matter what personal challenges you face, you can always make choices that give you back control. Understanding this is the essence of self-empowerment.
In this article, we examine personal empowerment in more detail, and explore the tools and techniques that you can use to achieve it.
Made a Mistake? Own It, Learn From It, and Move On!
We all make mistakes. The important thing is how we react to them. An honest error will likely be forgiven if you admit to it and learn from it.
And ensuring that you put what you learn into practice can help you to forgive yourself, too. You can explore five practical steps for doing this with our article, “How to Learn From Your Mistakes”.
Celebrating Achievement. How to Help Your Team Feel Good
Acknowledging and applauding success is a great way to motivate your team.
In this article, we’ll explore the importance of acknowledging and applauding success. We’ll examine some of the psychology behind reward and recognition, and we’ll outline a range of ways you can celebrate achievement.
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