Short: 5 Steps To Take When Experiencing Burnout
During our AMA with Evie Brockwell she outlined 5 steps to take when experiencing burnout. She shares them here:
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- Take a Full Day Off:
- Block out a whole day by informing your team you are unavailable.
- Assess Your Workload:
- Write down everything happening in your work world.
- Identify what’s stressing you, what’s important, and what’s not.
- Delegate or Eliminate Tasks:
- Determine which tasks can be delegated or eliminated.
- Create a plan to manage the workload more effectively.
- Reflect on the Impact:
- Evaluate the effect of being offline for a day.
- Note that it did not cause significant problems or backlog.
- Set Better Boundaries:
- Use the insights gained to establish clearer boundaries.
- Ensure ongoing management of workload to prevent future burnout.
5 Steps To Take When Experiencing Burnout
Evie: [00:00:00] So from my point of view, what I did was I just blocked a whole day out of my diary. And I told my manager I was sick. I told my whole team I was off and I didn’t just take the day off and do nothing. I was like, okay, what is going on? Let me write down everything that’s happening in my work world right now and work out like what’s stressing me out, what’s important, what’s not important.
What can I perhaps delegate, what actually needs to be done and made a whole list and a whole plan of these things. And by the end of it, I basically worked out exactly what I could strip from my plate. And that exercise was amazing for two things. One, it obviously helped clear a load of my mental load.
And two, it was the first time that I realized that me going offline for a full day and telling people that I wasn’t available didn’t cause any problems. I didn’t have that much more to catch up with when I got back. So it was a great learning for me to then be able to set better boundaries going forwards.
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