From students to senior executives, almost anyone can experience burnout. Although we can never totally eliminate stress in our lives, burnout CAN be prevented. By learning how to recognize the problem as well as its causes and symptoms, individuals and organizations can learn how to effectively manage stress and prevent burnout.
About stress and burnout
- Burnout doesn't happen overnight and symptoms can take months to surface.
- When every day at work is a bad day, you may be facing burnout
- The incidence of job burnout has reached epidemic proportions.
- Stress disability claims have gone up by 500% making it the #1 cause of short and long term absence.
- Workplace burnout isn’t the same as workplace stress. When you’re stressed, you care too much, but when you’re burned out, you don’t see any hope of improvement
What can be done to prevent burnout?
Recognize and acknowledge that burnout can, does, and will happen.
Organizations must let their executives, managers, and employees know that they recognize and care about preventing burnout.
How? One of the most effective measures against burnout is offering the services of an expert who can lead prevention programs, management training courses, and workshops.
Classic symptoms of burnout:
- depleted physical energy
- emotional exhaustion
- less investment in interpersonal relationships
- increased absenteeism and inefficiency at work
- lowered immunity to illness and health problems
- increasingly pessimistic outlook
- addictive resolutions
Dr. Sabongui’s Executive Burnout Recovery & Prevention Program
Dr. Amir Georges Sabongui holds a PhD in psychology and specializes in Stress and Burnout Prevention and Leadership Training. He provides corporate leadership development, directs crisis and conflict interventions, and facilitates training workshops on a variety of topics. His skills training seminars and interventions are designed to improve the performance of individuals, and thus, organizations. Participants learn more about the effects of stress, develop healthy coping strategies, and leave with a personalized action plan.
Dr. Sabongui has helped CEOs, senior executives, managers, and professionals develop the necessary skills and abilities to better face work and life. Clients include Alcan Inc., Bell Canada, CBC, Fairmont Hotel, Rogers, Sears, and more. He also works with professionals on a personal one-to-one basis.
