Brendan Reid is an accomplished career coach, author and executive. He shares leadership lessons and career advice on his blog, www.brendanreid.
com , and in his popular book, Stealing the Corner Office. I burned out. I burned out so hard.
I could feel it coming, I tried to stop it, but inevitably it happened. I became an extra-crispy, deep-fried, burnt out leader. It was a while ago, but I remember it like yesterday.
To the casual observer, I was still at the top of my game as a C-level executive for a multi-billion dollar company. But on the inside, I was frayed, weakened. Small things were getting to me.
Obstacles I would normally run through, seemed painful. I couldn’t shake off tough feedback or office conflict like I used to. I was out of gas, well before the finish line.
It took many years before I could appreciate the mistakes I made. That, in many ways, my burnout was my own doing. Had I known then what I know now, I may have been able to stop it.
At the very least, I could have managed it better than I did. If you’re starting to feel burned out at work, or if you’re already a little crispy and need some help, today’s article is for you. The burnout phenomenon is widespread in Canada.
No less than 35 per cent of us report burnout at work, according to a 2022 survey commissioned by Canada Life’s Workplace Strategies for Mental Health and conducted by Mental Health Research Canada. And, in industries like healthcare and finance, those numbers go way up. A full.