Everyone has periods when work piles up, the boss is ticked and stress is high. But there's a difference between a bad day or week at the office and burnout, according to Dr Micheal Leiter, who heads the center for Organization Reserach and Development at Acadia University in Nova Scotia and is the co-author of Banish Truth About Burnout. He identifies three components to burnout:
Your general well-being
Do you feel exhausted?
Your relationship with work.
Do you feel apathetic or that you can't concentrate, like you're "going through the motions?"
Your self-evaluation.
Do you doubt that you're doing important work and that you're good at it?
Having nay one of these feeling doesn't constitute burnout. The accumulation and frequency of symptoms should be a warning sign.
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