An intern at Novell my first manager told me stories of his experiences with burn-out as an intern for\u00a0IBM. He loved his work and put in extreme hours. Then one day couldn’t put his hands on a keyboard.<\/p>\n
Allison Davis’ article\u00a0How to Keep You and Your Team from Burning Out<\/a>\u00a0gives 6 actionable recommendations for protecting your team.<\/p>\n I’ve experienced burn out. Coworkers I respect have, too. Yet, I hesitate to write about it. It’s squishy. But it is<\/em> real.<\/p>\n I’m not alone. At NGConf Igor Minar (Angular core team) spoke tentatively about his own struggles with burnout<\/a>. His talk about mindfulness<\/a> came just after my own exposure to it in a lecture series on the workings of the brain<\/a>. Mindfulness is a great tool that studies have shown effective at managing stress and improving mental wellbeing.<\/p>\n Read Davis’ article.<\/p>\n My quick advice\u00a0is:<\/p>\n Remove heroics\u00a0from your list of options<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Get it done in normal time with normal effort. Don’t do heroics. Don’t ask for\u00a0it from your team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An intern at Novell my first manager told me stories of his experiences with burn-out as an intern for\u00a0IBM. He loved his work and put in extreme hours. Then one day couldn’t put his hands on a keyboard. Allison Davis’ article\u00a0How to Keep You and Your Team from Burning Out\u00a0gives 6 actionable recommendations for protecting… Continue reading Keeping Your Team from Burnout<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[36,37],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-executive","tag-burnout","tag-team-building","post_format-post-format-link","wow fadeInUp","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}