839: The 12 Stages of Burnout: How to Identify and Recover from Yours with Hamza Khan
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 13 February 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Hamza Khan provides an in-depth look into how professionals burnout—and offers powerful advice for recovery and prevention.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The 12 phases of burnout.
2) The D.R.A.G.O.N. framework for beating burnout.
3) How to set boundaries without ruining relationships.
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— ABOUT HAMZA —
Hamza Khan is the Co-Founder of SkillsCamp, a leading soft skills training company, a top-ranked university educator, and respected thought leader. He is a TEDx speaker whose talk, “Stop Managing, Start Leading” has been viewed nearly two million times. His insights have been featured in notable media outlets such as VICE, Business Insider, and The Globe and Mail. Hamza is trusted by the world’s preeminent organizations to enhance human potential and optimize performance. His clients include the likes of Microsoft, PepsiCo, LinkedIn, Deloitte, Salesforce, TikTok, and over 100 colleges and universities.
• Book: The Burnout Gamble: Achieve More by Beating Burnout and Building Resilience
• TEDx Talk: Stop Managing, Start Leading | Hamza Khan | TEDxRyersonU
• TEDx Talk: The Burnout Gamble | Hamza Khan | TEDxUTSC
• Website: HamzaK.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Theory: The Dark Triad of Personality Traits
• Theory: D Factor of Personality
• Book: Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America by James Green
• Past episode: 710: How to Regain Control of Your Time, Energy, and Priorities with Carey Nieuwhof
• Past episode: 832: How to Restore Yourself from Burnout with Dr. Christina Maslach
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.6 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.2 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McIdoz. |
| 0:16.1 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 839 with Hamza Khan. |
| 0:23.3 | Hamza is talking burnout from having lived it, recovered from it, identifying very precisely |
| 0:29.7 | and specifically different stages and how you can manage it, drawn from the research |
| 0:34.9 | and his own powerful story, so much good stuff. |
| 0:38.2 | You'll learn one, the 12 phases of burnout, two, the Dragon, that's an acronym, the R-A-G-O-N, |
| 0:43.9 | if you will, framework for beating burnout, and three, how to set boundaries without ruining |
| 0:48.4 | relationships. |
| 0:49.4 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that |
| 0:52.0 | we've referenced, please pace a visit over at awesometyourjob.com slash EP839. |
| 0:57.3 | And this is an episode I would recommend reading those gold nuggets. |
| 1:01.0 | Each episode we send out to email boxes, a quick summary write-up of the actual wisdom |
| 1:07.2 | the guest shares. |
| 1:08.2 | So this one's particularly nice if there's 12 stages of burnout and then the Dragon, acronym, |
| 1:13.7 | that's all written in a very easy to access way. |
| 1:16.4 | That's the gold nuggets. |
| 1:17.4 | And when you sign up, you also get access to the whole vaults of all of these summaries, |
| 1:20.8 | 839 of them. |
| 1:21.8 | Anyway, that's the gold nuggets at awesometyourjob.com. |
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