Beating Burnout: Rachel Shackleton On The 5 Things You Should Do If You Are Experiencing Work Burnout

Listen to your body: Your body tells you when things are not going well by encouraging more sleep, random aches and pains for no apparent reason, sweet or salty food cravings and diminished mental capacity. These signals show long before burnout occurs. Learning to listen to your body is very important to hearing the messages and responding by taking your “foot off the pedal” to rejuvenate and replenish energy stores. You can only put a sticking plaster on the situation for so long and then if not making a change to the pressure you put yourself under, the body will take over, which is exactly what happened in my case.

Millions of Americans are returning back to work after being home during the pandemic. While this has been exciting for many, some are feeling burned out by their work. What do you do if you are feeling burned out by your work? How do you reverse it? How can you “get your mojo back”? What can employers do to help their staff reverse burnout?

In this interview series called “Beating Burnout: 5 Things You Should Do If You Are Experiencing Work Burnout,” we are talking to successful business leaders, HR leaders and mental health leaders who can share insights from their experience about how we can “Beat Burnout.”.

As a part of this series, I had the pleasure of interviewing Rachel Shackleton.

Rachel Shackleton, founder of Green Key Personal Development and Green Key Health is a business trainer and corporate health specialist. She has over 30 years training experience providing solutions in leadership, communication, customer excellence, and wellbeing in the workplace. Clients include JTI, Sperasoft-Key Words and Intermedia.

Thank you so much for joining us in this interview series! Before we dive into the main focus of our…