How To Talk To Your Boss (If You’re Stressed Out At Work)

One small personal success story

Sometimes work seems to get out of control — Pixabay

The Problem

You’re working a lot of overtime, you’re so busy you sometimes forget to finish tasks, you feel like you’re constantly putting out fires and worst of all, you’re waking up in the middle of the night in a panic or you’re not sleeping at all. You really want to talk to your boss about it, but you don’t want to sound like you’re complaining and you definitely don’t want to look incompetent; so what should you do and what should you say?

In this article

• Approaching your supervisor for help
• Framing your message
• Going from problem-maker to problem-solver

A story about being overworked and stressed out

Recently a colleague of mine brought a similar problem to my communication coaching class. My colleague was discouraged and was feeling disconnected at work.