After a year and a half of working, raising kids and holding school from home, one of the pandemic’s many side effects is employee burnout—something that many people likely did not expect when so many people were released to work from home in March 2020.

Although Rachel Montañez was trained as a career coach, she didn’t see burnout coming when she had her daughter in 2017. But after months of sleep deprivation, she was no longer feeling fulfilled in work that had previously been satisfying. After delving into what might be going on, she realized she was burned out—and that sent her career off into an entirely new direction.

“[Burnout] is something I subconsciously knew existed but I had no real idea of what the concept meant,” she says. “Since then, I’ve learned how intimately burnout is linked with career fulfillment.”

According to Montañez, “burnout is being exhausted, finding it hard to get up, finding it hard to do the work, and feeling negative and cynical. It’s feeling like ‘I can’t do this work and it’s piling up on me and I can’t catch up.’ It’s the bottom end of feeling fulfilled by your career.”

Montañez is going to bring that knowledge to a free Promax Peer-to-Peer Roundtable on Thursday, Oct. 14 at 9 a.m./12 p.m. PT/ET. The career coach will start with a 15-minute online introductory keynote followed by 30 to 45 minutes of discussion and networking in curated online roundtables. She’ll follow that up with an interactive workshop a week later, “Reignite: How to Sustainably Tackle Burnout,” for a nominal fee of $15 for Promax members and $35 for non-members.

A key part of the conversation will be about how employees can bring their feelings up to supervisors without feeling like they are risking losing respect or even their jobs.

“I think it’s important to think about it from the perspective of the employer: ‘Why should this person care? How much do I expose so they won’t be worried that I’m going to go find another job?’” Montañez says. “It’s about coming to the table with a solutions-based mindset.

“The other aspect of it is being very careful around the language that you use. That’s a very big one. We are going to unpack as to why that language is so important.”
To learn more and join the conversation, sign up for Promax’s free Peer-to-Peer Roundtable: “Beating Burnout: Flourishing in a Hyper-Connected World” on Thursday, Oct. 14 at 9 a.m./12 p.m. PT/ET.

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