{"id":25045,"date":"2025-07-15T12:56:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T12:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anthonydidonato.net\/wordpress\/?p=25045"},"modified":"2025-07-15T12:56:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T12:56:49","slug":"help-your-agents-work-through-burnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anthonydidonato.net\/wordpress\/help-your-agents-work-through-burnout\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Your Agents Work Through Burnout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Burnout is a serious issue that affects more than performance at work. Know the signs and how to help your agents get through it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before Paula Davis founded the Stress & Resilience Institute in Milwaukee and wrote the book Beating Burnout at Work, she spent several years as a commercial real estate practitioner. The inkling that she was experiencing burnout sparked when she realized she was procrastinating on certain tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m rarely a procrastinator. I began going to work later. As a lawyer, I didn\u2019t have a start time. I started [showing up] 20 minutes later, then 30 minutes. I pushed the boundary,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She began waking up every day not wanting to go to work, and she found that she became sick more frequently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the way stress impacts us physically. I would get a stomachache and then headaches; then it began happening every time I would close a deal,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She felt that every curve ball in every deal was a major crisis. At home, when a family member would ask a question or need something, she found that she\u2019d unnecessarily become upset or lack the capacity to help with what were normally easy tasks. Her eye-opener moment came when she got upset with her mom, who had asked her to pick up something from the store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t having any fun, not at parties or with anything,\u201d Davis says. \u201cThere should be some sort of happiness, joy and positive emotions sprinkled into what you do on some days. That used to be present, but it was eroding for me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Job burnout is more than having a bad week or feeling exhausted at the end of each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBurnout is a sense of chronic cynicism or frustration,\u201d Davis says, and it can lead to poor quality of life, poor performance, and depression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Burnout Is and How It Manifests<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Nearly five years ago, the World Health Organization recognized work burnout<\/a> as an occupational phenomenon. Symptoms are characterized by three components:<\/p>\n\n\n\n