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14 Ways to Overcome Burnout

Amazingly, the National Institute of Mental Health in the United States reports that more than 46.6 million Americans suffer from some form of mental illness with burnout being included in that list. With the fast pace of modern day society, people seem to have less time and more frustrations – even with all the technology that is supposed to make our lives easier! Here are fourteen practical strategies you can use in your every-day life to avoid and overcome burnout:

The Art of Moving Forward

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Are you moving forward or are you just looking backwards? Henry David Thoreau said, ”If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams and endeavors to live the life which they have imagined, they will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” As you live your life, are you moving confidently in the direction of your dreams on a daily basis? Or, are you allowing life to pull you through your days with an uninspired sense of duty?

The Y2K Bug

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Before the turn of the century in 1999, there was enormous concern that all the world’s computers would crash upon the dawn of the year 2000. Yet, as we know now from history, things went extraordinarily well on the transition and, despite the fear of a worldwide meltdown, things went nearly flawlessly as worldwide computer…

Defining the Playing Field for Your Organizational Team

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Have you ever seen a group of kids playing football on a playground?

It’s an interesting phenomenon in that they instinctively know how to choose teams, talk about the rules of the game and automatically define boundaries. In other words they realize that, in order to play the game, you have to know where the goal lines are, out of bounds markers, how to achieve milestones (first downs) and what it takes to win the game. All of these definitions come easily.

Yet, ironically, many times employees in companies or organizations of any kind do not understand what the playing field looks like for their own job. Remarkably, most employees don’t even have a definition of what high performance looks like. All of these things need to be “explicitly” defined so people understand how to play the game and win. Yet, many organizations assume they communicate these important parameters “implicitly” which is confusing for everyone, at every level. So what are the answers?

Top Three Organizational Pitfalls and How to Turn Them Around

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Organizational leadership has many layers and complexities. It can be challenging to figure out where focus should be between the many responsibilities each day brings. It seems that many times managers spend so much time dealing with crisis or putting out metaphorical fires that the core responsibilities of the job get neglected. Behaviors get influenced by either a generative or a reactive structure within the business. The underlying structure of any enterprise is what makes it either functional or dysfunctional, profitable or unprofitable. Generative means to generate a desired result in every area of the business. There are fundamentally three organizational pitfalls that a business must overcome in order to truly maximize performance, increase revenue and improve profitability.

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Creating an Effective Safety and Health Committee

“An Insight on how to Create and Maintain an Effective Safety Program that Saves Lives”

Our Ethical and Moral Responsibility to Safety and Health

 Firefighters and First Responders across the World are susceptible to multiple elements that can cause injury, illness, disease, or worse; even death. Some of those threats may not appear to be an immediate danger to life and health, but after repeated exposure and years of service they ultimately become a danger to our well-being and can have negative impacts on our career and ultimately leave you to being exposed. As public servants we perform our duties around shared values such as “selflessness”. We understand that we have an inherently dangerous profession and accept the threats that we’re exposed to day in and day out; month after month; and year after year for the span of our career. Now more than ever, we have an ethical and moral responsibility to promote safety and health.