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January 3, 2024January 3, 2024Leadership

How to Mentor More People Without Getting Burned Out

Premise: One of the things that all leaders, sorry, all good leaders, get asked, is to mentor someone. The better the leader, the more such request that we tend to get. However, the time that we have for mentoring is fairly limited. While the mentee’s benefit a lot from the mentoring, there are reasons to believe that mentoring also benefited me as much as a mentors. So, it is in our best interest to mentor as many people as we can, given our limited time, and do so in such a way that we don’t burn ourselves out. Here are […]

July 31, 2017July 28, 20171000Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Leadership

The 12 Stages of Burnout

Premise: As leaders and entrepreneurs, we are people with a lot of drive and motivation to do stuff. In our hustle to make progress, we often don’t realise if we start suffering from burnout until it’s too late. So, when I looked up for a reliable way for us to find out if we are suffering from burn out, I came across this white paper written by Herbert Freudenberger and Gail North. 12 Phases of Burn out They have divided burning out into 12 phases. You can read their entire paper here. The 12 phases are as below. The important thing […]