“Help me fall back in love with my job.” A number of my coachees have said this to me early on in our relationship. They are tired, demotivated, irritable with their work and their colleagues. This is challenging as we are all relational creatures.
Some of these school leaders have started to depersonalise their feelings, attitudes, and responses to others. It is a feeling of heaviness – some describe it as “running on empty”. More of this later.
Interestingly, they all appear to be functioning at work, no-one has noticed any changes and standards do appear to have dropped – yet.
They will be operating at what we might call “burn-on” level – which is a staging post before we reach “burn-out”.
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