Much of my attention since exiting our high-growth healthcare business has been focused on helping entrepreneurs manage the many challenges that come with growth. In a post at Forbes, Andrei Petrik, CEO and Co-founder of NetHunt CRM, offers some suggestions for entrepreneurs to help their staff deal with the burnout that can come with working in a growing business.
It’s interesting to see Mr. Petrick’s post at Forbes and consider it in terms of what we are told an entrepreneur is and what we observe to be elements of the entrepreneurial profile. Characteristics such as determination, high levels of energy, competitiveness, commitment, willingness to work hard, and tenacity are somewhat contradictory to the leader who stops to consider employee burnout. Clearly, there is an interesting evolution that occurs for some, and there are likely some who will have to work to get to where Mr. Petrick is today.
The article by Andrei Petrick highlights the pressures that are on an entrepreneur, it is inevitable to constantly feel the weight of the business when every part of it leads back to you. It is interesting that Petrick suggests that the key to avoiding this is by cultivating your workplace community. This is important for businesses to recognize, especially in the days of remote working when employee conversations can become few and far between.
This article is going over how to prevent burnout and how important preventing burnout is for entrepreneurs. Petrik talks about how when he was younger it was so much easier to work long hours, but as he got older it became more difficult and his body stops him.
This article is very helpful for entreprenuers and people that are in the business world right now. Many people will become burnt out quickly if they don’t have a life outside of work. Working the hours we work nowadays is something some people come off college not technically realizing that you have to be willing to work hard, have a personal interest in the things you do plus wanting to build plus grow throughout the company.
One of my biggest worries about entering the workforce is that I am going to take my work home with me and become burnt out and lose my passion for what I am doing. Sometimes I start to think that I’m crazy for worrying this, but after reading the Forbes article, it’s clear that this is truly a huge point of burnout that can happen! I think it will be helpful to me in the future to keep this in mind and remind myself that creating a happy work environment rather than a stressful one will allow me to not create this burnout.
The article that Forbes wrote was very timely in my opinion. Whether it was during COVID or since COVID most people have experienced some level of burnout. I think specifically in the business world it can be competitive and cutthroat. That can be exhausting and mentally taxng. For a well-known and established journal like Forbes talking about burnout and mental health is not something that would have been addressed years ago but is differently on topic and timely for the world we now live in.
I’m glad burnout is being recognized as an actual thing that needs to be addressed in the workplace. I hear stories from my grandparents about how they worked all their life and never took the time to realize how burnout affected them and their families. It is all important to take care of your employees. These people spend so much of their life working for your company and trying to make it better. Their mental health and happiness is a huge factor into the output they will give you.
This is an amazing masterpiece, Dr Jeff.
It’s so easy to burnout if one doesn’t keep his eyes on the goal.
Another thing that has worked for me is being able to measure my growth.
Keep it up with the great work you are doing here.
– Emenike