Mark GripResource Associate - Project Management Office| Connecticut Department of LaborWethersfield, Ct, United States
As a project manager are you feeling some symptoms of PM Burnout? For instance: inability to concentrate; feeling everything is wrong and nothing is working out; emotional exhaustion; feeling trapped and/or powerless; irritability and frustration.
Is it time to get out and check yourself into the Old Project Managers' Rest Home?
What are your thoughts? Saving Changes...
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Andy HesseyDirector| AHmedia (Project Management) LtdCrawley, United Kingdom
I came a bit too close to it for comfort earlier in the year - but some of it was self-inflicted....
I was trying to get too much done as I wasn't comfortable with deligating some of the work internally, for various reasons.
Once I had a break for a few days I was back with avengance .. but we've changed the internal processes so it's easier for me to pass work onto other people.
If it is broke - try and fix it first! :)
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Elizabeth HarrinDirector| RebelsGuideToPM.comLondon, England, United Kingdom
We all have a responsibility to manage our own work/life balance. Often we take too much stuff on ourselves. That's the first thing I look at when I am struggling: what can I delegate? But before that I need a good, comprehensive to do list so I know exactly what it is that I'm not doing! Saving Changes...
Hans RobbersSenior Director| SalesforceVlissingen, Netherlands
Agree you need to balance the work/life. Break up your life actvities in things you can becomen completely absent minded from the projects and activities which give you new insights to the project.
E.g mountain climbing without ropes will take your mind of the project for sure. There are more and less dangerous sports and activities to perform by the way.
Walking the dog on the beach offers an opportunity to rethink in a free format way leading to new insights.
Talking to a peer will help as well. It does not matter how senior you are a sounding board provides new insights just by listening
Use them wisely and dependent on yoru situation
It works for me, hopes it helps you
Hans Saving Changes...
Wai Mun KooPMO Director| Intergraph PP&MSingapore, Singapore
I have seen some companies that have installed Wii, XBox, table tennis, massage chairs, chillout zone etc. which are pretty effective for employees to breakaway from work temporary during office hours.
After office hours, I would prefer catching up with friends over a cup of coffee or dinner. I do have a friend that devotes his weekends into bakery stuffs which I think is also a good way to shift yourself away from work. I think anything that requires your immediate focus and full commitment will turn out to be a good activities for you to breakaway from your working routine and unwind. For example, I have picked up rollerblading recently and really have a good time doing it with my kids together. Saving Changes...
We all get stressed, fraustrated it is normal especially when managing projects, we get the highs and the lows and we need to recognise to leave work business until the following morning not to take PM issues at home, if something is worrying sleep on it, there is always help at hand we only need ask. Saving Changes...
Mark GripResource Associate - Project Management Office| Connecticut Department of LaborWethersfield, Ct, United States
After all, All work no play makes Jack a stressed man... Saving Changes...
Mark GripResource Associate - Project Management Office| Connecticut Department of LaborWethersfield, Ct, United States
I found this artical that might be helpful:
Managing Project Stress
Five ways NOT to lose your mind: Handle difficult clients and projects with these techniques.
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
