Good Relationships and Burnout

Real friendships at work that go further than the day-to-day back and forth of business communication are why many key leaders and professionals love their work. We need community. We need positive friendship-based relationships with other people in our organizations.

But when that is absent, it's a killer.

A friendship-based relationship is one that doesn't have large pressure to it. It is one that cares for who you are as a person versus who you are as an employee, a peer, a boss or what you are or are not doing within the organization.

Friendships are what truly make us live and give us joy. Where there is no room for friendships, there will be a less than fulfilling situation that creates a prime environment for job burnout.

Tension filled, stressful relationships may be the worst of all business experiences. In the list of priority actions to avoid burnout, dealing with the people stuff is at the top.

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