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Working Happy !
A groundbreaking book that offers fresh insights and new solutions to the growing crisis of burnout in the healthcare workplace.
Whether you are seeking to find happiness in your present job, leaning toward changing jobs in the same industry, switching careers altogether, or even striking out on your own as an entrepreneur, this easy-to-read guide covers every contingency. Dr. Kapoor explains emotional resilience and provides powerful tools you can use right now to address burnout. With its innovative approach and fresh insights, Working Happy! is sure to become a classic in the field of healthcare workplace burnout and work/life synergy.
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Chapters
Chapter 01
Unhappy Workers and Employee Burnout sets the stage for the book and explains the problem of workplace burnout.
Jane is the chief medical officer at a large regional hospital. It’s a role she’s wanted since she was in college, and she worked hard to climb the corporate ladder. She began as
Chapter 01
Unhappy Workers and Employee Burnout sets the stage for the book and explains the problem of workplace burnout.
Jane is the chief medical officer at a large regional hospital. It’s a role she’s wanted since she was in college, and she worked hard to climb the corporate ladder. She began as a provider, but because of her desire to impact more people than those she saw in her clinical office, she began to work her way up through the ranks. Now in her early 40s, she’s attained a position of responsibility and prestige, with a generous compensation package, a corner office, a..
Chapter 02
The Two Sources of Burnout explores the two main causes of burnout: workplace environment and personal attitude and behavior.
We know that employee burnout is a growing concern. You may even suffer from it yourself, or a member of your family might. No one likes it, and anyone
Chapter 02
The Two Sources of Burnout explores the two main causes of burnout: workplace environment and personal attitude and behavior.
We know that employee burnout is a growing concern. You may even suffer from it yourself, or a member of your family might. No one likes it, and anyone who has it would want it to disappear. The first step in becoming free of this pernicious scourge is to under¬stand where it comes from and the factors that contribute to it.
There are two sources of employee burnout.
The first source is your workplace.
The second source — and..
Chapter 03
Finding Work/Life Synergy introduces the concept of work/life synergy and explains how it differs from work/life balance.
We can all agree that employee burnout — your burnout — is a bad thing. It makes you miserable, affects your job performance, and may even negatively
Chapter 03
Finding Work/Life Synergy introduces the concept of work/life synergy and explains how it differs from work/life balance.
We can all agree that employee burnout — your burnout — is a bad thing. It makes you miserable, affects your job performance, and may even negatively impact your mental and physical health.
If you feel burned out at work — or bored, exhausted, sleepless, disgruntled, or even angry — what can you do about it?
Chapter 04
Path #1: Find Happiness in Your Present Job helps readers analyze and reflect on their present job and provides actionable strategies to reduce stress and achieve work/life synergy.
The first path you can take to survive burnout and
Chapter 04
Path #1: Find Happiness in Your Present Job helps readers analyze and reflect on their present job and provides actionable strategies to reduce stress and achieve work/life synergy.
The first path you can take to survive burnout and achieve a satisfying work/life synergy is to stay in your present job and find a way to be happy.
To do this, you have two sources of power you can access: the power to effect change within your company and the power to effect change within yourself.
Chapter 05
Path #2: Change Jobs explores the possibility of making a bigger change, such as changing jobs or exploring new horizons.
This is pretty straightforward. You like the work that you do, just not the company, so, you take your existing skills
Chapter 05
Path #2: Change Jobs explores the possibility of making a bigger change, such as changing jobs or exploring new horizons.
This is pretty straightforward. You like the work that you do, just not the company, so, you take your existing skills and experi¬ence and move them to an environment that you hope will be more conducive to your work/life synergy. Your career remains the same; it’s where you earn your paycheck that changes.
Chapter 06
Path #3: Change Your Career discusses the reasons people change careers and offers insight from people who have done just that.
Will you stay in the same industry for your entire career, or at some point, will you make a big shift?
Only you can
Chapter 06
Path #3: Change Your Career discusses the reasons people change careers and offers insight from people who have done just that.
Will you stay in the same industry for your entire career, or at some point, will you make a big shift?
Only you can answer that question.
Before we dive into the question of a career change, we should first recognize that there are no clear statistics regarding how often people change careers as opposed to just changing jobs.
Chapter 07
Emotional Resilience offers practical tips for achieving a positive work/life synergy in any work environment.
Burnout can occur whether you’re working for a big, busy company or are self-employed at home. In any work environment..
Chapter 07
Emotional Resilience offers practical tips for achieving a positive work/life synergy in any work environment.
Burnout can occur whether you’re working for a big, busy company or are self-employed at home. In any work environment, to avoid burnout and achieve a satisfying work/life synergy, one important personal quality you should have is emotional resilience.
Emotional resilience refers to your ability to handle stressful situations, such as when you’re being personally attacked. Resilient people are able to
Chapter 08
Self-Help Strategies: Make Small Changes is a handy reference guide outlining powerful, practical steps readers can take every day to reduce their feelings of burnout.
The theme of this book is that “work” and “life” are not distinct universes...
Chapter 08
Self-Help Strategies: Make Small Changes is a handy reference guide outlining powerful, practical steps readers can take every day to reduce their feelings of burnout.
The theme of this book is that “work” and “life” are not distinct universes. You are the same person at home as you are at work. You don’t leave home with one personality and arrive at work with another. The best way to work happily and avoid burnout is to do what you love, pace yourself, and be able to look back on what you’ve accomplished with pride...
Chapter 09
Your Purpose in Work and Life, helps readers find their true purpose in work and life and introduces the Japanese concept of ikigai.
In the first seven chapters of this book, we’ve explored the choices you can make as you aspire to achieve work/
Chapter 09
Your Purpose in Work and Life, helps readers find their true purpose in work and life and introduces the Japanese concept of ikigai.
In the first seven chapters of this book, we’ve explored the choices you can make as you aspire to achieve work/life synergy — that is to say, the ultimate combination of career and home life that keeps you excited and energized about both. Many of these strategies focus on how you can change from within to successfully manage and even grow to love, the realities of life in the working world...
Chapter 10
Keep Working Happy! provides guidance on how to maintain work/life synergy and prevent burnout over the long term.
Let’s imagine that you’re working happy and your work/life synergy is in perfect balance. You’re pursuing your purpose..
Chapter 10
Keep Working Happy! provides guidance on how to maintain work/life synergy and prevent burnout over the long term.
Let’s imagine that you’re working happy and your work/life synergy is in perfect balance. You’re pursuing your purpose, and you feel good about your role in the world and your contribution to it. You experience challenges in your life and work, but rather than be shaken by them, you enjoy overcoming them...