Webcast:
Your job is secure. You know that no cutbacks, downsizings, or layoffs will occur for the foreseeable future. So why are you miserable?
If you are a healthy C-level executive, a major cause of your malaise may be a lack of challenge at work, leading to what Dr. Steven Berglas calls Supernova Burnout.
Most senior professionals have an inborn need to achieve. If you are one, sitting idle, being forced to tread water (metaphorically), or assuming a “hurry-up-and-wait” orientation to business is the psychological equivalent of being jailed for a crime you did not commit.
If your corporation has issued a “no growth, be happy you still have a job” 5-year plan, you will want to attend this webcast. Dr. Berglas will explain why this situation can destroy your psychological health, what Supernova Burnout is and how you can prevent it, and if you recognize that you have already experienced this problem, what “self-medicating” steps you can take to stop it from getting worse.
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Presenters
Dr. Steven Berglas is an executive coach and management consultant who spent twenty-five years on the faculty of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry and had a private psychotherapy practice in Boston prior to relocating to Los Angeles in 2000. From 1980-1985 he held a Career Scientist Development Award from the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration.
Dr. Berglas’ seminal views on executive coaching appear in the lead article of the June 2002, edition of the Harvard Business Review. In his coaching practice, Dr. Berglas draws upon his skills as a behaviorally- and psychoanalytically-trained psychotherapist to design programs that have made him renowned for his facility at resolving the problems of A Players & C-level executives at risk for career burnout and self-destructive behaviors. Dr. Berglas also works with corporations on executive selection; namely, identifying job candidates likely to be burnout resistant.
Dr. Berglas has authored or co-authored four books that explain how the consequences of career success cause vocational, interpersonal, and psychological problems, including The Success Syndrome: Hitting Bottom When You Reach The Top (Plenum, 1986), Self-Handicapping (Plenum, 1991, Your Own Worst Enemy: Understanding The Paradox of Self-Defeating Behavior (Basic Books, 1993) and Reclaiming The Fire: How Successful People Overcome Burnout (Random House, 2001). Fortune Magazine honored Reclaiming the Fire by naming it one of the 75 Smartest Business Books ever written.
Dr. Berglas has published numerous articles on the causes and cures of self-defeating behavior, the factors that cause executives to fail, and how to prevent white-collar crime, in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and several major magazines. Dr. Berglas is a regular guest on talk shows including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dateline NBC, TODAY, Good Morning America, The CBS Evening News, and The Koppel Report, and has been profiled in Fortune, TIME, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, People and The Times of London.
Berglas’ clients range from Fortune100 CEOs, individuals listed on the Forbes 400, and billionaires who run privately-held enterprises, to award-winning professional athletes, Grammy winners, Oscar winners, and internationally-ranked chess Grandmasters.
Dr. Berglas holds an BA, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with high honors in psychology from Clark University, a Ph.D. from Duke University, and did postdoctoral training in social psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Great quote, Zhou Jin!
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
-Sir Winston Churchill
Watched the recast, was a very enlightening presentation. Thanks.
excellent and today is one of those days i needed this.
The Nietzsche quote "Whoever has a "why" to live for can master any any "how", many times I've found that talent has mobility both inside and outside simultatneously, through volunteerism and entrepreneurship while working in corporations. Is this in any way associated with maslow's hierarchy of needs?