Burnout is a serious threat to any professional and is particularly acute to those in the helping professions. Nurses, teachers, pastors, and social workers live in a constant mode of "being available to people." If one is not aware of the danger, this constant output of physical, mental, and spiritual energy will eventualy reach its limit and burnout will ensue. This presentation identifies the signs of this danger. The purpose is to help professionals see the danger before it becomes inevitable.

1. The Dimensions of Burnout
Leadership Renewal Seminar
Dr. Greg Waddell

2. • Personal Assessment
• Organizational Assessment
• The dimensions of burnout

3. “The extinction of motivation or incentive, especially
where one’s devotion to a cause or relationship
fails to produce the desired results.”
Dr. Herbert Freudenberger

4. “A prolonged response to chronic emotional and
interpersonal stressors, which impairs personal and
social functioning and is comprised of three
dimensions: exhaustion, cynicism, and reduced
personal accomplishment or inefficacy.”
Chandler, Diane J. An Exploratory Study of the Effects of
Spiritual Renewal Ph.D. Dissertation, Regent University,
Virginia Beach, VA, 2005.