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The Chief Psychology Officer
Exploring the topics of workplace psychology and conscious leadership. Amanda is an award-winning Chartered Psychologist, with vast amounts of experience in talent strategy, resilience, facilitation, development and executive coaching. A Fellow of the Association for Business Psychology and an Associate Fellow of the Division of Occupational Psychology within the British Psychological Society (BPS), Amanda is also a Chartered Scientist. Amanda is a founder CEO of Zircon and is an expert in leadership in crisis, resilience and has led a number of research papers on the subject; most recently Psychological Safety in 2022 and Resilience and Decision-making in 2020. With over 20 years’ experience on aligning businesses’ talent strategy with their organizational strategy and objectives, Amanda has had a significant impact on the talent and HR strategies of many global organizations, and on the lives of many significant and prominent leaders in industry. Dr Amanda Potter can be contacted on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/amandapotterzircon www.theCPO.co.uk
The Chief Psychology Officer
Ep49 Neuroscience of Burnout
What does neuroscience say about burnout? In this episode, Senior Consultant Kristian Lees-Bell and the Chief Psychology Officer Dr Amanda Potter build on the neuroscience of resilience podcast and discuss the physiological and neurological reaction to stress, the emotions we feel as a result and the risk of burnout. This podcast explains the chemical response to burnout and starts to outline some actions you can take to reduce the risk of burning out and remain stronger in prolonged or acute stress situations.
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Timestamps
Neuroscience of Burnout
· 00:00 – Introduction to the Neuroscience of Burnout
· 01:13 – Tell the story you know…
· 02:01 – Atkins Neuroscience, not the diet
· 03:22 – You are what you eat
· 04:04 – Dopamine; its on the list.
· 05:10 – Serotonin; the superglue to Dopamine’s sticky tape
The Persistence of Memory
· 06:05 – What is Burnout?
· 06:58 – I think you ought to know, I’m feeling very depressed…
· 08:04 – I’m too tired to write something witty here, also my head hurts
· 09:08 – GPP (Genuine People Personalities)
· 10:06 – I’m feeling no connection here
· 11:00 – What was I doing again?
In my mind’s eye…
· 13:27 – Burnout in the workplace
· 14:09 – The 12 Steps (not by the AA)
· 15:16 – It affects us all; own it!
· 17:42 – Perhaps it’s an age thing…
· 18:20 – It’s your personality
· 19:28 – The Brain’s HPA and feeding yourself cortisol
· 21:19 – This is stressful!
· 22:35 – Solipsistic this isn’t it?...
Burnout is much more than skin deep.
· 23:25 – The process
· 26:10 – You’re overthinking the little details
· 27:35 – Try to be nice, but always be kind
· 28:23 – What does your therapist say?
· 29:40 – Let set some boundaries here:
· 31:25 – Please share
· 32:16 – The end.
Episodes are available here https://www.thecpo.co.uk/
To follow Zircon on LinkedIn and to be first to hear about podcasts, publications and news, please like and follow us: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zircon-consulting-ltd/
To access the research white papers mentioned in this and other podcasts, please go to: https://zircon-mc.co.uk/zircon-white-papers.php
For more information about the BeTalent suite of tools and platform please contact: TheCPO@zircon-mc.co.uk
