Overcoming Overwork: A Guide to More Sustainable Success
49mGeneral2025-02-10
Authors

Malissa Clark
Course details
In this course, Malissa Clark, an expert on workaholism and overwork, shares tools to identify the type of motivation, thinking and emotional patterns, and behaviors that drive overwork and workaholism. She helps you build skills in order to address each of these four dimensions of overwork, including strategies to better define what is urgent work, rethinking work prioritization to reduce overwork, ways to develop a realistic estimate of how much time a work task will take, as well as strategies to identify and reduce rumination and to effectively recover when not working.
Learning objectives
Learn to spot one’s work habits and patterns.
Understand what workaholism is and why workaholism and overwork are bad for our health.
Learn specific strategies to facilitate a healthier and sustainable relationship with work.
Learning objectives
Learn to spot one’s work habits and patterns.
Understand what workaholism is and why workaholism and overwork are bad for our health.
Learn specific strategies to facilitate a healthier and sustainable relationship with work.
Skills covered
Remote WorkTime ManagementWell-Being and Self-CarePersonal DevelopmentProfessional DevelopmentOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Overcome workaholism and create a healthy relationship with work
1. Understanding Your Own Work Patterns and Tendencies
- 02 - Understand overwork and its consequences
- 03 - Differentiate between workaholism and engagement
- 04 - Understand the motivation dimension of overwork
- 05 - Understand the cognitive dimension of overwork
- 06 - Understand the emotional dimension of overwork
- 07 - Understand the behaviors that drive overwork
2. Strategies for Overcoming Your Inner Workaholic
- 08 - Redefine what is urgent at work
- 09 - Reinvent your to-do list to reduce overwork
- 10 - Learn to say no and delegate
- 11 - Fix your workaholic clock
- 12 - Control rumination
- 13 - Develop work recovery strategies
- 14 - Rest without resting
Conclusion
- 15 - Create your sustainable success plan
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