Feeling the Burn(out)

By Chad Chatlos, Managing Director at TurnkeyZRG

Mental health for college student-athletes has been front and center these last few years, and schools continue to devote more and more resources to ensuring the health of these young men and women.  We have seen a “de-stigmatization” if that is a word, in that it is ok to seek help when you feel overloaded and out of sorts, which is long overdue. 

At the same time, college administrators are being asked to do more and more each day, and we have seen a tremendous amount of burnout happening across the country.  Personally, by the time June of 2023 rolled around, I was physically and mentally spent due to the combination of work and family commitments.   

We all need to make sure we are prioritizing our personal health (nutrition, exercise, professional development, rest, family time, vacation, etc...), and we need to know that it is ok to say “No” to some things and/or delegate to our strong teams that we have built.

I recently returned from CALS (Collegiate Athletics Leadership Symposium) in Charlotte, and we had an outstanding guest speaker who addressed this exact issue.  I could see everyone in the audience nodding their heads in agreement with everything he said.  The challenge to all is to take those words and put them into action. 

I know it is easier said than done, and that the work needs to get completed in a timely manner, but if we aren’t taking care of ourselves, we will not be the leaders that we can be, and we will certainly not be the best family members when we get home at night.

I was able to get some downtime in July and August and have come back re-charged and ready for a great 2023-2024 supporting our clients, and ready to be the best leader I can be for our outstanding team at TurnkeyZRG. I hope that anyone that reads this will make a note to make this a priority in their lives, and I can guarantee that you will see immediate results and operate with much more energy and clarity.

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Founded in 1996, TurnkeyZRG is a highly specialized talent recruitment/executive search firm filling C-level, senior-level and mid-management level positions throughout sports, entertainment and media. Over the past 25 years, TurnkeyZRG has filled more than 1,400 positions throughout sports, entertainment and media. TurnkeyZRG helps teams, leagues, stadiums, arenas, theaters, college athletic departments, events, sponsors, agencies, media companies, private equity companies and other clients identify, recruit and hire the very best management talent. Turnkey now benefits from ZRG’s global footprint, full array of industry practice groups, data-driven, analytical search tools, and technology investment in changing the way executive search/talent recruiting is done. TurnkeyZRG becomes a tech-enabled disrupter of the prior executive search model. For more information about TurnkeyZRG, visit www.turnkeyzrg.com.