Nobody comes saying:
"I'm burned out."
According to UCE Research (2024), nearly 78% of working Poles show at least one symptom of burnout. The figure is even higher among managers — and rising year on year. But nobody types "I'm burned out, help" into a search engine. Clients come to me with specific situations. With a difficult manager. With a team that's wearing them down. With the feeling that whatever they do, it's never enough. It's only during the work that we see these are different faces of the same exhaustion.
What managers come with
Your manager changed, or you changed role — and suddenly you don't know how to find your footing in the relationship. Expectations are unclear. Feedback doesn't exist, or exists only as criticism. You feel that whatever you do, it's never enough — and you've started arriving at work with a knot in your stomach.
You're responsible for the results of people you can't control. Someone isn't delivering, someone else is quietly quitting, and you're trying to hold everything together. Motivating, mediating, firefighting. And more and more often, you catch yourself thinking it would simply be easier to do everything yourself.
Each quarter ends and the next begins — with a higher target. The pattern is always the same: you deliver, the bar goes up. You've stopped asking why. You're only thinking about how to survive until Friday.
You make dozens of decisions a day — strategic, operational, personal. Usually with insufficient data and too little time. In the evenings, you return to them in your head. You've started to fear that one of them will be the wrong one.
You have experience, you have views, you have a point — but getting it across takes more and more energy. You're learning to play a game with rules you don't accept. And you're increasingly wondering whether it's worth it.
You can't identify a single concrete problem. Everything works — and nothing works. You're effective on the outside. Inside, increasingly empty. You don't know what to call it. You only know that something has to change.
If you recognise yourself in any of these — it's worth talking.
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