Avoiding Burnout at Work

We’re going to watch a selection from a video series created for young professionals in the first few years of their careers.

The video creator offers tips for how you can make sure you can either avoid or bring yourself back from burnout.

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Learning Goal: Self-Control

Grades: 9-12 | Activity Type: Extension | Status: X Original | Remix

Be Good People Curriculum © St. Croix River Education District

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She described burnout as being “so emotionally exhausted by your job it’s basically impossible to enjoy it.”

How would you adapt or expand this definition to describe burnout for students?

What trends regarding your attitude, mood, mental processing power, etc. have you noticed on days when you’re well rested vs. not?

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Of the self-care areas she’s

mentioned so far (sleep, exercise, diet, social time) which one do you consider most important to your well being?

What about in a few years when you’re a college student or professional? Do you see it changing or staying the same? Why?

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On a scale from 1 to 10, how much did her suggestion that bullying can still be a problem in the adult workplace surprise you? Why?

She talked about “normalization”

of a toxic work environment, and in her example she implied that people in their first job after graduating are more susceptive to it.

Do you have any ideas for how those people could get better at recognizing what’s okay and what’s not?

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Of the work values she mentioned (contribution, learning, accomplishment, status, power, community, agency, autonomy)...

...which would you prioritize as your top 3? Why?

What was your #1 take away from her advice about how to avoid burnout?

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