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Burnout session at AdaCamp Melbourne. What do people want to get out of this session * Prevention (some appear to handle it better than others, comes up in every organizations) * Anti-patterns * “self-sabotage” * This is a structural * “i am disabled” -- learning to be a better engineer, knowing own limits, self managing * “I didn’t do what I needed to do at the time” * How do we teach volunteers to handle themselves * find out “who is responsible for volunteer burnout?” The organization (?) How to fix burnout?

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  • Burnout session at AdaCamp Melbourne. What do people want to get out of this session * Prevention (some appear to handle it better than others, comes up in every organizations) * Anti-patterns * “self-sabotage” * This is a structural * “i am disabled” -- learning to be a better engineer, knowing own limits, self managing * “I didn’t do what I needed to do at the time” * How do we teach volunteers to handle themselves * find out “who is responsible for volunteer burnout?” The organization (?) How to fix burnout?
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  • Burnout session at AdaCamp Melbourne. What do people want to get out of this session * Prevention (some appear to handle it better than others, comes up in every organizations) * Anti-patterns * “self-sabotage” * This is a structural * “i am disabled” -- learning to be a better engineer, knowing own limits, self managing * “I didn’t do what I needed to do at the time” * How do we teach volunteers to handle themselves * find out “who is responsible for volunteer burnout?” The organization (?) How to fix burnout? * task design * organizational design * leadership * Feeling trapped by the fact that no one else can do X * Controlling tasks :D * “some projects are hero projects” * Life-happens, prioritization * Unappreciated/unsafe * Rage quitting * People are attacking me from the outside * over-commitment * fade out - lack of positive feedback * fade out - due to negative feedback * idealism: not achieving the ideal, so quitting * unrealistic expectations * non-profit workers, not being paid and you shouldn’t ask for more money, work lots of overtime because “you believe” * create a culture where it’s acceptable to say no * What’s the role of leadership of an organization in setting policy? * Organizers need to say no (volunteer: you can’t do that) * Having backups for things * Succession planning (buddy people) * Socializing: Volunteering needs to not just be work * sophisticated task design * every task is balanced with a reward * commitment is very clearly defined * Planned obselecense * Top-level direction on planning to quit * having roles makes it much easier to move people out of them * Learning how to delegate portions of things * Co-founding: find someone with complementary skills * Tasks go undone :D - Just ask individuals to do things * Australian Associating for Rogaining is an example of awesome * long distance orienteering * 6 events a year
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