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Tell someone 'I'm sick' or 'I'm tired' and you're not really giving them much information. How sick? How tired? Do you have a mild cold or a dread disease? Are you a new parent who hasn't slept in months or did you just enjoy the party last night a little too much? Burnout is the same. It comes in different degrees, from your common 'I can't wait for happy hour' variety, to far more serious 'I need to take a six-month sabbatical and re-evaluate my life' burnout. The appropriate response for different stages is very different. So how do you know how burnt out you are exactly? Science, apparently, can help. Recently 99U's Hamza Khan dug up a classic Scientific American article (subscription required) that describes a 12-stage model of burnout developed by psychologists Herbert Freudenberger and Gail North. Here are the stages the scientists outline:
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Paradigm-shifting forces such as cognitive technologies and the open talent economy are reshaping the future workforce, driving many organizations to reconsider how they design jobs, organize work, and plan for future growth
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July 10, 2017 5:46 PM
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Education consultant and speaker Alan November says if we want to move education forward, school leaders must start hiring teachers who are globally connected,
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June 13, 2017 1:03 AM
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Having a work best friend isn’t just a ‘nice to have’– it has a profound and measurable impact on employee productivity. Here's how to foster it.
Words Without Borders Campus connects students and educators to eye-opening contemporary literature from across the globe.
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Adopting a shift from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset is our choice, and it’s the greatest gift we can give to ourselves and certainly to our young children. Here’s a little infographic to help you on your journey.
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"Al-Haddad, a trained engineer who had personal experience with solar power, kept getting questions from friends and family members about how to install and use a solar power system. “I tried to find a mobile application that they can refer to,” he says. “Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any app to do that. Moreover, I didn’t find any Arabic application for solar power systems.”
He didn’t know how to build an app (“I do not like coding, no matter how hard I try to learn it,” he says), but discovered Thunkable, a drag-and-drop platform that anyone can use to make an app without experience. The resulting app helps people calculate the size of the solar panel system they need. If someone places their phone on the panel, the app can use the phone’s gyroscope to calculate the tilt of the panel and help the user adjust it to get the maximum sunlight. An Arabic version of the app also includes articles and advice about how to install, maintain, and use the panels."
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May 7, 2017 9:10 PM
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The data economy demands a new approach to antitrust rules.
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May 2, 2017 9:30 PM
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These gatherings can feel like a prison sentence, unproductively ticking away time. But when infused with some essentials, they can be fruitful — and even enjoyable.
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April 26, 2017 8:04 PM
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Keara Duggan, Director of Education Elements' Design & Implementation team, provides 10 essential tips for creating a culture of innovation.
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April 18, 2017 9:57 PM
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Open minds, hearts, eyes to new ideas, new decisions, new actions: one week worldwide
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April 18, 2017 9:23 PM
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The draft report “Working with Change: Systems Approaches to Public Sector Challenges” is now available online. In addition to the framework that was introduced previously on Hackpad, the team working on systems thinking at the Observatory has added four in-depth case studies from Canada, Finland, Iceland and the Netherlands to the analysis. The empirical cases show that systems change in the public sector is possible; moreover, that it can work in diverse settings: child protection in the Netherlands, responding to domestic violence in Iceland, engaging with the sharing economy in Canada, and in experimental policy design in Finland. The final version of the report is expected in June 2017.
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July 31, 2017 8:34 PM
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Want to evolve your business or your customer experience? Want to be a disruptor in your industry? What do all disruptors do?
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July 23, 2017 9:33 PM
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Deloitte's 2017 Human Capital Trends survey of leaders from around the world identifies the critical trends shaping the HR agenda.
This week has been called “London EdTech Week” by a loose and frothy coalition of venture capitalist wannabes short of a few bob, old media vampires looking to drink young blood, a university…
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From the beginning, Snapchat has never been a particularly intuitive app to use. And now, five years in, with the addition of more and more new features and several redesigns, using th
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Managers, leaders, and employees are all a part of that culture. But as a member of a team, you know what’s happening better than anyone. So, what can you do with all the information you have? What can you do to help your company continue into the foreseeable future? One part of the answer, if not the main part, is the culture of learning in the organization.
Learning is everywhere. I learn everyday in my job and I think most other people do as well. We all have to learn somehow or our jobs become boring, or even worse, we don’t do them very well anymore.
So, as a member of a team with a strong learning culture, what can you do to help yourself and others learn more effectively? How can you help your company create a strong and better culture of learning? More importantly, how do you harness that learning power and help it propel you into the future? Again, those precogs. It’s just between you and me. There have to be answers somewhere!
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May 9, 2017 8:23 PM
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The push for educational technology exists within a broader political, economic, ideological, and technological context. The all-too-common ignorance of this context and the subtleties of learning itself may prove problematic for edtech — and higher education's future.
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"They spend extended amounts of time together developing online courses. Sometimes, their relationship is filled with tension. Here are ways colleges and universities address and alleviate issues and promote collaboration ..." ©
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April 26, 2017 10:01 PM
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April 25, 2017 8:42 PM
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Management is tough enough in normal times. But what are leaders to do when their companies are buffeted by global uncertainty? Bill George introduces a management method fit for an era of volatility.
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April 18, 2017 10:03 PM
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April 18, 2017 9:29 PM
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Development Impact and You — Practical tools to trigger & support social innovation
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How bad is your burnout? Here's the scientific answer.