DYSFUNCTION & NONPROFIT BURNOUT OR A BALANCED LIFE?
Dysfunction & NonProfit Burnout or a Balanced Life? Part III in Burnout Series by pam ashlund Choices, choices. Back in a September, '06 post, I started a conversation about fraud prevention in Nonprofit Hall of Shame . A colleague wrote that a significant factor contributing to fraud would be burn-out. This has led me to give a lot of thought to the idea of balance. Not just having a massage or taking a day off, but creating work-home-family-finance-health kind of balance. In response to my speculations on the causes of fraud, Ken Goldstein proposed a new movement (in his post " Fraud, Burnout and Getting What We Deserve "): "The Nonprofit Selfishness Movement": We all need to set aside certain times and days to something entirely selfish (and legal). A little "me time" to guiltlessly get away from the stress of constantly being other-focused. Time for our own families, time to take a vacation, and time to recognize our own worth without resorting...