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Frederick and burnout
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As usual, name changed to save embarrassment.
Frederick came to me when I announced a series of workshops. "I don't really want to be on stage," he confided, "I'd just like to participate, maybe interact with people.... is that okay?"
I assured him it was.
"Maybe interact with people" was the clue I got. Frederick had been hit with burnout. Successful in the corporate field, he was nevertheless dissatisfied and wanted a break. He decided to join the workshop series.
Halfway into the series we got a deal for a closed show. Stage a skit of around 20 mins, leave the team leader to build on it to uncover the real problem.
We needed a sound man. Not someone to set up the microphones and the speakers, just someone to tell the guy who did when to shut which microphone and what track to play.
Frederick volunteered.
In all the workshops hitherto, he had been content to be dumped into groups and do what he was asked.
Suddenly he was volunteering.
The show went off without a hitch. Frederick stopped attending the workshops soon after. But what he wrote to me subsequently in an email I shall never forget. I can't post it here because I respect his privacy.
Suffice to say, Frederick, a man trained in HR, saw more teamwork in operation in a 20 minute skit than he ever had before. And the experience of just being in a production spurred him to go back to the corporate world, revitalised and refreshed.
Deepak
Frederick came to me when I announced a series of workshops. "I don't really want to be on stage," he confided, "I'd just like to participate, maybe interact with people.... is that okay?"
I assured him it was.
"Maybe interact with people" was the clue I got. Frederick had been hit with burnout. Successful in the corporate field, he was nevertheless dissatisfied and wanted a break. He decided to join the workshop series.
Halfway into the series we got a deal for a closed show. Stage a skit of around 20 mins, leave the team leader to build on it to uncover the real problem.
We needed a sound man. Not someone to set up the microphones and the speakers, just someone to tell the guy who did when to shut which microphone and what track to play.
Frederick volunteered.
In all the workshops hitherto, he had been content to be dumped into groups and do what he was asked.
Suddenly he was volunteering.
The show went off without a hitch. Frederick stopped attending the workshops soon after. But what he wrote to me subsequently in an email I shall never forget. I can't post it here because I respect his privacy.
Suffice to say, Frederick, a man trained in HR, saw more teamwork in operation in a 20 minute skit than he ever had before. And the experience of just being in a production spurred him to go back to the corporate world, revitalised and refreshed.
Deepak
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