To any & all,
I am doing some thinking about how the WP Community could help Admins who are struggling with the work. My goal is to come up with a formal mechanism that these Admins can turn to for help and support before they choose to simply give up and leave the Community. It could serve as a form of intervention before a burnout occurs.
What are your thoughts about this?
Marc Riddell
Marc Riddell wrote:
To any & all,
I am doing some thinking about how the WP Community could help Admins who are struggling with the work. My goal is to come up with a formal mechanism that these Admins can turn to for help and support before they choose to simply give up and leave the Community. It could serve as a form of intervention before a burnout occurs.
What are your thoughts about this?
What this probably needs is a "Father Confessor" type of person that stressed out admins can go to privately when they have a problem. Such persons need to appreciate confidentiality and be non-judgemental.
Ec
on 2/14/07 1:36 PM, Ray Saintonge at saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Marc Riddell wrote:
To any & all,
I am doing some thinking about how the WP Community could help Admins who are struggling with the work. My goal is to come up with a formal mechanism that these Admins can turn to for help and support before they choose to simply give up and leave the Community. It could serve as a form of intervention before a burnout occurs.
What are your thoughts about this?
What this probably needs is a "Father Confessor" type of person that stressed out admins can go to privately when they have a problem. Such persons need to appreciate confidentiality and be non-judgemental.
Ec
Or possibly a group of objective persons who could offer the same confidentiality and nonjudgmental input. Is this possible within the present structure of WP?
Marc
Marc Riddell wrote:
on 2/14/07 1:36 PM, Ray Saintonge at saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Marc Riddell wrote:
To any & all,
I am doing some thinking about how the WP Community could help Admins who are struggling with the work. My goal is to come up with a formal mechanism that these Admins can turn to for help and support before they choose to simply give up and leave the Community. It could serve as a form of intervention before a burnout occurs.
What are your thoughts about this?
What this probably needs is a "Father Confessor" type of person that stressed out admins can go to privately when they have a problem. Such persons need to appreciate confidentiality and be non-judgemental.
Ec
Or possibly a group of objective persons who could offer the same confidentiality and nonjudgmental input. Is this possible within the present structure of WP?
Marc
Group of people to offer nonjudgemental input? Sure. Confidentiality? Not a hope in hell.
-Gurch
Marc Riddell wrote:
on 2/14/07 1:36 PM, Ray Saintonge at saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Marc Riddell wrote:
To any & all,
I am doing some thinking about how the WP Community could help Admins who are struggling with the work. My goal is to come up with a formal mechanism that these Admins can turn to for help and support before they choose to simply give up and leave the Community. It could serve as a form of intervention before a burnout occurs.
What are your thoughts about this?
What this probably needs is a "Father Confessor" type of person that stressed out admins can go to privately when they have a problem. Such persons need to appreciate confidentiality and be non-judgemental.
Ec
Or possibly a group of objective persons who could offer the same confidentiality and nonjudgmental input. Is this possible within the present structure of WP?
Marc
on 2/14/07 9:25 PM, Gurch at matthew.britton@btinternet.com wrote:
Group of people to offer nonjudgemental input? Sure. Confidentiality? Not a hope in hell.
-Gurch
I don't know. I want to believe that there are mature enough persons in the Community that can honor a trust. OK, Pollyanna lives - but I need her to, to survive the rest of it.
Marc