Using your dilemma from the “My Dilemma” activity, discuss the themes from your personal dilemmas as a class, and ask yourselves what factors lead to your decisions? After the discussion, create a “mind map” of the influences that guided your decision in your dilemma.
Identifying Good Work Dilemmas
You will be assigned or will choose one of the represented dilemmas and explain how the story involves one (or more) of the 3 Es of good work. Once you are done, discuss with someone else who analyzed a different dilemma. Discuss your respective dilemmas, and then, each in turn, you will act out the dilemmas, one of you taking on the role of the protagonist and the other, that of the mentor.
Mirror Test
Use this worksheet to help you conduct your own Mirror Test. This process of reflection should be regularly practiced. Using the questions in the worksheet, write a reflection, written or illustrated.
Famous Failures Video Discussion
Watch the video “Famous Failures” and discuss how these figures encountered issues relating to the 3Es using the discussion prompt in the worksheet.
Obstacles to Good Work
Read the narrative “There’s No ‘I’ in Team” before identifying all of the obstacles Jesse, the protagonist, faces.
Qualities of a Good Worker
Brainstorm a list of the qualities of a good worker. Review those qualities and try to place them in one of the three columns titled “excellence,” “ethics,” and “engagement.”
Who is (or isn't) a good worker?
Using the provided “Good Worker Profile” examples, students will create their own worker profile using a template. Students will be asked to research a variety of workers and to find a person whose life or career interests them and is well-documented enough for them to complete the exercise. Students are encouraged to consider examples of both good work and compromised work from the person’s life. Students are told to keep the 3Es in mind when choosing what to write regarding their worker’s biography and to try to highlight when their worker may or may not have lived up to the good work concepts of excellence, ethics, and engagement. Students are reminded to be careful when choosing sources.