The human body and brain work best when rest and recovery are part of the schedule. It really is that simple. When we constantly try to “earn” the right to rest, we do a disservice to ourselves. It is part of us.
The post above points out that it’s not as simple as communicating more; it’s also about communicating better and making it clear where the employee is empowered to make the decision for themself and where they are not. That’s the tricky part. Many of your folks may not feel empowered because you never made it clear that they were, so they don’t make decisions that they should on their own, while others feel empowered beyond what they are and make decisions they shouldn’t. That simply means the lines have not been clearly communicated, and that’s a problem that won’t fix itself.
I cannot emphasize this enough: people do not just “know” about the work you do. You have to connect with them and show them.
Also, if you’re a manager, you should highlight the work your people do and connect them with people inside and outside the organization. If connection is key to success, don’t you want your team to succeed?
That’s exactly why IG professionals have been telling us to clean up our data. Too many people didn’t, and as mentioned in the link above, every AI meeting ends up being about governance.
We did our future selves a disservice by ignoring these questions for years, and now we have to either pay the piper or increase the risk exponentially by letting AI loose on this data.
What governance conversations are you having now thanks to AI?
There’s that word, trust, again. Your employees aren’t going to talk to you about their mental health; they are not going to use your employee assistance program, and they’re not going to ask for the things that might help them be successful at work because they don’t trust you.
This is the same company that has been accused of serving beauty ads to young women after it detected that they had deleted a selfie from their phones, and also of selling that to advertisers as a business model.
The same company that refuses to take down obviously dangerous and false information in the interest of “free speech absolutism” wants us to believe that it will protect people from online harassment now when it’s content created with their glasses specifically to stalk and harass them?
Sorry, Adam, you don’t get that kind of benefit of the doubt.