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A Workflow For Managing Large-Scale Document Reviews | IT-Lex
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How social media should be discovered in today’s complex world
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Linked: Time to end workplace stigma of mental health treatment for employees
Annalise describes a fairly typical situation, and what goes through our minds when we try to decide whether to say anything at work: “Let’s take something as simple as, theoretically: “My therapist is booked because demand is so high. I need treatment but they only have morning appointments available.” That may wrack your employee with…
Linked – 3 Toxic Speaking Habits That Will Ruin Your Presentation
This one in particular is one that I’ve seen in the training industry and it irks me to no end. People who can’t be bothered to prepare ahead of time to make sure they know exactly how the material and classroom exercises flow before teaching it the first time. “At a recent presentation training workshop…
Linked – Law Firms Versus Corporations: What Counts As Work
I enjoyed this look at how differently “work” is defined inside and outside of law firms, but I also suspect it raises much more troubling points too – “Perhaps law firms are too stingy characterizing things as work. Maybe tending to the career development of folks around you is worth doing. Maybe business development efforts…
Career | Links | Mental Health
Linked: 1 in 3 Employees Might Quit “for the Sake of My Mental Health,” Survey Shows
This is a real problem, our C-Level folks think they are addressing the issues of burnout, mental health, etc. because they’ve adopted an employee assistance program and instructed their people managers to be concerned about mental health issues, but they’ve not actually given them any training in how to do that. That’s a real problem and puts those managers in a real bind. How do they support the people who report to them, when no one has taught them appropriate ways to do that?
Linked – Here’s why conspiracy theorists are so hard to argue with.
I was having a conversation about this with someone recently, the fact that once someone has convinced themselves that there is some massive conspiracy involving the government and media, etc, you can’t disprove it. There’s no point in arguing it, because clearly any evidence offered is part of the conspiracy, and any scientific study contradicting…