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Linked: Overwhelming Majority Of Biglaw Staff Members Say Their Mental Health Needs Aren’t Being Addressed
This is damning, but I can’t say that I’m surprised that someone would feel this way, are you? “It’s difficult to convey the stress to attorneys of what we do. To try and convey how many balls we are juggling sounds defensive and lame, so we suck it up and consequently [have] stress,” said one…
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Linked: Growing number of college students want future employers to include mental health benefits
Given everything we’ve seen in 2020, this probably shouldn’t surprise anyone. Young people who have been paying attention to what is happening to their peers as they head into the workplace, and their parents as they struggle with raising children while working from home, are interested in seeing more on the mental health front from…
Linked – This Is How To Be a Better Communicator Online and Off, According to a Conversation Expert
There’s a lot in this article that I found interesting, especially for us introverts, but this one sort of took my brain in a different direction. 4. Tech gives us license to throw social boundaries out the window I asked Headlee what’s changed in conversation today versus a few decades ago. She summed it up…
Linked – Lesson One: What most people get wrong about effective learning
As a trainer, this is vital to remember: “Reading and listening are often important steps in learning. Without having any instruction, pure practice is little more than trial-and-error. The fact that we can learn from instruction and observation is one of the greatest powers we have as a species. The mistake, however, is in assuming…
Linked – Simply viewing this malicious ad will infect your computer with ransomware
And this is why we stay up to date on security updates, and also a big part of why I use and ad blocker. A new malvertising campaign from the AdGholas hacker group infects victims with ransomware, even if the victim takes no action other than viewing a particular advertisement. The revelation came as part…
Linked: One Easy Thing All Bosses Should Do During Mental Illness Awareness Week (Most Probably Won’t)
Amy Morin has one simple idea that will help get you started on making the workplace more supportive of mental health issues your employees may be facing: So the simplest and most effective thing every boss can do during Mental Illness Awareness Week is to make employees aware of free online screening tools offered by Mental Health America. There’s no debating…