“Networking may not seem all that important in the crush of the daily to-do list, until you need a network to call on. Then, it may well be too late. The day-to-day work of networking is a solid way to stay connected with your big picture plans even as you take smaller steps toward realizing them. A network of contacts helps you extend and grow your business and career and allows you to help others in the same endeavor. A solid network also provides a hedge against the future. In times of challenge, these are the people you’ll call.”
It is easy to forget, in the midst of traveling around and work projects, to stay in touch with people. I’ve been guilty of letting my varied connections lie dormant instead of reaching out, or of ignoring an email for days, maybe even weeks, because I’m too “busy” to sit down and write a proper response, when a quick response would be just fine.
That’s not good enough, and I know it. This article is a nice reminder.
I spent a good part of the Super Bowl setting up a Virtual Machine with Windows vista on the Macbook Pro. The setup was actually pretty easy. The one complaint I had was that even though the easy setup program when you start the VM asked for the Windows Product Key, when I went to…
– “It’s not uncommon for the corporate teams I work with to report high rates of burnout while also earning top scores in organizational engagement surveys.”
As I’ve said before, many employers did the easy stuff. They invested in some mental health tools, promoted using employee assistance programs, talked more about mental health, heck they even gave people more time off or at least pushed people to actually use the time off they hadn’t been. And yet, here we are. Why?
Because they haven’t yet done the hard work of making the workplace not the place that hurts mental health to start with. There’s no easy fix for that. It won’t happen in a few weeks, but if you don’t start looking at it, you’re going to find yourself without many employees to keep going. Because in 2021, people have options, and those options are only going to keep growing as younger generations make very different decisions about their careers than those of us in older generations are used to.
The workplace will change one way or another. If your’s doesn’t want to, it will be killed.
Apparently, the science is settled in favor of it. You wouldn’t want to be a science denier, would you? Via: InvestmentZen.com Follow these topics: Career
Just a few links to things that relate to why workplaces should care, and what they should do about mental health issues: The Business Community Should Care About Child Abuse Too What if I told you, that all those businesses that are struggling to find good workers in the current labor market, or who are…
Psychologists say this is the only icebreaker question you’ll ever need “Four words — so simple, yet so revealing: “Tell me about yourself.” If you have social or networking anxiety, this is the only icebreaker you’ll ever need” The New Look of Legal Education Keeping our kids safe in a digital age Yee Haw! Texas…
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