Linked – Taking an Honest Look at Your Data Health
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Linked – Taking an Honest Look at Your Data Health

Tish is absolutely on point here: A healthy data posture includes a documented and current information map that says what you have, where it’s stored, and who has access to it. Beyond an information map, you need to be able to collect, search, understand, and protect those data assets that are critical to the operation…

Linked – Five Reasons Why Travel Is Good For Your Mental Health
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Linked – Five Reasons Why Travel Is Good For Your Mental Health

While traveling a lot for work can be a source of stress, and anxiety, not traveling at all is not the answer, because we also need the break that traveling gives us. Apart from the obvious fact that you don’t have to go to work (and can legit eat pizza for breakfast), traveling gives you…

Linked – 6 Ways to Take Control of Your Career Development If Your Company Doesn’t Care About It
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Linked – 6 Ways to Take Control of Your Career Development If Your Company Doesn’t Care About It

First off, the headline is accurate, it is very likely that your company doesn’t care about really developing you, unless they have a specific benefit from it. Secondly, this is just a sad statement on management today: “Unfortunately, organizations today are unknowingly leaving employees with skill gaps and blind spots that can derail careers and…

Linked – How to Deal with Participants Who Deliberately Disrupt or Sabotage Training
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Linked – How to Deal with Participants Who Deliberately Disrupt or Sabotage Training

Anyone who’s ever done any technology training has seen this: “What are some of the common disruptive behaviors we see? Side conversations, excessive cell phone use, and participants who tend to dominate discussions are just a few. There are also latecomers and resistant learners. It’s not always easy to determine the cause of these behaviors,…

Linked – The Flu is Everywhere! So… How Do You Get Employees to Take a Sick Day?
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Linked – The Flu is Everywhere! So… How Do You Get Employees to Take a Sick Day?

This is true, what is also true is that most of these things would be mitigated, and the spread of the virus also mitigated, by having remote employees. The reasons vary as to why workers didn’t use all of their paid sick leave: roughly 73% said they weren’t sick enough, 37% wanted to save them…