Linked: Employees’ email still drives most of the data loss at organizations
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Linked: Employees’ email still drives most of the data loss at organizations

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

A good chunk of these breaches are not someone actually trying to steal data, but just someone trying to either make something more easily accessible outside of the office or taking information when they leave related to things like contact information, maybe some documents they’ve written themselves that they want to keep, etc.

It’s likely that these folks aren’t actively trying to commit some sort of corporate espionage, they just aren’t really thinking about what they do. It might just be that the once-per-year required video just isn’t enough to make it top of mind every day.

Shared Links (weekly) May 29, 2022

Shared Links (weekly) May 29, 2022

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute
Linked: The death of ‘mandatory fun’ in the office

Linked: The death of ‘mandatory fun’ in the office

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

This has always been the key, but I suspect too many employees lacked the power to say it. Some of my best friends are people I met at work. I met my wife at work. Clearly, I am not against interacting with coworkers. I am, however, against anything that forces me to interact in a certain way with a group of people I didn’t choose to interact with.

That is just time spent doing a thing that isn’t important to me after we have spent the last couple of years learning how important it is to dedicate time to the important things.

Figure out what is important to your people and they will participate. Waste their time with frivolous nonsense, and they won’t. It’s really that simple.

Linked: L&D’s Role in Attracting Top Talent
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Linked: L&D’s Role in Attracting Top Talent

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

The folks from this survey understand two things.

1. The skills they have today won’t be enough to be successful tomorrow. Technology is changing the work we do at an ever-increasing clip. If they are in a job that isn’t keeping pace, or giving them the opportunity to keep pace, it’s going to end badly for them.

2. If an organization isn’t recognizing the need for their talent to continuously learn it is not only offering a job without the kind of future they are seeking, but it’s probably not offering itself the kind of future it needs. People see this. Your top people know it’s true. They see a sinking ship long before you do. A ship that keeps doing what it’s always done without growing and adapting to change is sinking. Maybe not today, or the next year, but eventually, they know.

Shared Links (weekly) May 22, 2022

Shared Links (weekly) May 22, 2022

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute