Month: December 2023

Career | Mental Health

Linked – The ripple effects of layoffs
ByMike McBride December 14, 2023December 14, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

It’s December, and the number of organizations conducting layoffs keeps growing. It’s been a never-ending cycle of layoffs. Let’s not kid ourselves and assume that everyone is feeling OK about that. Let’s not ignore the mental health elephant in the room, let alone the damage to workplace culture. And let’s also acknowledge that leaders who have conducted any layoffs do not get the benefit of the doubt regarding trust. There’s simply no reason to trust you.

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Career

Where is the Real Value That We Should Measure?
ByMike McBride December 13, 2023December 13, 2023 Reading Time: 3 minutes

We measure what people watch because it’s easy. Then we make that the stand-in for the information we need to know, why they stay subscribers. Why they subscribe is a more complicated question, but it’s the question that matters if you’re selling subscriptions.

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Weekly Links

Shared Links (weekly) Dec. 10 2023
ByMike McBride December 10, 2023December 10, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute
- The Root of Over-Meeting Culture
- Building the Neurodiversity Talent Pipeline for the Future of Work
- Bookmark This! Wellbeing in the Workplace Edition
- Want to Instantly Become a Better Leader? Science Says Meetings That Don’t Start on Time Are a Third Less Effective
- Five Great Reads on Cyber, Data, and Legal Discovery for November 2023
- Managers fail at communication in hybrid and remote work– Unclear communication and managers who aren’t available to respond to remote employees will kill team engagement.
- What Is Lifelong Learning? (And How to Do it Yourself)
- Tell Me a Picture– Good storytelling matters at work.
- Oregon Passes State Privacy Law
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Mental Health

Stories Can Help Eliminate Mental Health Stigma, But Is The Workplace A Safe Place to Share Yours?
ByMike McBride December 7, 2023December 6, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Bosses, ask yourself the question. Is this a safe place for people to talk about their mental health? If it’s not, what can you do to change that? The article above has some advice for you. Maybe it all comes down to the kind of people who work for you and the behavior that you tolerate. If someone is honest about their mental health struggles and then you allow them to be stigmatized by others, it’s not a safe place.

And if it’s not a safe place, your wellbeing program doesn’t matter.

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Security

Linked – AI and Mass Spying
ByMike McBride December 6, 2023December 7, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Imagine, if you will, your smart TV or home assistant listening in on conversations you’ve been having about layoffs in your industry, and that data is shared with a financial institution that then decides that you’re not a good credit risk. The AI took that conversation and combined it with a ton of financial information from other people who work in your industry and made that call. Is it accurate? Probably not, but when you start grabbing data from all over the place and building these huge algorithmic models, things can get a little messy. You become less of an individual and more of a conglomeration of all the people who do things like you, and when you add in a little spying, that can lead to all sorts of disastrous consequences.

Do we want governments and corporations to have that much power? No, but as Bruce rightly points out, we haven’t done much of anything to stop them from taking it so far.

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Weekly Links

Shared Links (weekly) Dec. 3, 2023
ByMike McBride December 3, 2023December 2, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute
- Who is productive, and who isn’t? Here’s how to tell.– an interesting conversation about employee archetypes.
- Middle Managers Suffer Most From Change- – “Organizations that aren’t investing in helping their people through change are failing,”
- Finding Common Ground on ESI Protocols by Craig Ball
- Networking for Better Opportunities: Land a Job By Socializing
- The Employee Experience Drives Employee Retention
- NYPD Moves Towards Encrypting Radio Transmissions After Years Of Decrying Encryption Use By The General Public
- Is iPhone AirDrop Feature ‘NameDrop’ Dangerous, as Facebook Posts Claim?– “To be clear, no contact information is automatically shared when two devices are brought together without a user taking action.”
- AI doesn’t cause harm by itself. We should worry about the people who control it
- The Power of Networking In Uncertain Times
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