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Linked: Are Mental Health Apps Actually Helping Workforces?
The bottom line, if you make a mental health benefit available, and then culturally reward the people who never take any time to use it, the app will not get used by the people who most need it. Your culture matters much more than your benefits package.
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Linked – A bad message for kids: ‘Be yourself, just not online’
Cross-posted from my Child Abuse Survivor site, because the questions about social media and personal branding are relevant here as well. Honestly, I’m torn on this subject and not sure what the correct approach is. As someone who connects with people as part of my professional networking through social media and my own blogs,…
Building a Culture that Supports Mental Health By Creating Opportunities to be Kind
As I said, I’ve seen this same research. More than once. I’ve talked about it here and here, and probably a few other times as well. On the individual level, acts of kindness toward others are beneficial for not only the receiver but the giver. As a peer, I can do what I can to give to my coworkers, but what does it look like to have a culture that encourages, rewards, and maybe even expects that kind of behavior?
Linked – More U.S. companies charging employees for job training if they quit
If you read the article below, you’ll notice that we aren’t talking about paying college tuition or anything like that. We’re talking about standard, company-wide training sessions that only served to make sure new employees understand things that many of them already knew.
That’s insane. Basic onboarding and continued training of employees is a necessity in 2022. You cannot be a successful business if you are not actively improving the skills of the people who work for you. It’s a cost of doing business. It’s a benefit for your employees that helps in retaining top talent and also happens to make improve your bottom line. It is the ultimate win-win.
The Necessity of Life Long Learning
If this tweet that I saw recently is true, we need to have a rethink of a lot of things. “Many of the most promising jobs today didn’t even exist twenty years ago, a trend that will continue and accelerate.” @Kasparov63 @Public_Affairs #DeepThinkingbook #MondayMotivation #MondayThoughts pic.twitter.com/0DpfvxuZ4J — Shaun Tabatt (@stabatt) May 14, 2019 Now, when…
