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Litigation Holds Causing Corporate Heartburn? Ease the Pain with this eDiscovery Antacid.
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ILTA and Conversant Group Release First Cybersecurity Benchmarking Survey of the Legal Industry
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Let’s stop calling them “soft skills” — and call them “real skills” instead
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RSS Readers Are Better Than Ever, Thanks to Twitter & Reddit– “Twitter and Reddit are both cracking down on third-party apps and connected services while making the official apps and sites worse. If you want to curate your own news feed, it’s time to party like it’s 2005 and set up an RSS reader.”
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Unlocking the Power of Connections: Embracing a New Networking Mindset For Career Success
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Algorithms and the Human Inconsistency Problem
The other day, as I was perusing various news sources, I happened upon back to back articles from Psychology Today. Now at first glimpse these articles might not seem related, but I think they are. Let me start by talking about Facebook though. Way back in his Harvard days, Mark Zuckerberg, the legend holds, started…
The Important Question – What is all this Productivity For Anyway?
Which got me thinking, if we are taking vacation time, sick time, or even going with a four-day workweek because it will help us come back and be more productive workers, then why bother? Is that all we are? Does everything we do, including what we do outside of work, have to revolve around our jobs?
Linked: Talking About Mental Health with Your Employees — Without Overstepping
Or as I would put it, if you don’t even know my wife’s name, or can’t remember that I don’t have kids, maybe start there before you ask about my mental health, cool?
Suddenly asking someone you barely know anything about outside of work about mental health, will be a shock, and quite frankly, will seem threatening more than it seems supportive. As in, “why is my boss asking about this? Does she think I’m not doing my job, am I about to get fired?”
I’m assuming that’s not how you want them to feel, so be thoughtful about how you bring these subjects up. By all means, work up to it, and work up toward helping your reports feel comfortable, but do it in a way that actually works, not in a way that makes them feel less safe.
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Linked: How To Spot Anxiety In Your Employees
This first paragraph is sad. How do you call yourself a manager of people and leave them feeling like this? “Let’s face it, noticing changes in employees can be hard, especially with so many people working remotely. And that’s leading many of our workers to believe their companies don’t really care about their well-being. In…
