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Employees and Employers Have Roles to Play in Career Development
ByMike McBride May 8, 2023May 7, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute

It is in your best interest to have employees who are growing and advancing in their careers. One is because they continue to become more valuable to the organization, which you need. Secondly, as they grow and become more valuable they are also more likely to stay. Turnover is costly. The organization can provide mentors and other resources that would be more difficult to do on their own. In return, they get employees who grow with the organization. Who wouldn’t want that?

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DE&I is More Than Race and Gender – Neurodiversity in the Workplace
ByMike McBride May 1, 2023May 1, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

We have so many companies complaining about finding talent, and we also have a massively underemployed group who could be great at these jobs with some small accommodations. I’m no data scientist, but this seems like an opportunity. The article above lists some considerations that could make a huge difference and help you find and retain talented people who need someone to understand that their brains work differently.

This is what inclusion looks like too.

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Linked – The cost of tolerating underperformance — and overlooking your high performers
ByMike McBride April 24, 2023April 23, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

The most engaged and productive people in your workplace also need room to grow and develop. Not offering that to them is inviting them to go elsewhere. Not offering career development to your high performers because you are wasting all of those resources to fix your lowest performers will not cut it. They deserve more than that, and someone will give it to them.

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Prepare for the Spontaneous
ByMike McBride April 21, 2023April 20, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

At work, we are asked to make adjustments all the time. In our modern, technological jobs, we are constantly facing change. The individuals and teams who will succeed are the ones who’ve gotten comfortable with it. They’ve prepared for the change and know they can adjust on the fly because they know the work well and are used to making the proper decisions. Those who don’t have a deep understanding of what is going on will overreact to change and commit turnovers.

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Are You in the Correct Brain Space to Learn?
ByMike McBride April 3, 2023April 1, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

As learners, we should do everything we can to give ourselves a better chance to change our brains when trying to learn new skills. Learning about neuroplasticity and the best way to encourage that brain state would be a good place to start, and then we can move on with our lifetime of learning.

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Even Younger Employees Come In With a Skills Gap
ByMike McBride March 22, 2023March 22, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

One of the things I have talked about for years regarding college education is that, by its nature, it will always be behind. Think about it. You start a four-year degree program to learn technology skills. By the time you complete the four years and maybe even an advanced degree, everything you’ve learned is outdated. Technology changes that quickly. You enter a workplace using the next versions of everything you know. A version you don’t know much about because it’s so new that college programs haven’t even started incorporating it yet.

And by “so new,” I’m saying it’s been updated within the last few years.

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