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Linked: 4 Ways to Uplift Men in Employee Mental Health Programs
ByMike McBride March 27, 2021March 27, 2021 Reading Time: 1 minute

There are 4 suggestions in the article below, and I encourage you to check them out and apply them in your workplace, toward everyone, but there’s something just so stereotypical that you can see a direct correlation between employee assistance programs and the number of women who work there. That tells me that we still, in 2021, expect men to just suck it up and not need help.

That attitude is damaging, and in some cases killing, men as we speak. The same ones we work with everyday. Don’t we owe them more?

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Linked: The current rate of technological change means careerlong-learning is now a must
ByMike McBride March 23, 2021March 22, 2021 Reading Time: 1 minute

Imagine a world where every technical skill you now have, will be somewhat useless in 5 years? Oh wait, we don’t have to imagine it:

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Linked: The UK’s Mental Health Issues in the Workplace – 5 statistics
ByMike McBride March 22, 2021March 22, 2021 Reading Time: 1 minute

The other statistics in this article point out what kind of impact those two facts above have on the bottom line, but I’m going to take issue with the importance they are given in this article. Don’t just make changes in your workplace culture because it’s better for the bottom line, do it because it’s the right thing to do for the human beings who work for you. They aren’t lines on a spreadsheet, they are people, with lives outside of work, who you have an opportunity to support. The fact that supporting them might also help your bottom line is nice, but irrelevant to the larger issue.

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Linked: Only Your Boss Can Cure Your Burnout
ByMike McBride March 19, 2021March 19, 2021 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I think the headline really speaks for the entire article. We can get all the self-care tips in the world, do yoga on the regular, eat well, and everything else, but if we work in a place that regularly requires 60 hour work weeks, ridiculous deadlines, and doesn’t really give us some control over work that we enjoy, that’s still going to be a recipe for burnout.

If you have any employees that report to you, go read the article and consider what it is that you are doing with your own workplace. Are they headed for burnout? Do you care enough to make changes to avoid that? Or is that “just the way it is” in your industry? If it is, ask yourself why it’s that way? Is there actually a legitimate reason for it? Or are you just so engrained in it that you can’t imagine rethinking the way your industry works?

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Linked: Why Introverts Can Be the Best Public Speakers
ByMike McBride March 17, 2021March 17, 2021 Reading Time: 1 minute

It may not be a huge surprise to know that I agree with Neil Gordon on this one:

“It turns out that a public speaker’s most important asset isn’t their theatricality, their story, or how extroverted and boisterous they are.

It’s their capacity to help their audience to believe that change is possible.”

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Linked: What We Learned In Lockdown
ByMike McBride March 16, 2021March 16, 2021 Reading Time: 1 minute

I hope employers, executives, and managers can remember that the people who work for them are people, human beings with lives outside of work, and not just an expense to match up against productivity.

I hope. But I’m realistic too.

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