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A Cursor is a Small Thing you can Change to Make Online Training Better
ByMike McBride December 13, 2022December 12, 2022 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Jim Calloway shared a tip about changing your cursor color and size on his Law Practice Tips blog, and it reminded me of a little bit of a pet peeve that I often have with people doing technology demos or training remotely. They move too fast.

Rather, they move as if we all saw the screen exactly as they do. When you’re doing remote learning like that, you have to account for two things when it comes to your cursor. One is video lag. The other is how small it may appear in the shared-screen environment.

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Career

Linked – How to Find (or Start) a Job Search Club
ByMike McBride December 12, 2022December 11, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

Have you considered starting a club if you’ve been laid off recently? If you haven’t, maybe give it a try. I’m not in the same boat but if I can help you get started and try to connect you to others, let me know how.

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Linked – Productivity is outdated. Here’s why.
ByMike McBride December 6, 2022December 5, 2022 Reading Time: 2 minutes

When you have that blurring, though, the idea that you can measure productivity the same way as you did when we spent 8 hours building a widget seems a little overly simplistic, doesn’t it?

The challenge is finding the thing we can measure to evaluate whether people are accomplishing the goals we set for them, but those goals can’t be the “number of things or hours” when the work is so much more than that.

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Career

Linked – Monitoring Individual Employees Isn’t the Way to Boost Productivity
ByMike McBride December 5, 2022December 4, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

I am convinced that the best managers are the ones who help remove obstacles to doing good work. Every organization has them. It’s a question of how effectively they can be navigated. In toxic environments, it’s not possible. In healthy ones overcoming obstacles is possible, and that is where managers focus their efforts. Monitoring every action of an individual employee does nothing to help them navigate the obstacles and does nothing to support them. It’s all a top-down case of the “gotchas.”

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Training

Linked – Talent Development—Let’s Get These Myths Out of the Way!
ByMike McBride December 1, 2022November 30, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

Imagine having one thing you can do that would give you a 94% retention rate. There is one, though it won’t be as simple as doing one thing. It will involve figuring out the appropriate career development tools and paths for the people you are trying to retain, but having a program designed for that purpose gets you way ahead of most companies.

Yes, the thought that people aren’t loyal and won’t stay no matter what you invest in them is, in fact, a myth.

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Security

Computer Repair Shops are Not Safe
ByMike McBride November 29, 2022November 28, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

I’ve written before about the IT people in your company who probably know more about you than you might think. This now extends to taking your personal devices to a repair shop. You should assume someone might be surfing through your data while working on your computer, and you should decide if you are OK with that or if the physical destruction of the device after being replaced is the safer option.

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