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Linked: Employee Retention Strategies to Future-Proof Your Org
ByMike McBride June 16, 2022June 16, 2022 Reading Time: 2 minutes

So often, I see people sitting and doing the same job, the same way, year after year. Some people are OK with that, and it becomes difficult to help them grow because they are resistant to change. Most people, however, do not want that to be their career, and so they leave to find a place that allows them to grow. If you aren’t the place that supports their growth, you are at risk of losing them to a place that will. It’s really that simple.

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Links | Mental Health

Linked: Employers Grapple with Surge in Mental Health Issues
ByMike McBride June 14, 2022June 14, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

Having HR professionals understand this is important. Having them try to influence the business leaders might help too. At the end of the day, though, this only gets better if the entire culture buys into it. Any individual manager who isn’t capable of making reasonable accommodations because they haven’t been trained or because the actual business practices create a roadblock for them only proves that this is all just talk.

People who’ve struggled for years to continue working at the risk of their mental health deserve a lot more than talk.

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Links | Security

Linked: Most organizations that paid a ransom were hit with a second ransomware attack
ByMike McBride June 9, 2022September 3, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute

Whatever you choose to do, though, the next step needs to be doing everything possible to make sure it doesn’t happen again instead of breathing a sigh of relief that you got your data back and continuing business as usual. That would seem to be the common mistake here.

Don’t make that mistake.

Security pros, where do you fall on the debate on paying or not paying, and does this report change your thinking?

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Career | Links

Linked: Feeling overwhelmed? You could be suffering from ‘meeting fatigue’
ByMike McBride June 8, 2022June 8, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

I have heard these findings before and am starting to think about how I can implement some of them. I think I’m going to encourage more check-ins that are off-camera and use my phone to walk around instead of my laptop.

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Links | Training

Linked: Upskilling employees? Odds are you’re underinvesting
ByMike McBride June 6, 2022June 6, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

Whether you purchase an LMS or make some other kind of training resource available to your employees, the fact of the matter is that it is expensive to ignore this issue. Your people likely have skill gaps that hinder their work. They want to fill in those gaps through education and grow with your organization, and if you don’t provide that someone else will.

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Linked: Addressing employee burnout: Are you solving the right problem?
ByMike McBride June 4, 2022June 4, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

Kudos to McKinsey for the research, but really just for the first line of this paragraph:

“As an employer, you can’t “yoga” your way out of these challenges. Employers who try to improve burnout without addressing toxic behavior are likely to fail. Our survey shows that improving all other organization factors assessed (without addressing toxic behavior) does not meaningfully improve reported levels of burnout symptoms. Yet, when toxic behavior levels are low, each additional intervention contributes to reducing negative outcomes and increasing positive ones.”

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