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Linked: Here’s the One Step Some Companies Are Taking to Support Better Mental Health
ByMike McBride February 22, 2022February 22, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

One way that I can see this being helpful that wouldn’t require much effort at all is to have a group of people who have been in touch with your EAP and navigated the maze that it can be, available to talk with other employees and assist them with that process. That can be the simplest, and yet most effective, way to start peer-to-peer support. There is much more that can be offered but if you’re struggling to know where to start, that can be one option.

However, to even get there we need to stop the secrecy, shame, and stigma surrounding mental health.

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Linked: Hackers slip into Microsoft Teams chats to distribute malware
ByMike McBride February 18, 2022February 18, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

This makes sense. How often do your coworkers send you something in a Teams chat and you simply click on it? Have you considered the possibility that it wasn’t actually your coworker but someone who was able to gain access to their account?

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Linked: A Hacker Group Has Been Framing People for Crimes They Didn’t Commit
ByMike McBride February 16, 2022February 16, 2022 Reading Time: 2 minutes

It’s easy, though incorrect, to dismiss worrying about hacking on the basis that “I have nothing to hide” so if someone gets our information, it’s not that big of a deal. And, in fact, someone getting your credit card information might not really end up being that big of a deal to you when it’s the credit card company that has to do all the hard work to fix it. For a consumer, it might just be some inconvenience. But the real danger to me has always been the risk of someone manipulating your data and causing issues. Imagine someone hacking the DMV and marking you as someone whose driver’s license has been suspended, or hacking your phone’s GPS, indicating you were somewhere you were not.

Or, a hacker fabricating a plot to overthrow the government:

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Rampiva Releases Baseline – New Free Tool To Measure Workloads in Nuix
ByMike McBride February 15, 2022February 14, 2022 Reading Time: 3 minutes

This post is a little specific to Nuix users, which I know is not something I’ve been posting for a while now, but I had the opportunity to talk to Bill Potter from Rampiva about a week ahead of the release of their new tool and wanted to share some of that conversation with you.

You can read about Baseline here.

In essence, the idea is to solve an interesting problem that has existed with Nuix Workstation users for years, finding an elegant tool that lets you know just how much work your people and your technology are doing.

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Linked: How to Toot Your Own Horn At Work
ByMike McBride February 14, 2022February 14, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

have often been on record as saying that leading a remote team requires over-communication. You simply cannot assume information is being shared or understood if you don’t actively communicate it yourself.

The same goes for tooting your own horn. You simply cannot assume that people you haven’t communicated with directly about your contributions are going to know about them. We like to think that compliments and acknowledgments go beyond the immediate conversations we are having but we can’t assume that.

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LinkedIn Cringe and Getting More of What You Measure
ByMike McBride February 12, 2022February 12, 2022 Reading Time: 3 minutes

It can be very easy to lose sight of this on Social Media but it can also be easy to lose sight of this in the workplace or in our own careers as well. When we reward certain measurements people respond by doing more of that thing. This makes sense if your goal is to simply attract more attention to yourself. For social media maybe that is your goal. If you are representing a brand on social media, yeah that is probably what you want. However, as an individual, I think you have to ask yourself if getting more eyeballs this way causes you to actually undermine your own goals.

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