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Linked – Failure to prioritize security and train staff – not shallow talent pool – likely behind cyber workforce shortage
ByMike McBride October 24, 2022October 24, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

Organizations that like to complain about not being able to find talent but also don’t bother to develop it are just leeches on their industry. Do you want more people skilled in cybersecurity or any other skill you’re having trouble finding? Teach it. Develop it. Grow it.

It’s not easy, but that’s how you address a lack of skilled workers. Educational and systemic changes are going to take way too long.

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Quiet Quitting isn’t New, Caregivers Have Always Had To
ByMike McBride October 18, 2022October 17, 2022 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Herein lies the problem that many of our younger employees see and refuse to play along with. Why should our choices be between making a comfortable wage and living outside of work? Why do we live in a world where we have to “quit” being engaged in our work or decide against fully engaging in our families and communities? Moms have had to make this choice for years. Be a good mom and care for your children by lessening your career opportunities, or be a bad mom and focus on your career.

Why is that the choice?

I see article after article talking about the “loss” of productivity to companies when employees are not fully engaged. Still, no one ever calculates the loss in our communities from people who contribute nothing outside of their job. We don’t put a number on the damage done when fathers are uninvolved in kids’ lives or on the missed mental health benefits of being involved in hobbies, friendships, and community groups.

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Linked – How Learning And Development Can Quell Quiet Quitting
ByMike McBride October 14, 2022October 13, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

If you don’t help your people grow and advance their careers, they will not remain engaged at your workplace.

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Quick Thought – Work Culture is So Bad that We Use the Word Quitting to Describe Setting Boundaries.
ByMike McBride October 3, 2022October 2, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

They are setting boundaries. They are cutting back on their commitment and engagement with work because they see that work is not the most important thing in life. They make decisions based on their mental health instead of the company’s bottom line.

No one is leaving their job in this situation. No one is not doing their work. They are simply not taking on extra work and commitments that they aren’t getting paid for.

Our society’s relationship with work is so skewed that the word we have chosen for this is “quitting”. There’s something profoundly sad about that.

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Linked – What Quiet Quitting Really Means for Employees and Leaders
ByMike McBride September 29, 2022September 29, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

Let’s face it, what company in the tech or legal sector is not telling employees that the way to get ahead is to go “above and beyond” their job description? Or, as I also hear often, to get that promotion, you need to be doing part of the next job on your career path.

I also know many people, especially younger people, who hear that and immediately ask why they should be doing a job that isn’t the job they are getting paid to do.

That’s a fair question. Why should any of us stress ourselves to take on responsibilities that might allow us to get a promotion and eventually be paid for doing that work someday? Let’s face it; many people have been doing that work and getting no promotions or salary adjustments for years. They see that and want no part of it.

Why would we do that to ourselves? Maybe we all should figure out a better way to evaluate and promote people.

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Linked – Hybrid Work Is Just Work. Are We Doing It Wrong?
ByMike McBride September 27, 2022September 27, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

People want to grow. They want to learn, and they want to develop the skills necessary to remain relevant in industries that are going through constant change. You can provide them with opportunities, or they will go somewhere else to do those things. Those are genuinely your only options. Change happens way too fast now for you to sit back and not help your people change with the times. Career stagnation is career death.

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