Shared Links (weekly) Dec. 14, 2025
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Worth Reading – Communication Isn’t Part of Your Job. It’s THE Job.
If you’ve felt this way, I encourage you to consider that communication is a skill you can learn. Writing, speaking, presenting, training, etc., are all variations of the basic skill of communication. If you can learn how to articulate your ideas, you will likely find more success in your career. If you’re willing to teach your employees this skill, you’ll get more involvement and better ideas, rather than just hearing from the loudest voices on your team. It’s worth the effort.
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Worth Reading – Purposeful Work Boosts Engagement, but Few Experience It
I would suggest that another partial explanation is that many jobs and businesses don’t involve work that feels purposeful because the work has no purpose. Too many jobs exist solely to make more money for CEOs and investors. They don’t sell anything that helps society. Employees don’t benefit directly from business improvements, and those same CEOs justify all of the efforts by talking about how much the stock price went up. That seems to be the entire point of the organization. That’s the purpose.
It’s not easy to feel like your work has a purpose when the real purpose is to make some number go up. It’s hard to be engaged with that.
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Worth Reading – Unlearning Is an Important Part of Learning
I’ve talked about this before, but it bears repeating. Change is our reality. The most challenging students I worked with as a trainer weren’t the ones who struggled with a concept or had to overcome a barrier related to language or cultural understanding. It was the ones who didn’t think they needed to change anything they had been doing for years. They didn’t understand why they were being asked to change the way they worked.
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Quick Thought – Prompting is Written Communication
Perhaps this is another compelling reason to provide management and communication training to all employees, as we’ll soon be managing our AI tools. Knowing how to communicate clearly would make a massive difference in creating that “relationship” at work.
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Worth Reading – L&D’s Role in Employee Retention: Developing Career Pathways That Keep Talent Engaged
I’m not sure many organizations are designing career paths that allow someone to advance without becoming a manager, yet still grow in their careers. We haven’t been creative enough to create those career paths, nor have we been curious enough to determine what younger employees want from their jobs.
