Worth Reading – The Remote Reality Check
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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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Some things never change – AI as the new slavery
So when they tell you that the risks and dangers are overstated, and not to worry about it, because the benefits will surely outweigh everything else, come back and remember that the wealthy said the same thing about slavery. For them, the benefits did outweigh everything else. That wasn’t the case for people who were different from them.
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Worth Reading – Barriers to Psychological Safety
Have employees given up on trying to change the workplace? If that many people don’t bother to speak up, that’s a condemnation of workplace culture. We all say we want engaged employees, yet many of them are disengaged to the point of not bothering to try to make a difference.
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Worth Reading – No surprise that Phishing Training Doesn’t Work!
Every employee is probably learning about AI because their job demands it, learning new features after new features of the tools they use to do their job, learning new systems that get rolled out every year, and dealing with technological change at a ridiculous pace.
Then, we make them responsible for learning how to stay secure and deal with all of the hack attempts that may come their way, too.
It’s all too much. Most of your users aren’t going to put in that kind of effort, and a yearly reminder about data security isn’t going to help them keep up with the variety of risks that are out there. It might not be worth the money you spend on it.
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Pay Them Enough to Care Or Stop Expecting Them To
You still have people performing tasks in exchange for a paycheck. They have no reason to feel like they matter. They’re ultimately replaceable. You remind them of that in a million little ways, then expect them to feel dedicated to the work your company does. That makes no sense.
