Linked – Wellbeing Programs: Are Organizations Addressing the Cause
Don’t let your programs be junk, fix the culture. Recognize how your culture contributes to the problem and then do something about it.
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Do Layoffs Fix Anything, or Do We Have Them Because Everyone Else is Doing It?
Take a hard look at what leaders are saying about layoffs and what they focus on. Do they seem personally hurt and concerned for the people leaving? Do they have honest and transparent explanations for why they made these decisions? Or do they repeat platitudes about “recession,” costs, and other bits of financial jargon to explain away something so painful to the same people they were calling part of the family a week ago?
Families don’t cut the number of kids when money gets tight. Your workplace is not a family and does not deserve a level of commitment that matches your family or your health. Layoffs are sometimes necessary, but mostly just a nice tool to perk up the value of a company for a specific part of the structure or to make up for mistakes made by the same people making these job cuts.
That’s business. I’ve argued for years that business has a vested interest in employee well-being. Caring about your people is how you get their best. I hope leaders will continue to grow in that regard, but as an individual employee, you need to care about yourself more. If your job isn’t meeting your career needs in terms of money, development, or work-life balance, find a better one. You owe them nothing. They pay you to do a job until they decide not to. You owe them that work.
That is all.
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Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 22 2023
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Ways to Help Your Employees Be More Successful in the Workplace
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SEC Sues Law Firm for Refusing to Disclose List of Clients Affected by Cyberattack
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UT Austin’s Ban Of TikTok Is A Dumb Performance That Fixes Nothing
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Study reveals the key reason why fake news spreads on social media– Users like the attention, and the algorithm rewards them with it.
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Job searching and interviewing is a nightmare — and only getting worse
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7 Reminders For When Managing Your Team Is Hard While Also Managing Depression And Anxiety
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When you want to succeed as a remote worker: 5 tips to shine from your home office
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Bad Managers Cause Poor Mental Health
Think about it, someone in management who has never learned how to communicate will have a team unaware of what is happening. Leaders who follow the examples of those above them, who’ve created a misogynistic culture, will continue with the same practices. When things don’t go smoothly, managers getting berated from above will berate the people below them. And on and on it goes.
If we want a healthier, open, and inclusive workplace, we need to train the people in charge of setting the tone and the culture. All the lunchtime yoga and meditation in the world can’t overcome that shortcoming.
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Are you Prepared For 100% Turnover?
If you don’t have the money for significant pay raises, don’t offer other growth opportunities, and have a toxic workplace that doesn’t offer the opportunity for folks to have something that looks remotely like work-life balance, you should prepare yourself to replace everyone. Can you really afford to do that?
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Linked – Managers Should Encourage Employee Development
The article below mentions something we’ve all seen way too many times. The manager who gets promoted, but never developed any of their reports to do their job, and winds up having to continue doing it. In the worst-case scenario, since the culture was not to develop people to replace you, that person is probably also learning the new role from scratch while still doing a large chunk of their old role.
What a waste of time and talent.
