Linked – Four actions leaders can take to boost employee mental health
Psychological safety in your workplace environment cannot be achieved without training your managers on mental health.
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Do You Know What Will Prevent Your Best Performers From Hopping?
As I mentioned, I’ve left some jobs for reasons that had nothing to do with more money. Whether it was relocation, a desire to travel, a need to travel less, or the desire to work remotely, the one thing those changes had in common was that they were specific to my situation and preferences.
The other thing they had in common was that the place I was leaving did not have the flexibility to offer me what I wanted. Could the role have centered on doing more online training so I could travel less? Could a little remote work availability have kept me there longer? Could a fully remote position have allowed me to continue working and relocate?
We’ll never know because that wasn’t offered. Thus, I’ve switched jobs a few times.
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Linked – Time to Talk About Emotional Labor
Words about your workplace’s great culture ring hollow when team members regularly find themselves putting up with jerks. That’s not a great culture. That’s extra emotional labor—labor that likely doesn’t come close to matching what they are paid.
We don’t talk about this in terms of emotional labor. We talk about being resilient, staying composed, etc. We don’t talk about how exhausting it is to know that every day at work, someone is likely to yell at you, let alone know that when it happens, there will be no solution to prevent it from happening again. If they take the time to complain and ask for a solution, they’ll be told it’s “just part of the job.”
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Linked – Return to Office, Return to Sexual Harassment?
The article offers some suggestions on educating your employees about harassment and what you should be doing with programs, but I want to get brutally honest here.
What workplace hasn’t already held a sexual harassment seminar? Is it making any difference? Not when you tell me that remote work was the most effective way to lower incidences of harassment. Essentially, keeping people away from each other was the only way we found to significantly dent the overall statistics.
Want to know what would make a dent? Fire people. On the spot. Publicly. The first time it happens.
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Linked – Things ain’t working like they used to!
Come on, get your head out of the past. Times have changed in so many ways, and there’s no reason we shouldn’t reconsider everything about how and where work gets done.
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Linked – How to Make L&D Easier for Managers
This should be obvious, but I suspect it isn’t.
Managers play a vital role in fostering a culture of continuous learning within their teams.
