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The Gap Between What Management Thinks about Mental Health and what Employees Experience
ByMike McBride July 20, 2023July 20, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Leaders often throw benefits out to solve the problem, when work might actually be the problem. A great employee assistance program, health insurance that fairly covers mental healthcare, heck maybe they even threw in a few meditation app subscriptions for free. “See, we care!”

But the employee is quietly suffering from a lack of any connection to coworkers, poor communication with their boss, workplace stress, or even bullying and harassment, with no one in leadership to talk to. That’s not going to make them feel like you care.

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Career

Linked – Reimagining The Employee-Employer Deal
ByMike McBride June 14, 2023June 14, 2023 Reading Time: 3 minutes

This is the power that more and more employees realize they have. To hire you as an employer and to fire you when you no longer fit their needs. If that bothers you, if that offends your sense of loyalty to the workplace, do me a favor. Go to Google News and search for “layoff”. Do a little light browsing and tell me what loyalty has to do with anything.

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Career

Do You Wait to Offer Leadership Training to People in Leadership Positions?
ByMike McBride June 12, 2023June 14, 2023 Reading Time: 3 minutes

In the first case, most organizations I’ve seen only offer some leadership or management training after someone becomes a manager. This is wrong. This is gatekeeping for no reason. There are people on your teams right now who are not managers, but would like to be, and you’re doing nothing to prepare them for that. Someone gets promoted and then you start them on a training program on how to be a manager. That doesn’t make sense. What are they supposed to do on day one with the team that now reports to them?

There are also people on your team with fantastic leadership qualities who might not want to be a manager, or where there’s no opportunity to become a manager. Why wouldn’t we want to support them in becoming better leaders even if their title doesn’t immediately make us think they are one?

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Training

Linked – To Stay Competitive, You Must Overhaul Your Workplace Training
ByMike McBride May 31, 2023May 31, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

You can invest in your people, keeping their skills up-to-date for the constant change they will be faced with in the workplace, or you can view all of them as a simple cost to be cut down to the bare minimum.

If you do, at least consider the cost of hiring a bunch of new folks year after year.

Because you will be.

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Weekly Links

Shared Links (weekly) May 14, 2023
ByMike McBride May 14, 2023May 13, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute
- Ten Great Books on How to Learn Better
- Dialogue Over Surveys
- This Is How To Overcome Burnout: 6 Secrets From Research
- A New Low For Hackers – Threatening to Disclose Patient Medical, Mental Health Records as Ransom for Payment– Makes sense. If the organization won’t pay the ransom maybe the patients have more incentive to do so. I expect this to start targeting gender-affirming and women’s health in the US soon, right?
- The Elephant in Your Office Has a Mental Illness
- The decline of time-based law firms– “Lawyers’ billed hours constitute the inventory of law firms and the foundation of their profits. Legally trained AI will decimate those hours. What happens then?”
- Shadow IT & SaaS remain major security threats!
- Lonely at the Top: How to Help New People Managers Step Into Leadership
- Moving eDiscovery U-P-S-T-R-E-A-M
- Companies Are Hoarding Personal Data About You. Here’s How to Get Them to Delete It.
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Weekly Links

Shared Links (weekly) May 7, 2023
ByMike McBride May 7, 2023May 6, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute
- The new way of work – “It takes a different set of leadership and management skills to create the conditions for effective distributed work. But it’s incredibly powerful when you get it right.”
- Google Rolls Out Passkey Support, Signaling Major Shift in Online Security
- Lawyers and Cybersecurity: Security By Obscurity Is Not Security
- Chatbot Hallucinations Require Bloggers to Make Smart Use of AI
- OPINION: Chat GPT Lists Its Own Flaws
- 3 Reasons to Pair Caution with Artificial Intelligence
- Ten ESI Protocol Lessons Learned from Case Law Rulings
- The Ultimate Manager Guide to Virtual Team Building
- Less Data #6: Explosion of new state consumer privacy laws compels deletion of unnecessary data
- When Bossware and Employee Data Privacy Laws Meet– Interesting look at how these two things are going to run head-first into each other.
- How to Convince Your Campus That MFA Is Worth the Effort– The same arguments can be made in the workplace and with your family and friends.
- Crafting Compelling Career Stories: Be Memorable In Your Interviews
- The 100+ People You Should Follow on LinkedIn– for job search advice and career information.
- Beat Job Search Depression Before It Beats You
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Leadership

The Gap Between What Management Thinks about Mental Health and what Employees Experience

Linked – Reimagining The Employee-Employer Deal

Do You Wait to Offer Leadership Training to People in Leadership Positions?

Linked – To Stay Competitive, You Must Overhaul Your Workplace Training

Shared Links (weekly) May 14, 2023

Shared Links (weekly) May 7, 2023

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