Lots of interesting stuff in this article about what Pew has found when it comes to how we are working now, and what it might look like in the future. How the Coronavirus Outbreak Has – and Hasn’t – Changed the Way Americans Work Obviously, there’s a lot of information about remote working. Generally, they…
This is an important thing to remember: “One of the major problems with complex jargon is that it makes the listener or reader feel isolated, like they “don’t belong” in the conversation. So they walk away feeling less interested and less knowledgeable on the subject.” If the effects of your communication is someone feeling less…
I would slightly disagree with David’s headline here, I don’t believe you should “wing” any instruction, but I digress. What is true is that there are very few people who’ve done online instruction, especially with video on, often enough to have reached the same point that some of us might have been with in-person presentations,…
Specifically, as this article points out, companies seem to think they’re doing a bang-up job supporting their employees during all of this forced work-from-home stuff, and pandemic fears, but employees don’t seem to agree: Nearly three-quarters of managers in the survey say they’re helping their staff learn skills to work in a new way. But…
You would think, after everything we’ve been through this year with COVID-19, racial justice issues, a dysfunctional election, and natural disasters, maybe, just maybe this wouldn’t still be the case, but I’m afraid for many workers, this is totally true: “In my opinion, productivity is given undue importance, while burnout is largely ignored in the…
I saw this recent article and even though it’s really about mental health, I felt like there are some really important career and management things to consider as well.
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