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Good Way to Develop Those “Soft” Skills People Are Always on About – Train Others
ByMike McBride October 12, 2023October 11, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

If you want to challenge yourself to learn something deeply, start figuring out how you would train someone to do it. If your employer doesn’t have an opening for a full-time trainer, create some opportunities to cross-train with your team, to reach out across teams and help teach them some of your skills, or to introduce them to some new technology that is coming. The skills you develop with come in handy, and you’ll be showing off some serious leadership skills as well, something that is probably in short supply in your industry. It is in most, anyway.

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Empathy as a Trainer
ByMike McBride September 28, 2023September 27, 2023 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Make sure you are exercising those empathy muscles. They’ll help you understand where everyone is trying to go, and they’ll help you care enough to want to help them get there. That’s learning and development in a nutshell to me.

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Training at Work is Not Like School
ByMike McBride September 14, 2023September 13, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Do we approach training from a “just in case” mindset, where we teach employees everything they might need to know before we get them started doing any productive work, or should we be approaching it from a “just in time” mindset, where they continuously learn new skills as they are needed?

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Linked – Employees missing out on AI training and development
ByMike McBride September 12, 2023September 12, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Good employees want to learn new things and utilize technology to be more efficient, and that’s what we want from our employees. AI is all over the media right now. It’s the hot topic if every tech conference and a ton of legal tech webinars. According to this survey, they appear to be out there doing it on their own with little direction from their employer. That might become a problem, but it shouldn’t be a surprise. User have been finding creative ways to find the tools they need to get work done instead of waiting for the IT team and training to tell them they can. AI is just one more to add to that list, and one more that the talent development folks are going to have to play catch up on, quickly.

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Are you Working Harder to Make Up For a Vacation?
ByMike McBride September 8, 2023September 11, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute

If you work somewhere that this is an issue, it might not be you. It could very well be the workplace. A workplace that can’t keep right on rolling when one of the team is on PTO is a workplace that hasn’t planned staffed or done talent development well. A workplace that is truly looking out for the well-being of its employees would not leave anyone in a situation where taking a break is more stressful than not taking one.

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Shared Links (weekly) Aug. 27, 2023
ByMike McBride August 27, 2023August 26, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute

I’m Not a Doctor – How to Help My Team’s Mental Health– I love the idea of modeling the behavior and making it “explicitly acceptable to take breaks.” Updating IT and Custodian Interviews for Today’s Data Sources Organizational Developers: Becoming Trauma Informed Will Elevate How You Operate The Secret Weapon Hackers Can Use to Dox…

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