Thought-provoking Things Worth Sharing - Issue #43
If your company does mid-year performance reviews, do you stop to consider the words you use to describe certain types of employees more than others? This week I'm sharing an Adam Grant tweet that looks at who we are more likely to call "overachievers", or "nice" vs. "opinionated" at work. The results might surprise you. Or you may just be surprised that people notice.
Of course, we also have much more on our favorite topics around here, careers, eDiscovery, Security, and Mental Health. Please take some time, and if you see something you think others would benefit from reading, share this newsletter with them!
eDiscovery and Legal Tech
“You Harm Your Client’s Interest When You Craft or Transmit Evasive Discovery Responses” | Resolving Discovery Disputes — www.resolvingdiscoverydisputes.com The Second District Court of Appeal's ruling in Beth Field v. U.S. Bank National Association is a welcome opinion for honest lawyers dealing in discovery
The Most Common Mistakes Firms Make When Using eDiscovery Platforms — blog.avansic.com Law firms too often make mistakes using an eDiscovery platform, notes Doug Austin. Take the eDiscovery Assessment and benefit from every advantage you can.
Security and Privacy
The EU's New Message-Scanning Regulation Must Be Stopped | Electronic Frontier Foundation — www.eff.org The executive body of the European Union is pushing forward with a proposal that will endanger privacy and security for us all. When this proposal was made public by the EU Commission last month, we said it was a terrible idea. Today, we’re joining together with more than 70 organizations in Europe...
The Internet is getting rid of passwords: this is changing now for us as users — www.aviationanalysis.net Microsoft, Apple, Google, and even the LastPass password manager are gradually getting rid of passwords....
OODA Loop - Will the United States Enact a National Data Privacy Law? — www.oodaloop.com Intelligence – Analysis – Insight
Career and The Workplace
Linked: Employee Retention Strategies to Future-Proof Your Org — www.mikemcbrideonline.com So often, I see people sitting and doing the same job, the same way, year after year. Some people are OK with that, and it becomes difficult to help them grow because they are resistant to change. Most people, however, do not want that to be their career, and so they leave to find a place that allows them to grow. If you aren't the place that supports their growth, you are at risk of losing them to a place that will. It's really that simple.
Research Concludes: We Waste Our Time At Work — corporate-rebels.com "[W]e found that employee productivity was 71% higher when meetings were reduced by 40%. Rather than a schedule being the boss, [employees] owned their to-do lists and held themselves accountable, which consequently increased their satisfaction by 52%." But wait, there's more...
Why Training Matters for Retention — www.mikemcbrideonline.com This brings me to that final point. Having a learning culture requires a plan for each employee and for different types of jobs. It requires coordination between the official training department, managers, HR, and the subject matter experts throughout the organization. It may look a bit messy. It may include some mix of internal training, external resources, job shadowing, self-study, and group learning. I'd argue that a true culture that promotes and encourages learning would leave open all of those possibilities. I'd also argue that your training staff isn't just there to teach classes but to provide and coordinate all of those options. They are there to "provide opportunities to learn and grow", whatever those look like for all of your employees who wish to do so. They are key to retention but they cannot do it alone. The culture must reward and encourage learning and growth in meaningful ways or all the training staff in the world won't make a difference.
Identifying Talent – You Might be Doing it Wrong — www.linkedin.com Origin Story My parents both grew up on public aid at different points in their lives. My father’s family started out living in the Columbia Center Housing Projects.
The 6 Best LinkedIn Learning Courses for Managing Remote Teams — www.makeuseof.com Want to effectively lead your remote team and ace your remote working career? Here are some of the best LinkedIn Learning courses to check out.
Linked - You Cannot Learn What You Think You Already Know — www.mikemcbrideonline.com The implications for this truth are quite far-reaching, no? Whether we want to talk about in a training environment or have a discussion about lawyers and
Mental Health at Work
Linked: Employers Grapple with Surge in Mental Health Issues — www.mikemcbrideonline.com Having HR professionals understand this is important. Having them try to influence the business leaders might help too. At the end of the day, though, this only gets better if the entire culture buys into it. Any individual manager who isn't capable of making reasonable accommodations because they haven't been trained or because the actual business practices create a roadblock for them only proves that this is all just talk. People who've struggled for years to continue working at the risk of their mental health deserve a lot more than talk.
Any company can support employees’ mental wellness. Here’s how with some low- and no-cost tools — www.fastcompany.com Even if companies are budget-strapped or early stage, they can still nurture employees’ well-being through free touch points and by embracing mental health from the top.
We're All Coping With So Many Collective Traumas At Work Right Now | HuffPost Life — www.huffpost.com Enduring a pandemic, racism, violence, misogyny, the erosion of rights and mass death is taking a cascading toll on American workers.