Thought-provoking Things Worth Sharing - Issue #51
I've been thinking a lot about the article by Maribel Rivera that is the first link below. How do we get in the habit of talking about career goals all the time instead of just once or twice a year? Even managers who have regular one-on-ones with the direct reports can get more caught up in the work right in front of us and lose sight of where people want to grow and develop. If we've learned anything over the past few years, it should be that people who aren't growing in their careers will go somewhere else that they think will help them do that.
So shouldn't we all be talking about that a lot more?
Workplace Culture and Careers
Regular Discussions Can Help You Achieve Your Career Goals — aceds.org We create career goals much too frequently without discussing them with the person with the most access to opportunities for us: our boss.
Linked: What is Toxic Positivity in the Workplace? — www.mikemcbrideonline.com When you aren't allowed to question, you are probably also not allowed to have a bad day or express frustration. That limits how much of you can show up in the workplace. That is not the way to get employee engagement and the best efforts of the people who work for you. In today's job market, it is a good way to lose them.
Linked: Management with intent — www.mikemcbrideonline.com Being remote is different. You have to over-communicate to make sure that people are in the loop. You have to create collaboration opportunities and build camaraderie purposefully, and they can't be team trust falls. You have to get creative about how you work together and interact. Most of all, you have to be purposeful about it. You have to create opportunities for people to interact and allow them the freedom to create their own patterns and relationships. You have to learn how to work asynchronously so that you can have more meaningful meetings.
Mental Health
Too Connected: How E-Discovery Professionals Can Avoid Burnout | Daily Report — www.law.com Too Connected: Lawyer Explains How E-Discovery Professionals Can Avoid Burnout
Getting to the Heart of Mental Health Issues in the Legal Profession — www.lawyer-monthly.com Perhaps more than any other white-collar profession, law demands an extraordinary amount of hard work and mental dedication from its practitioners.
Ten workplace mental health statistics you should know in 2022 · MHFA England — mhfaengland.org Ten workplace mental health statistics you should know in 2022
eDiscovery and Legal Tech
Alex Jones’ Accidental Text Dump Is Hilarious—and Alarming | WIRED — www.wired.com The conspiracy theorist's breathtakingly silly blunder underscores the urgent need to revamp ediscovery in US law.
Clarify Requests for Native ESI | Ball in your Court — craigball.net Poring over Requests for Production this morning, I was gratified to see the client sought native forms of electronically-stored information; but the request said only, “All documents shall be Bates stamped and provided in native format.” Is that sufficient? To me, specifying forms of production is best done via an agreed ESI production protocol, but…
Let’s Start by Calling Them What They Are for Discovery: ‘Pointers’ Not ‘Modern Attachments’ | Legaltech News — www.law.com One topic has recently been dominating e-discovery conversations: the discovery challenges posed by “modern attachments” within the Microsoft 365 (M365) environment. This first article of a series examines what “modern attachments” are and why they are keeping e-discovery practitioners up at night.
EDRM Announces Text Messaging Metadata Primer 1.0 Project - EIN Presswire — www.einnews.com Setting the global standards for e-discovery, the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) is pleased to announce Version 1.0 of the Primer for Text Message
Citizen Developers – eDiscovery Nightmare? – eDiscovery Journal — ediscoveryjournal.com Understanding Microsoft’s vision and roadmap has been one of my greatest challenges at KnowNow. The key has been #Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s pivot to the
Security and Privacy
Physical Security in a Transformed World - ALPS Blog — blog.alpsinsurance.com In a post-pandemic world where many of your employees might come and go, physical security at your law firm is a top priority.
Social Media
Don’t Be Too Quick to Blame Social Media for America’s Polarization – Cable News Has Bigger Effect, Study Finds | Snopes.com — www.snopes.com The study tracked the TV news consumption habits of tens of thousands of American adults each month from 2016 through 2019.
Linked: What Facebook Is Good For, and Why It Can't Be Good Anymore — www.mikemcbrideonline.com I've moved across the country a couple of times now. I've lived in 5 different states and have contacts and friends around the country. (And some outside of the US). Facebook, when it allows me to see someone's new marriage, their kids, or even the sad things they are living with, provides the best way I've found to at least keep in touch in some small way with a lot of those folks. It's all the other stuff that makes Facebook terrible.