Thought-provoking Things Worth Sharing - Issue #56
We're half-way through September. Fall officially arrives next week. I'm scheduling meetings for October and yet I feel like it was just July a couple of weeks ago, right? Before you know it we'll be looking at the end of the year and all of the career goals or team goals we made for 2022 will be at an end? Have you considered how you will wrap up your year and start planning for 2023?
Yeah, me either. ;-)
Here are some links though.
eDiscovery and Legal
Why Legal Tech Matters (Even If No-One Notices) – Artificial Lawyer — www.artificiallawyer.com ‘If a legal tech tool is used by a lawyer, but no-one notices, does it really matter?’ That is the question, and answering it reveals plenty about the nature of legal tech and where it fits into th…
Bad News About Lawyers’ Income – And Their Feckless Cybersecurity - Above the LawAbove the Law — abovethelaw.com What are law firms (and everyone else) doing wrong?
“Clear Deficiencies” in Production Leads to Sanctions for Elon Musk — ediscoverytoday.com The Court, stating the plaintiff “identifies clear deficiencies in Defendants’ document production”, granted 2 of the its relief requests.
Legaltech is a Small World, There's No Reason to Be Rude Ever — www.mikemcbrideonline.com We've recently been going through some vendor vetting at work, which requires a lot of time meeting a lot of people and listening to a lot of things. The
The Human Side of Legal Innovation: Four Takeaways from ILTACON 2022 — www.csdisco.com From tips on effective communication with lawyers to advice on engaging your team
Training and Development
What Does "Effective Learning" Really Mean? | Litmos Blog — www.litmos.com Effective learning serves both the learner and the organization, but it also must serve your organization. No learning program will be effective if it does not mirror the values, culture, and brand of your company.
Linked - The Best Money You Will Spend on Your Firm’s Tech This Year — www.mikemcbrideonline.com So many organizations are looking for the next piece of tech that will improve their workflows and make their team more efficient when they could easily get the same boost, or more, by training their people to use the tech they already own.
It’s Time to Build a Bridge Between L&D and OD | ATD — www.td.org Whether you are an L&D department of one, part of a larger global team, or somewhere in the middle, there’s little overlap or integration with OD, especially regarding the methods and knowledge base they each draw from. Even when a role is branded as L&OD, the scope of work tends to be siloed or lean toward one or the other.
Workplace and Careers
Linked: Succession planning isn't only about executives — www.mikemcbrideonline.com The importance of succession planning isn't just about how do we replace our top executives, it's also about how do we keep doing what we do when the person doing it isn't here? There are a lot of businesses dealing with employees who have resigned, who also have to figure out how they did what they did and how to train the next person to do it when no one ever wrote it down. Write it down. Make it easy to find. Keep it updated. Because people leave.
Linked - Why public chats are better than direct messages — www.mikemcbrideonline.com But, here it the real world, this doesn't always work out very well. You really need the culture to be one where everyone is used to working asynchronously and checking the public channel for chances to help out the team. It sounds like that is both the expectation and the reality at this company but for a lot of us the reality is very different. Posting something in a public channel where no one gets a notification that a message is being posted generally means no one sees it. So we go back to using private channels or tagging people in the public channel in order so that we purposefully interrupt them. We haven't developed a culture where asynchronous communication works and I suspect it's because we don't really want it. We want people to respond to us now. We don't trust them to get back later and, to be fair, we don't give our peers reason to trust us because we spend all of our time putting out fires and frequently forget to get back to people. In many cases, it's a humblebrag. "Oh I saw your message but then I got involved in important things because I'm an important person and never got back to you".
Mental Health
Linked - How many workers are looking for workplace mental health support? — www.mikemcbrideonline.com These are significant numbers for business leaders to consider. "The vast majority of workers—eight in 10—are seeking workplaces that offer mental health support, according to a survey of employees from the American Psychological Association. The organization’s 2022 Work and Well-being Survey was conducted online by the Harris Poll among more than 2,000 working adults between April 22 and May 2. The survey also found that 71% believe their employer is more concerned about the mental health of employees now than before the pandemic, while 39% of employees have stated that their workplace environment has had a negative impact on their mental health."
Workplace Mental Health Toolkit | Mental Health America — www.mhanational.org According to MHA’s Mind the Workplace 2022 report, 78% of workers agree that workplace stress affects their mental health, and 7 in 10 workers find it difficult to concentrate at work. This stress can negatively impact workers’ well- being, productivity, job satisfaction, and retention. With Walgreens’ support, MHA created an easy-to-follow toolkit for all levels of an organization to help support employee mental health and well-being.
Work Anxiety: Is it You Or the Gig? Here's How To Tell — www.linkedin.com At the risk of saying something trite and very well known: all jobs have stress. But, unhealthy levels of anxiety caused specifically by your job (or toxic company culture) goes way beyond that.
Security and Privacy
The formative moments: Women share what kept them in cyber or drove them away | SC Media — www.scmagazine.com A handful of early or formative moments can heavily shape or influence women's decisions to remain on their career path in cybersecurity or pursue other kinds of work entirely. Together they reveal insights into where the industry has gone right — or wrong — in attempting to foster and develop female talent.