Thought-provoking Things Worth Sharing - Issue #60
Question for you. One of the links in this week's newsletter references a study that showed people who are doing the four-day work-week use the extra time to catch up on sleep. Would having an employee who is not working while sleep deprived get you more quality work than someone working longer hours while sleep-deprived? It might be worth thinking about.
That and much more in this week's wrap-up. Have a great weekend!
Just for fun
Training and Development
Linked - How Learning And Development Can Quell Quiet Quitting — www.mikemcbrideonline.com If you don't help your people grow and advance their careers, they will not remain engaged at your workplace.
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.
eDiscovery and Legal
Breaking Through Common Barriers to Law Department Innovation | DennisKennedy.Blog — www.denniskennedy.com Lawyers are trained to think in ways that can be the opposite of good innovation practices. We spot issues and potential problems, with an emphasis on
Getting the Message: How Messaging Apps Have Impacted eDiscovery and Compliance Practices The way we communicate as a society continues to evolve. The use of mobile devices has increased dramatically in recent years, and with them, the use of messaging apps. The ubiquity of mobile devices and the increased use of text messaging and chat and collaboration app messaging has a considerable impact on your organization’s eDiscovery and compliance practices. The amount of electronically stored information (ESI) generated by these apps is growing exponentially and this form of ESI is potentially discoverable in litigation, investigations, and other eDiscovery use cases.
Law Firm Recruiter: I Was Wrong About Remote Work | Legaltech News — www.law.com In this episode Major Lindsey & Africa law firm recruiter Richard Hsu explains that he initially overestimated the importance of office work failing to consider that large law firms have been working remotely for years—even before the pandemic.
Second Requests: A Detailed Guide This article will teach you how eDiscovery works during regulatory audits, what an eDiscovery second request is, and how to handle the process effectively
Security and Privacy
Are your company's cybersecurity protocols doing more harm than good? | Employee Benefit News — www.benefitnews.com With the transition to hybrid or remote styles of work, protecting data became paramount for companies. But many of these policies are doing more harm than good.
The Password is…Wrong, If You’re Following These Password Steps — ediscoverytoday.com Unlike the 60's game show where contestants tried to guess a password, if you’re following traditional password steps, the password is…wrong.
Careers and the Workplace
Linked - Employees Use 4-Day Work Week to Catch up on Sleep: Study — www.mikemcbrideonline.com We know that people who are sleep deprived are cognitively impaired, make more mistakes, and just generally run the risk of some pretty serious health implications. Could a 4-day work week get you more "quality" hours of work from someone who isn't sleep-deprived than you're currently getting in the 5-day week? It's something to think about.
4 Myths About In-Person Work, Dispelled — hbr.org The ability to work remotely has become more valued than ever before, and that’s not going away, particularly among younger workers. Even in organizations that remain committed to offering employees significant remote or hybrid work, there is often a desire among leaders to foster togetherness with a return to in-person learning events. But as learning professionals, the authors hear many myths when it comes to what in-person learning — or in-person experiences more generally — can actually achieve. Here, they’ll dispel the ones they hear most often and show you how to maximize connection from in-person learning events.
Linked - How to make networking events less intimidating and awkward — www.mikemcbrideonline.com Don't be a bagel. But I lost my confidence as soon as I walked into a room full of ... bagels. That's what networking expert Robbie Samuels calls the
Is Your Leadership Development Program Undermining Your DEI Goals? — hbr.org A major reason for stalled progress in leadership representation is the inequitable way leadership development opportunities are allocated in many organizations. When informal means are used to select employees for opportunities like mentorship, leadership coaching, or other high-potential programs it’s all too likely that our biases about who has potential (according to research: tall, attractive, white men) come into play. Since leadership development opportunities tend to beget other opportunities, the problem of inequitable selection compounds over time. The authors offer four strategies to create more equitable programs.
The Surprising Benefits of Work/Life Support — hbr.org To succeed, almost every employee needs work/life support at some point. Women and people of color need it the most, research shows, because they face greater challenges and have fewer resources available to them. They are also the least likely to receive it, however, and as a result often are forced to change or leave jobs and lose out on opportunities for advancement. Given that situation, the authors decided to examine what effects various corporate work/life programs had on the management workforce. Analyzing data from more than 800 U.S. companies over 30 years, they found that when companies offered flexible work schedules, family leave, and childcare support to all employees, the percentage of women and people of color in management rose significantly. In fact, those work/life benefits had a larger impact than the most popular racial-equity programs did. Companies have long known that programs promoting work/life balance boost productivity, reduce turnover, and improve employees’ mental and physical health. And now it’s clear that they are also a powerful way to increase organizational diversity.
Mental Health
Sharing - 5 Crucial Mental Health Tips for Bloggers — www.childabusesurvivor.net Whenever anyone asks me about blogging, especially about child abuse and mental health, I tell them that they need to decide two things, and always stick to them. 1. Decide what you will share about your own story, and what is off the table. Don't share so much of yourself that you wind up becoming overwhelmed and find yourself dealing with the fallout. Remember, once you share it, you no longer control how other people respond. If you're not ready for that, there's no shame in it. Just know before you start. 2. The second one, is to decide what you're willing and able, to give to your readers. This is the hardest one, as the article below mentions:
The Lawyers Depression Project: A Support Group For Legal Professionals - Above the LawAbove the Law — abovethelaw.com Membership and meetings are confidential, and members have the option of anonymity when they participate.
World Mental Health Day - Mental Health in the Workplace — www.mikemcbrideonline.com As you may or may not know. October 10 is recognized by the World Health Organization as "Mental Health Day". As it turns out, this year the focus is on