Thought-provoking Things Worth Sharing - Issue #61
Training and Development
The Leader’s Role in Developing People: It’s Complicated | ATD — www.td.org A pressure for leaders to develop people and their collective teams has emerged to the forefront, and it is crucial for L&D professionals to serve as close partners to support leaders in how they develop others.
Linked - More U.S. companies charging employees for job training if they quit — www.mikemcbrideonline.com If you read the article below, you'll notice that we aren't talking about paying college tuition or anything like that. We're talking about standard, company-wide training sessions that only served to make sure new employees understand things that many of them already knew. That's insane. Basic onboarding and continued training of employees is a necessity in 2022. You cannot be a successful business if you are not actively improving the skills of the people who work for you. It's a cost of doing business. It's a benefit for your employees that helps in retaining top talent and also happens to make improve your bottom line. It is the ultimate win-win.
Careers and the Workplace
Quiet Quitting isn't New, Caregivers Have Always Had To — www.mikemcbrideonline.com Herein lies the problem that many of our younger employees see and refuse to play along with. Why should our choices be between making a comfortable wage and living outside of work? Why do we live in a world where we have to "quit" being engaged in our work or decide against fully engaging in our families and communities? Moms have had to make this choice for years. Be a good mom and care for your children by lessening your career opportunities, or be a bad mom and focus on your career. Why is that the choice? I see article after article talking about the "loss" of productivity to companies when employees are not fully engaged. Still, no one ever calculates the loss in our communities from people who contribute nothing outside of their job. We don't put a number on the damage done when fathers are uninvolved in kids' lives or on the missed mental health benefits of being involved in hobbies, friendships, and community groups.
How To Write A Subject Line For Thank You Emails (Simple) — careersherpa.net Writing a good subject line for your thank you email is incredibly important, and many job seekers have no idea! Click here to learn how it's done.
Remote Work: A Win-Win-Win for Employees, Employers, and the Economy The ZipRecruiter Remote Work Report illuminates recent trends and explains why they have been a win-win-win for employees, employers, and the economy
The Impact of a Recession on Hiring: Four Things to Keep in Mind — ediscoverytoday.com The U.S. economy is entering what many experts are calling a recession. So, what does that mean for those of us in charge of hiring? Here are four things to keep in mind.
eDiscovery and Legal Tech
As Employees Move, Keeping Data in All the Right Places is Crucial — content.lighthouseglobal.com As organizations grapple with rapid transitions in their employee base, are their offboarding policies modernized for the new reality of work and is their data secure?
An Important eDiscovery Lesson From Jon Gruden — www.mikemcbrideonline.com See Jon, even when the investigation has nothing to do with you, those comments you made in the email exist, and the guy you sent them to didn't, or couldn't, delete them. So even though they may have flown under the radar for all these years, all it took was one investigation or lawsuit to involve the other people on the email chain, and everything you said is now out there. You would think people would stop having to relearn this lesson every few years, but alas here we are.
Security and Privacy
BNSF Cyber Law Failure Elicits $228M Verdict — www.legallycyber.com Executive management often overlook the serious need for I.T. staff to confer with legal throughout the launch of new technology services (and changes thereto). Legal professionals, true to their traditional training, can erroneously believe their professional tasks complete following contract execution. This is wildly incorrect. Just, ask BNSF, one of the largest railways in the United States, about how the dissection of legal from technology services can be a $228 Million mistake. #cyber #BIPA
What Security Professionals Need to Know About Data Privacy - Red Clover Advisors — redcloveradvisors.com It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and as an information security pro, you’re probably busy running employee trainings, writing spotlights for the company newsletter, and pitching technology upgrades to your bosses. While you’re spending October teaching everyone how to stave off phishing scams that are angling for customer data and avoid balancing company ledgers on public WiFi […]
Mental Health
Sharing - Why Leisure Is Never a Waste of Time — www.childabusesurvivor.net
I know it's become cliché to talk about depression and anxiety as part of the response to COVID19, but that really ignores the fact that the rates were going up even before the pandemic. Why? I think our cultish belief in productivity and "hustling" is a big part of that. If you can't ever rest, and take a break from your to-do list, you're going to struggle.
Remote work isn’t hurting our mental well-being. The lack of work-life boundaries is | Fortune — fortune.com Traditionalist bosses are using concerns over employees' mental health to force a return to in-office work, says behavioral scientist Gleb Tsipursky.
Reading - Why Do People Blog? The Benefits of Blogging — www.mikemcbrideonline.com I can't say that I started blogging for all of these reasons 14 years ago, or that I continued for all of these reasons. But, a couple of them were true