I was part of a conversation at work recently about giving good presentations, and the art of telling a story was a big part of the discussion. Stories matter. Whether giving a presentation, pitching a new idea, making a sale,
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Layoffs, Anxiety and Trust
Ultimately this is what will define your culture and your employee engagement. Do your actions match your words? It’s not enough to say you care about mental health, diversity, or developing the people who work for you. You had better…
Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 26, 2023
- Redesigning How We Work
- Rather Than Making The Internet Safe For Kids, Make Your Kids Safe For The Real World– as a child abuse survivor, I’ve long advocated for the reality that if you don’t educate your kids so
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Linked – Social Media Is Dying
While I would love to end this with a condemnation of venture capitalists and hedge fund managers, I think it’s important to point out that many of us are complicit. Fund managers seeking the best short-term profits for their investments…
Linked – Companies Can’t Ask You to Shut up to Receive Severance, NLRB Rules
This might interest some folks who’ve recently been laid off.
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Who Can Work for You? The Answer to that Question Might Say Everything About Diversity
There’s a lot of talk coming from organizations about their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. Too many of them create opportunities that don’t match those words. Office jobs that require workers to be in one place, at the same…
Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 19, 2023
Trust is Easily Broken
Consider the message this sends to employees. This decision was made at a level above the person who is left to explain it to you. No one from that level wants to explain it or answer your questions. That’s not…
Linked – Wellbeing Programs: Are Organizations Addressing the Cause
Don’t let your programs be junk, fix the culture. Recognize how your culture contributes to the problem and then do something about it.
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Linked – A researcher tried to buy mental health data. It was surprisingly easy.
The US government spends a lot of time telling people to fear what Chinese companies could do with the data they get from our phones when we use something like TikTok, but they do nothing about things like this.
The…