Thanks to Amy Bowser-Rollins for letting me be one of the case studies on her Litigation Support Guru site. It was sort of fun to think about my answers and get them written, hopefully they provide some insight for someone!
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So you want to have your own website and play around with different tools and technologies? Great, just don’t leave a project sitting too long, bad things happen. Case in point, over on the Child Abuse Survivor site, I had created a sub-domain with it’s own WordPress Multi-User install (back when that was a separate…
Before I get started, I’ve got to say I had a good time meeting up with other bloggers last night. Kevin O’Keefe organized the event and picked up the tab, which was awesome. Got a chance to meet and chat with a few fellow bloggers, who I won’t even try to link to, because I…
Take a hard look at what leaders are saying about layoffs and what they focus on. Do they seem personally hurt and concerned for the people leaving? Do they have honest and transparent explanations for why they made these decisions? Or do they repeat platitudes about “recession,” costs, and other bits of financial jargon to explain away something so painful to the same people they were calling part of the family a week ago?
Families don’t cut the number of kids when money gets tight. Your workplace is not a family and does not deserve a level of commitment that matches your family or your health. Layoffs are sometimes necessary, but mostly just a nice tool to perk up the value of a company for a specific part of the structure or to make up for mistakes made by the same people making these job cuts.
That’s business. I’ve argued for years that business has a vested interest in employee well-being. Caring about your people is how you get their best. I hope leaders will continue to grow in that regard, but as an individual employee, you need to care about yourself more. If your job isn’t meeting your career needs in terms of money, development, or work-life balance, find a better one. You owe them nothing. They pay you to do a job until they decide not to. You owe them that work.
That is all.
Today was the last scheduled Summation training class for this batch of training, and it proved to be one of the most interesting. Breaking the training up into hour long segments, each focusing on an individual part of the Summation tool, was definitely the right way to go. Instead of trying to cram things into…
LinkedIn is betting that you would. I suppose this feature is great for people who would write a recommendation, if they had the time, or knew how to write a good recommendation. On the other hand, while the time involved is probably a big part of why people don’t write recommendations on LinkedIn, it’s not…
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Your case study has already encouraged two people coming from the IT side. Thanks so much for your insight.