First off, the headline is accurate, it is very likely that your company doesn’t care about really developing you, unless they have a specific benefit from it. Secondly, this is just a sad statement on management today: “Unfortunately, organizations today are unknowingly leaving employees with skill gaps and blind spots that can derail careers and…
Anyone who’s ever done any technology training has seen this: “What are some of the common disruptive behaviors we see? Side conversations, excessive cell phone use, and participants who tend to dominate discussions are just a few. There are also latecomers and resistant learners. It’s not always easy to determine the cause of these behaviors,…
This is true, what is also true is that most of these things would be mitigated, and the spread of the virus also mitigated, by having remote employees. The reasons vary as to why workers didn’t use all of their paid sick leave: roughly 73% said they weren’t sick enough, 37% wanted to save them…
Over the weekend, we took a tour of Laura Plantation, about an hour down the Mississippi River from our house. The tour includes a walk through one of the old slave cabins, and the guide talked a bit about not just what a slaves life on a sugar plantation would have been, but also what…
This is the world we live in, it’s not enough to not be online and, therefore, have no risk of embarrassment. Not being online is kind of suspicious in itself, and people are looking: While digital footprints are considered to be a liability, if managed well they can be an asset. Digital footprints can showcase…
It’s also an important “soft” skill for your career, and in short supply. Helene Moore, PsyD, MAPP, clinical health psychologist at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Northwestern Medicine, says that anyone can train themselves to be a better listener. What’s more? Becoming a better listener is sure to have a positive impact on…