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Good Way to Develop Those “Soft” Skills People Are Always on About – Train Others
ByMike McBride October 12, 2023October 11, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

If you want to challenge yourself to learn something deeply, start figuring out how you would train someone to do it. If your employer doesn’t have an opening for a full-time trainer, create some opportunities to cross-train with your team, to reach out across teams and help teach them some of your skills, or to introduce them to some new technology that is coming. The skills you develop with come in handy, and you’ll be showing off some serious leadership skills as well, something that is probably in short supply in your industry. It is in most, anyway.

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SocialNetworking

It Feels Like Facebook Punted on Pages
ByMike McBride October 11, 2023October 11, 2023 Reading Time: 5 minutes

So, when I saw that Facebook was going to start letting people create multiple profiles and that it was really targeted toward people with different interests, or small business owners and freelancers who wanted a Facebook presence for their work apart from their personal profile, I immediately thought, isn’t that what Pages were for? Isn’t that exactly what Pages were promoted as being, a place for the “brand” apart from your personal profile? And isn’t this just a tacit acknowledgment that, outside of huge corporate brands, Facebook broke Pages for everyone else?

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Security

Linked – With Increased Cybersecurity Awareness, Why Does Phishing Still Work?
ByMike McBride October 10, 2023October 10, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute

You have to create a culture where everyone is expected to verify information before acting, even when it’s coming from the CEO or Managing Partner.

What are you doing to create an environment where your people feel free to take the time necessary to evaluate the difference between a scam and legitimate communication and the ability to question authority in order to get more information?

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Training

Linked – Tell Me Seven Times. No – Make that Three.
ByMike McBride October 5, 2023October 5, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute

Sometimes communicating effectively feels a lot like over-communicating. Especially if your team is hybrid or remote, go ahead and over-communicate. There’s no telling how much better your team will understand what you were trying to tell them when they hear or see it a number of times.

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Security

Consumer Reports Has an App To Help with Privacy
ByMike McBride October 4, 2023October 4, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

What would happen to the personalized advertising space if it was easy enough for most of us to opt out of data collection? As easy as Consumer Reports claims this tool is, we might find out.

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Training

Empathy as a Trainer
ByMike McBride September 28, 2023September 27, 2023 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Make sure you are exercising those empathy muscles. They’ll help you understand where everyone is trying to go, and they’ll help you care enough to want to help them get there. That’s learning and development in a nutshell to me.

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