If you’ve been paying attention around the ol’ Internet lately, I’m sure you’ve seen someone talk about an NFT, or at least how much money is being spent on buying up various NFT items at auctions. But what, exactly, is an NFT? (Non-fungible Token)… Read More The post An honest look at NFTs appeared first on Mike McBride Online. If you want to see more like this, consider subscribing to the RSS Feed.…

The first thing that jumped out at me is that I am very glad to see people taking learning into their own hands instead of waiting for their company to train them. I have always been a big fan of that. Your career, is your career, and you should act that way when it comes to learning new skills. The second thing I thought was, if 77% of people are ready to learn new skills, as a company, you need to step up and offer opportunities for people to do just that. Very few people are going to be happy…

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Now, I’ve left a few jobs over the years, including some that were remote, which I think is a new challenge for a lot of places right now. Most of the time, the departing employee is not exactly top of mind for the organization. You’ve got work to do, and they are no longer part of the plan. I get that, but somebody probably wants to at least pay attention to what the employee is doing on the way out. … Read More The post Linked: Offboarding tips will prevent employee data theft when people leave the company appeared first on…

Luckily, with everything having remote options now, it’s actually pretty easy to pop in and simply listen without really being noticed, or at least, feeling a bit better about not being noticed. And, really, you should. Everyone should. Not because you necessarily have anything to add, but because you have an opportunity to listen. Listening to different groups of people talk about their issues will open your eyes to the things that we, as white men, don’t notice. It gives us the opportunity to hear about racism and sexism that still happens to real people that we know and interact…

This NPR podcast offers some good tips for us as individuals, but I was glad to see that they also recognized that if work is causing us burnout, there’s another entity involved who needs to do something about it.… Read More The post Linked: 4 Ways To Deal With Burnout appeared first on Mike McBride Online. If you want to see more like this, consider subscribing to the RSS Feed.…

See, the question that should be asked is how AT&T can afford to give users all the video streaming they want over their network for HBO Max, but forces caps on all of its users for their internet usage. Clearly, their network can handle the traffic of unlimited video streaming, so why do we let them use these excuses to limit access to the internet?… Read More The post Linked: AT&T’s HBO Max Deal Was Never Free appeared first on Mike McBride Online. If you want to see more like this, consider subscribing to the RSS Feed.…

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There are 4 suggestions in the article below, and I encourage you to check them out and apply them in your workplace, toward everyone, but there’s something just so stereotypical that you can see a direct correlation between employee assistance programs and the number of women who work there. That tells me that we still, in 2021, expect men to just suck it up and not need help. That attitude is damaging, and in some cases killing, men as we speak. The same ones we work with everyday. Don’t we owe them more?… Read More The post Linked: 4 Ways …

Imagine a world where every technical skill you now have, will be somewhat useless in 5 years? Oh wait, we don’t have to imagine it:… Read More The post Linked: The current rate of technological change means careerlong-learning is now a must appeared first on Mike McBride Online. If you want to see more like this, consider subscribing to the RSS Feed.…

The statistics really speak for themselves, only 13% of employees would feel comfortable talking about their mental health struggles, while 89% of employees having mental health struggles know that they impact their work. That says a lot. It says that … Read More The post Linked: The UK’s Mental Health Issues in the Workplace – 5 statistics appeared first on Mike McBride Online. If you want to see more like this, consider subscribing to the RSS Feed.…

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I think the headline really speaks for the entire article. We can get all the self-care tips in the world, do yoga on the regular, eat well, and everything else, but if we work in a place that regularly requires 60 hour work weeks, ridiculous deadlines, and doesn’t really give us some control over work that we enjoy, that’s still going to be a recipe for burnout.  If you have any employees that report to you, go read the article and consider what it is that you are doing with your own workplace. Are they headed for burnout? Do you…