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Employees Keep Getting Sick? How to Improve the Health and Wellness in Your Office
- Employees getting sick can negatively impact office productivity and morale.
- Implementing a thorough cleaning routine can help prevent the spread of germs and diseases in the office.
- Allowing slightly sick employees to work from home can reduce the transmission of illnesses among the team.
- Promoting mental health support, such as therapy coverage or mental health days off, can improve overall well-being in the office.
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The Trouble With Job Descriptions
- Job descriptions can be limiting and restrictive, leading to employees feeling pigeon-holed in their specific roles and reluctant to engage with other areas within the organization.
- In a team or organization, rigid job identities lead to fragmentation and silos, with a breakdown of unified vision and execution.
- This can lead to a lack of psychological safety and trust, ultimately resulting in a dysfunctional team and conflicting priorities.
- Admiral Rickover proposed a management framework that focuses on general responsibilities without formal job descriptions or organizational charts.
- Creating a flexible and inclusive environment that allows employees to seek out added work and greater responsibility can help encourage growth and innovation.
- While job descriptions may have benefits such as helping with onboarding, they can become rigid as businesses evolve and change.
- This can hinder collaboration, stifle talent, and harm the organization’s overall success.
- Rickover's approach fosters a self-reliant culture where individuals earn respect through their abilities rather than rigidly defined roles.
- To encourage cohesion and employee retention, it may be beneficial for companies to move away from overly specific and restrictive job descriptions.
- Instead, a flexible and inclusive environment may lead to greater success and collaboration for early-stage companies where human capital is vital.
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Medium
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The Future of Product Leadership: What Will Define Great PMs in 2025
- In 2025, outcomes will drive product strategy, not just outputs.
- The best product leaders in 2025 will spend more time with customers than in stakeholder meetings.
- Product leaders in 2025 will need to take calculated risks and balance experimentation with data-driven intuition.
- The ability to align without authority will be crucial for standout product leaders in 2025.
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Leadgrowdevelop
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Fitting a New Office? Top Features to Add to Your Design
- Efficient essentials such as plumbing, water heating, and air conditioning are important in a well-designed office.
- Providing ergonomic furniture and a designated break room for stretching supports employees' health and wellbeing.
- Designing various workspaces to accommodate different work styles promotes employee productivity and satisfaction.
- Amplifying natural light through windows and mirrors positively impacts happiness and job satisfaction.
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Leadgrowdevelop
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Enhancing Your Online Reach with Smart Digital Solutions
- Choosing a local business promotion option is essential in this digitalised world.
- Understanding and knowing the audience you wish to target are among the important ingredients to achieving a successful digital strategy.
- Your website is the ground floor of your online presence; it is the primary meeting ground where you and a prospect come together.
- Paid advertising is a fast-track route to visibility, and ad retargeting increases the probability of conversion.
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The Benefits of Using a Digital Mailbox Suite for Entrepreneurs
- A digital mailbox suite offers enhanced organization for entrepreneurs by centralizing mail and important documents.
- It improves accessibility, allowing users to view and manage their mail from anywhere via the internet or mobile apps.
- Using a digital mailbox suite is cost-effective, reducing operational expenses compared to traditional mailing services.
- It encourages sustainable business practices by reducing paper usage and attracting eco-conscious consumers.
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HRM Asia
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Is belonging the future of workplace diversity?
- Walmart's shift from DE&I to 'belonging' sparks debate and reevaluation of diversity initiatives.
- Walmart announced it would no longer use the term 'DE&I' and reversed several related policies.
- The focus on 'belonging' emphasizes creating an inclusive environment for all associates, customers, and suppliers.
- Experts suggest promoting shared decision-making, encouraging risk-taking, and building a feedback culture to foster inclusion.
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Askamanager
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updates: employee chews tobacco at his desk, old school’s awful mentoring program, and more
- An employee has stopped using tobacco at work after being told that it is not allowed on company property, a manager using the advice given by the blog. The employee is always asking how he can get further in the company without truly appearing interested in developing in his role.
- A family friend reached out to the writer for career advice, and despite an early mishap with the wrong phone number, the writer continued to offer advice to the family friend's son. The chance encounter led to the writer forging her own path, eventually co-authoring a book with the founder of a college grad program and launching a company to advance social justice and care/support around the world.
- One reader of the blog found that an old high school mentorship program still had issues reaching out to its alumni. The program still had the same tags, didn't appear to personalize its requests, and sent out a lot of unwanted alarms. While the program is still struggling, the writer did not want to penalize kids who helped because they may want to become mentors.
- A workplace problem with a co-worker who talked about his religion all the time resolved itself after the co-worker left the company on his own. The writer didn't have to worry about the issue any longer.
- A writer of the blog who had a problem with colleagues missing scheduled meetings and not providing necessary information was working in a dysfunctional organization that made it difficult to change things for the better despite the millions of dollars that were put on the line for projects that helped students and the underserved community.
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Medium
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Engineering’s Business Value: From Black Box to Clarity
- Technology has traditionally been viewed as a cost center and impacted by layoffs and reduction-in-force initiatives, but Value Stream Management (VSM) practices can address the challenge of linking and communicating the ROI of engineering investments.
- VSM aligns work with value streams that deliver measurable business and customer outcomes for accurate tracking of costs, ROI, and value delivery at the team and product level.
- Modern organizations are solving cost reduction challenges through intentional team design, using stable, cross-functional teams with dedicated software engineers and selective sharing of specialized roles across a limited number of teams.
- Defining clear, measurable outcomes and improving visibility can help establish frameworks that articulate the tangible value technology brings to the business, address unnecessary overhead, and avoid layoffs caused by poor resource planning.
- Technology success stems from excelling in two core areas: flow and realization. Structured OKRs can bridge these areas by translating organizational strategy into team-level objectives and ensuring every technical effort connects directly to business outcomes.
- Success lies in whether work delivered creates valuable outcomes and the ability to gain insights even when results fall short of expectations, empowering teams to refine their approach or pivot entirely.
- Starting with anticipated outcomes enables teams to develop meaningful OKRs that align with broader strategic objectives, define clear customer-centric goals and connect directly to the organization’s strategic direction.
- Measurable business features and technical debt investments, when linked to specific outcomes, become strategic initiatives with identifiable business value, rather than “mysterious maintenance work”.
- By documenting both anticipated and actual outcomes at the epic level, teams can refine their approach and make strategic decisions that drive growth, while justifying investments and creating a roadmap for long-term success.
- By closing the gap between investment and impact, organizations can transform how they view technology, from a cost center to a catalyst for innovation, growth, and customer satisfaction.
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Medium
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Profitable Engineering: Linking Software Engineering to Business Results
- This three-part series aims to show a direct connection between software engineering and business results.
- It provides practical insights and strategies to shift the perspective of technology as a cost center.
- The articles cover topics such as redefining the value of technology, evolving engineering as a strategic partner, and shifting towards delivering meaningful outcomes.
- The series encourages readers to transform their approach and align technology with measurable outcomes.
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Medium
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Candice Matthews Brackeen: Leading with Grit, Vision, and Purpose
- Candice Matthews Brackeen is a trailblazing venture capitalist, educator, and advocate for diversity in entrepreneurship.
- As the General Partner of Lightship Capital and CEO of the Lightship Foundation, she is reshaping the venture capital landscape, supporting underrepresented founders.
- Candice has been recognized as one of the Top 10 Women Venture Capitalists by The Wall Street Journal.
- Through Lightship Capital, she leads investments in groundbreaking startups and provides strategic guidance for their successful scaling.
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Askamanager
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update: my employee makes up words and is impossible to understand
- An update has been shared on the employee who made up words and was impossible to understand, whose story was previously featured in a letter to Ask a Manager.
- The writer of the original letter attempted to follow the advice of grounding discussions with the employee in creating a shared understanding, but ultimately opted to focus on work quality issues instead.
- This approach did not go much better, as the employee continued to make up nonsensical words and phrases during conversations about performance.
- The employee's language choices and pronunciation have caused confusion and left the writer feeling gaslit about their communication abilities.
- The situation has been complicated further by the revelation that the employee is listed as currently working at another company in an identical role, despite being full-time in their current job.
- When asked about this, the employee denied it and HR did not pursue the matter any further.
- The writer has become disenchanted with their current employer and is considering a job change in the future.
- They have decided to stop trying to improve the problem with the employee in question and instead focus on finding a new role elsewhere.
- They have been open with their boss and HR about the difficulties in managing this employee, but have not received much support.
- The writer concludes by saying that they hope the next time they write in, it will be with a new and interesting problem at a new job.
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Insider
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Business leaders share 5 ways they're taking AI from pilot to use case
- Business leaders are looking to turn artificial intelligence (AI) from a buzzword to a practice, and are adopting five approaches to do so, according to discussions held by the Workforce Innovation board. These include identifying early adopters, such as human resources, and investing in ongoing training to drive education and adoption. Members also stressed the importance of peer-to-peer learning opportunities and of finding customer pain points that could benefit from AI assistance. Responsible leadership from people managers was another area highlighted by board members.
- Clients at Accenture were found to have implemented AI in many areas, but had yet to create a coherent business case for the technology, the company's group chief executive, Jack Azagury, said. Infosys' executive vice president Anant Adya added that companies would need to become AI-first in their own operations before they could recommend the use of AI to clients, and Mastercard's chief talent and organizational-effectiveness officer, Lucrecia Borgonovo, called on firms to also consider providing re-skill training for job roles affected by AI.
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Hrexecutive
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The Power of Recognition in Healthcare: Arkansas Children’s Workhuman Experience
- Arkansas Children’s Health System and Workhuman collaborated to revolutionize workforce communities through strategic recognition in the healthcare sector.
- The webinar explores Arkansas Children's brand-new recognition program and its transformative journey towards a more impactful and measurable recognition strategy.
- Key topics discussed include practical takeaways for organizations navigating recognition strategies in healthcare, pivotal conversations with stakeholders, and engagement and retention metrics.
- Arkansas Children's aims for 60-80% adoption of the recognition program in the first year.
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Medium
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Session Tracking And URL Rewriting
- Session tracking is a mechanism used to allocate requests to a session.
- URL rewriting and cookies are commonly used for session tracking.
- URL rewriting transmits session-relevant data through parameters in a URL.
- URL rewriting can become messy and error-prone, especially for complex web applications.
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