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How Product Managers Can Use the 12-Week Year to Stay Focused and Deliver Results
- Adopting a 12-week cycle allows product managers to break goals into smaller deliverables.
- Shorter timeframes create urgency without causing burnout.
- Tracking progress weekly helps in assessing the status of the goals.
- The 12-week mindset helps product managers prioritize and say no to distractions.
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updates: my boss threatened himself, inappropriate music in a family-friendly store, and more
- Update #1 - After reporting her boss's inappropriate behavior, the department leader was let go and the company hired a new consultant, who was then let go after a week. The author was let go as well, but views it as a much-needed break and chance to recharge.
- Update #2 - The manager in question continued to play inappropriate music for over a month before switching to more mainstream songs. The author has since moved away from the job and is attending college for a degree in a better field.
- Update #3 - After meeting her dad's old colleague for coffee, The author decided to take over her dad's niche website after his passing and, in doing so, has continued to keep in touch with her dad's colleague.
- Update #4 - The author successfully secured a new job despite running for political office in the past with this still on her resume. She has learned from the experience and plans to remove it in the future.
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DOL: Managers cannot take pooled tips — even if they also perform tipped work
- Managers or supervisors of tipped workers cannot participate in a tip pool, even if they also perform tipped work, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
- A business owner with at least a 20% equity interest in the enterprise and actively engaged in its management is considered a manager or supervisor who cannot keep other employees' tips.
- However, managers or supervisors may keep tips received directly from customers based on the service they directly and solely provide.
- Employers have faced penalties for including salaried managers in tip pools, which is not a popular form of compensation among the public.
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Final rule to overhaul H-1B visa eligibility requirements takes effect Jan. 17
- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a final rule updating H-1B visa eligibility requirements to give employers greater flexibility in employing skilled foreign workers.
- The rule revises the definition of 'specialty occupation' and clarifies that qualifying degree fields must be directly related to a job's duties to meet the specialty occupation requirement.
- Other changes include updated definitions for nonprofit and governmental research organization categories and clarifying visa petition requirements.
- The rule will take effect on January 17, 2025.
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This week in 5 numbers: Workers are detached and feeling stuck
- Workers report feeling lonely, anxious, and trapped in their jobs
- 13% of workers experience loneliness at work
- Starbucks extends paid leave for birth parents to 18 weeks
- 51% of workers seeking new job opportunities
- 75% of companies unprepared for pay transparency laws
- Nearly 30,000 state jobs in California no longer require a degree
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Leading Thoughts for December 19, 2024
- Nido Qubein emphasizes that a transformational leader must prioritize honesty and integrate their personal and professional lives.
- Manu Kapur highlights the importance of seeing the deep structure and critical features in learning, even if it involves initial failure.
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The Santa Claus Clause: 3 Ways to Infuse Joy into Your Job This Holiday
- Teacher leadership needs to be like the Santa Claus Clause—to shift our focus to what we can give to the younger generation of students and teachers.
- When we are older, we have to shift our focus to giving joy and love to others.
- Greater joy comes from giving to others than from taking for ourselves.
- The payoff of giving might be delayed, but the joy is worth it.
- As a person grows older, they have to shift focus to becoming the person for someone else, like the older person who made their first days and years exciting.
- The legacy of a leader is defined by what they give to the younger generation, not by what they receive.
- COVID-19 has reminded us that almost everything owed to us as teachers can be taken away, but time spent building others up cannot.
- No pandemic can remove the legacy that a person leaves behind by giving what they have to the people they love.
- In summary, Teacher leadership should be about giving your time, energy, and expertise to build up the next generation of students and teachers.
- Becoming a Santa Claus for someone else can make this holiday season full of joy and hope.
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Helping Your Students Discern Between Wants and Needs
- Parents today believe they’ve done a good job if they give their child everything they want.
- When kids confuse wants and needs, they feel entitled to the item they desire.
- Kids can judge the love of their parents based on their willingness to deliver that item.
- This can lead to an invisible emotional wall between parent and teen.
- Teenagers don’t always understand life’s “social contract”.
- The Hot Air Balloon Exercise helps individuals force-rank what they really need to survive.
- Based on a recent US survey, today’s adults believe they need 1000% more items than those surveyed 50 years ago.
- Children may come down with affluenza, which causes them to confuse wants and needs.
- Michelle Singletary believes in thinking twice before spending money on things you don’t need.
- The happiest people are not the ones who have the most, but the ones who need the least.
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Develop Teams By Striving For Mastery, Not Self-Esteem
- By striving for self-esteem, you won't attain self-esteem, nor will you gain mastery.
- By striving for mastery, you may achieve mastery, and if you do, you won't need self-esteem anyway.
- Most of us work for economic gains, but the value of work goes beyond material rewards.
- True mastery is about excelling within the context of the task at hand, leaving behind superficial boasts and embracing meaningful accomplishments.
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update: I’m in charge of our disgusting office kitchen
- The person in charge of a disgusting office kitchen shares an update.
- Instead of rushing to clean, the person now adopts an apathetic attitude, leading others to take responsibility for cleaning.
- They have a dishwasher but people prefer leaving dirty dishes in the sink.
- The person does weekly fridge purges and implemented a system to discard unlabeled items.
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Mission menopause: Changing workplaces for good
- One in five people in the U.S. workforce are in some phase of menopause transition now—and few have the support they need.
- Maven's research shows that menopause benefits would impact the desire of 76% of millennials and 65% of Gen-Xers to stay at their current company.
- Join Maven Clinic and MiDOViA for a roadmap on transforming the menopause experience for employees and improving productivity and loyalty.
- Learn about actionable tips for creating a menopause-friendly work environment and building best-in-class menopause benefits at your company.
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my favorite posts of 2024
- 1. How much can I pet my cat on video calls?
- 2. I spent a ton of time helping 2 employees who hate each other... now they're dating
- 3. I think our intern prank-called us
- 4. Can I bring a friend-with-benefits back to my hotel on a work trip?
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IWriteYouRead ️
- Success is something we can choose to attract rather than repel.
- Knowledge must be organized and shared among trusted peers to secure its value.
- Change requires the willingness of all involved parties to work together.
- We need help from others to make a difference and accomplish our goals.
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Employers with strong employee value proposition innovate better, McLean says
- Organizations with a strong employee value proposition (EVP) report better results with generating new ideas, enabling workforce productivity, and fostering a sense of purpose in employees’ day-to-day work.
- Only 22% of organizations have an EVP, according to a report from McLean & Co.
- Organizations with an EVP are more likely to report higher overall organizational performance, innovation, and workforce productivity.
- Employees at organizations with an EVP are more likely to report a feeling of purpose in their day-to-day work.
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USDA Forest Service, IWSI America to launch national apprenticeship program
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the Institute for Workplace Skills & Innovation America are collaborating to launch a national apprenticeship program for forestry technicians.
- The program aims to address current and future staffing needs and provide career opportunities to underrepresented groups.
- Forestry technicians play a crucial role in the agency, but there is a turnover rate of about 10% annually.
- The apprenticeship program will help fill critical roles and pilot programs will be launched in multiple states by late 2025.
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