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Linked – Personal Posts Absolutely Belong on LinkedIn
“We didn’t quite read the whole definition – we all got a bit caught up in “productive and successful” there. Let’s try it again: to connect the world’s professionals to enable them to be more productive and successful. Ahh, that little word at the start seems to have slipped our minds. LinkedIn is about connection.”…
Linked – I’m Just a Low-Level Employee. I Don’t Need a Personal Brand
It’s true, having an online presence can be helpful. It can be hurtful too, especially if you don’t think hiring managers might look for you online and make a decision based on what they find. Wouldn’t it be better to present yourself professionally, knowledgeable, and relevant?
Linked – Time to Talk About Emotional Labor
Words about your workplace’s great culture ring hollow when team members regularly find themselves putting up with jerks. That’s not a great culture. That’s extra emotional labor—labor that likely doesn’t come close to matching what they are paid.
We don’t talk about this in terms of emotional labor. We talk about being resilient, staying composed, etc. We don’t talk about how exhausting it is to know that every day at work, someone is likely to yell at you, let alone know that when it happens, there will be no solution to prevent it from happening again. If they take the time to complain and ask for a solution, they’ll be told it’s “just part of the job.”
Linked: Use Multi-Factor Authentication – It Blocks 99.9% of Account Takeover Attacks
The number of logins that have been part of a hack, and the tools available to crack passwords, have reached the point where a password, no matter how complex it is, isn’t really enough: “If the service provider supports multi-factor authentication, Microsoft recommends using it, regardless if it’s something as simple as SMS-based one-time passwords,…
Going to Training
I really enjoyed this post by Kevin Eikenberry yesterday. Read This Before You Attend Your Next Training Session It reminded me of many of my pet peeves when doing training internally, let alone now that I’m an outside trainer. See if this sounds familiar: You send your folks out to a day of training on…
