These are the best ways to give and receive feedback | What to do when you're happier following than leading | Professional setting best for video health care visits
These are the best ways to give and receive feedback When giving feedback to your team members, let them know what they're doing right and how it impacts the success of the business, be specific about behaviors to keep doing, start doing or stop doing and deliver sensitive feedback in private, writes executive coach Scott Eblin. When receiving feedback, Eblin recommends asking for specific steps to take, examples of what improvement looks like and recruiting an accountability partner to help you make changes. Full Story: Eblin Group (5/15)
Young professionals seeking ample opportunities and high-paying roles may find better luck in the Sun Belt, according to new data from LinkedIn. The fastest-growing job markets for entry-level roles are Tucson, Ariz.; Tallahassee, Fla.; and Gainesville, Fla. These regions are attracting new grads with opportunities in manufacturing, government administration and education, respectively. Full Story: WRC-TV (Washington, D.C.) (5/14)
What to do when you're happier following than leading Ascending to a leadership role is expected in the business world, but those unprepared for the stress and enjoy task-based work instead of process-based strategizing and problem-solving may find themselves burning out as a leader, writes Art Markman, a professor and vice provost for academic affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Focus on the things that satisfy you, Markman advises, because "the joy you get from your work will come from the job itself, rather than from its perks." Full Story: Fast Company (tiered subscription model) (5/15)
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Professional setting best for video health care visits Patients are more confident in the quality of video health care visits when the clinician's background looks like a professional setting than when it shows a kitchen or bedroom, according to an article in JAMA Network Open. An unadorned, solid-color background or a background depicting a home office displaying diplomas or credentials and a bookshelf also give patients confidence, researchers found. Full Story: HealthDay News (5/16),MedPage Today (free registration) (5/15)
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Execs: Consider alternatives to layoffs Employers should try to move employees to new jobs, other parts of the company or part-time roles before carrying out layoffs, which can have a negative effect on business, say executives, who also suggest salary freezes as an alternative. "I would ask every business to find ways to treat their workers as partners with whom they share their dreams, fears, hopes and goals, while demonstrating to them how they too can achieve their goals while working with you on your dream," says Henry Lukenge, CEO of Nexim Healthcare Consultants. Full Story: The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (tiered subscription model) (5/14)
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18 states challenge feds' guidance on transgender workers The attorneys general of 18 Republican-led states have filed a lawsuit arguing that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's guidance on federal workplace protections for transgender people improperly expands Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The guidance allows employers to face liability if they purposely refer to workers by pronouns that do not align with their gender identity, fail to let workers use bathrooms in accordance with their gender identity, or harass a worker whose appearance is different from what is commonly "associated with that person's sex." Full Story: NBC News (5/14),The Tennessean (Nashville) (tiered subscription model) (5/14)
Smaller groups of diners and four-day weeks are taking over at many restaurants seeking better finances and work-life balance, say chefs including Aaron Adams, of plant-based Astera and Il Paffuto in Portland, Ore., noting, "We are done trying to be everything to everyone." The approach allows employees to get 40 to 45 hours of pay plus three days off each week, and restaurateurs who decline large parties say they avoid the inevitable lost revenue. Full Story: The Washington Post (5/15)
Pennsylvania gets ahead of 18K state job retirements Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro signed an executive order at a state job fair to make public service jobs more attractive amid an impending retirement wave of 18,000 workers, a quarter of the state workforce, in the next five years. The job fair featured 40 state agencies recruiting for nearly 600 positions. The order establishes the HIRE Committee to pioneer initiatives such as recruitment incentives, mentorship programs, expanded childcare and mental health support. Full Story: Governing (5/14)
Dorothy Jean Tillman II at Black Girls Rock in 2018. (Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images)
The amazing thing about 18-year-old Dorothy Jean Tillman II's graduation from Arizona State on May 6 isn't that she whizzed through college at the same age as many start college -- but that she earned a Ph.D. in that time. The Chicago native, known as "Dorothy Jeanius" to friends and family, started college courses at age 10 and successfully defended her dissertation in December in integrated behavioral health. She will now be referred to as Dr. Dorothy Jeanius. Full Story: The Associated Press (5/14)
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AI futurist Fei Fei Li helped develop which imaging technology used to train AI systems?
