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Becoming More Assertive: How to Express Yourself, Give Feedback, and Set Boundaries
Do you know that feeling, when you are brave enough to say ‘NO’ and then you don’t feel comfortable about it? This article provides a proper understanding of what an assertiveness skill is. You will learn how to identify the communication skills we need to work on to become more assertive, and get information about the characteristics and skills of assertive people.
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Making Time for Our Mental Health and Well-Being within the Hybrid / Remote Workplace
So often, well-intended hybrid/remote organisations and leaders will focus on surface level mental health/well-being support initiatives. This article will highlight the importance of addressing this important topic from a holistic perspective, addressing systemic processes and policies to ensure they have the “whole person” in mind.
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The Most Common Developer Challenges That Prevent a Change Mindset—and How to Tackle Them
Software engineers are feeling burnt out, and this is directly affecting their productivity and ability to learn new skills. But in today’s ever-growing digital world, developers must be on top of new technologies and tools. Team leaders, therefore, need to cultivate a change mindset by adopting a business-impact-first approach and learning from startup environments, among other tips.
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Extinguishing IT Team Burnout through Mindfulness and Unstructured Time
Burnout is taking a toll on IT and creating serious skill shortages. How can you keep your IT team engaged, productive, and happy? Mindfulness and unstructured time are delivering tangible business benefits that positively impact the bottom line, all while driving worker satisfaction and well-being.
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The IT Leader’s Guide to Helping Developers Avoid Burnout
The developer workforce has become increasingly distributed over the past two-plus years, contributing to new levels of stress. There are things IT can help leaders do to prepare for the future of software development, yet still ensure their teams have the tools and resources they need to keep individuals engaged, motivated, and fulfilled by their work.
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How to Reduce Burnout in IT Security Teams
Burnout isn't a selfcare problem. The information security industry needs to take a deeper examination and create changes to allow for workers to have more flexibility and the ability to have balanced personal and work life. This article serves as a starting point by breaking down why burnout exists in InfoSec, why past solutions don’t work anymore, and how to actually reduce burnout in teams.
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Takeoff: What Software Development Can Learn from Aviation
A lot of professions have been around way longer than software development and have developed "best practices" to handle typical problems and challenges. Software developers can benefit from taking a closer look at aircraft maintenance or a pilot’s processes to learn from them, optimize our processes. and last but not least, try to reduce some of the stress that we experience over and over again.
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The Three Symptoms of Toxic Leadership and How to Get out of It
None of us are born toxic leaders, but anyone can easily become one. In the past several years, workplaces have started to feel the effects of “toxic leadership.” Now is the time to educate everyone on the importance of speaking right, doing right, treating each other right in the workplace, and above all, being a non-toxic leader.
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Preventing Transformational Burnout through Collaboration, Transparency, Feedback, and Coaching
Burnout is not only an individual issue; it happens in teams and organizations. This article explores probable sources of mental breakdowns, lack of motivation and confidence, along with types of burnout, and describes the role agile coaches and organizational leaders can therefore play in addressing burnout.
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Becoming More Efficient and Productive in a Distracted World
This article highlights how increased distractions in agile teams can affect our mental health and cause burnout. It outlines how various productivity hacks can help to reduce this problem and make you highly efficient using real-life experiences. Finally, it discusses various steps the software industry can take to help preserve our mental health and reduce distractions.
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Breaking the Taboo – What I Learned from Talking about Mental Health in the Workplace
Mental illness is a topic that does not get discussed openly very often. Many people concerned hide their own history for fear of being stigmatized, especially in the workplace. This is a story about how speaking openly about mental illness, even with your boss and co-workers, can help yourself and others. The author shares with you what she has learned from breaking the taboo.
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Success or Burnout? Q&A on How Personal Agility Can Help
How can you find out if you’re being successful or heading for a burnout? The only person who can really answer that question is you. A Q&A with Peter Stevens and Maria Matarelli who spoke about success or burnout and personal agility at eXperience Agile 2018.