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I've noticed that some managers don't include themselves when they use the word "employees" in a statement.
Why else would they talk about "employees" in the third person?
As in:
"Employees must come back to the office."
"Employees must not ghost us."
"We are allowing employees to work from home two days a week."
I mean last I checked, everyone who is not the owner of a company is an employee?
#language #hierarchy #workplaceculture #management
Our mission at Plum is to help companies care better for the health of their people.
As we do this, we are building content properties that demonstrate care.
Do you care about the workplace, culture and wellbeing of employees? If yes, we are looking for you - our content team is growing and we are looking for a writer.
CC Nisha Shreyas Avinash
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Dear CEO,
You can't outsource #employeementalhealth to a shrink and pretend you have nothing to do with it.
Instead of jumping to hire an office therapist for *EMPLOYEE MENTAL HEALTH*, first hire a therapist to train *YOU AND EVERY SINGLE MANAGER* on what mental health really means.
(Hint: It's not about hooking people up with a 'wellness app' or yoga on Zoom.)
All of you who believed in a jobless writer with a silly idea: look what you did 🥺
I've been awarded the Journalist Fellowship by the Reuters Institute at Oxford. I'll research how to strengthen independent #mentalhealth #journalism in the global south 🙏🏿
I have so many thoughts right now. For someone who got used to living life lost, numb, and in permanent terror, flitted from pill to pill and clung to therapy just to survive - and almost didn't, it's a moment hard to believe. It's also a reminder of my endless privilege.
When I started Sanity by Tanmoy at the foot of my father's hospital bed in Dec 2020, days after losing a job I loved, I didn't dare imagine it'd last this long.
But then, a miracle. Friends of Sanity showed up by tens, hundreds, thousands from all over.
And they didn't leave.
Parents saying they learnt to connect with their children's struggles because of Sanity.
Strangers saying Sanity helped them feel less lonely.
Donors quietly sending SoS funds amd expecting nothing in return.
This validation has been overwhelming.
While building Sanity with all of you has been an amazing honour, the hardest part comes now. We have to make Sanity sustainable while staying true to its core values.
At the moment, we are still far from this goal.
As a solo creator treading uncharted ground, I've been in constant, exhausting operation mode for the past 16 months, managing everything from writing and design to social media to failed subscriptions.
The #creatoreconomy', propped up by the much hyped #newsletter boom, wasn't built for us in the global south.
Here everything from onboarding subscribers to collecting payments is a giant trapeze act. I have learnt a ridiculous amount in the past 16 months, but it's drained me.
This fellowship is me admitting that I am ready to accept help. I need time and space to take a step back from survival mode, breathe, and get clarity. I need the company and wisdom of fellow journalists and creators pursuing daunting ideas to imagine what is truly possible.
Sanity is small. The challenges it wants to take on are big.
The global mental health conversation remains badly broken.
Dominated by a handful of rich western countries.
And besotted with the biomedical model.
I believe in the idea Sanity represents more than ever.
And the reason for my belief is *you*.
I didn't set out to work in mental health.
I definitely didn't set out to become an #entrepreneur.
But here I am, because you helped me believe.
I still need a lot of help from you to keep Sanity alive.
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All solemn-sounding goals aside, perhaps this is also just a chance for me to prove to myself that I can do this. "Dream again," like my therapist keeps reminding me, when I find it hard to summon belief. Which is far too often.
May Sanity be with us.
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I don't usually share life advice posts, but this one gave me pause.
I'm 39, and some of the tips here are like gospel to me - except I had not articulated them to myself with this kind of clarity. I only hope I am able to maintain my convictions long after I cross over to the other side of 40.
Thank you Anita Zielina for sharing your wisdom with us. May we never forget lesson #20 on your list :)
I turned 42 today and while I do really NOT have the answer to everything, I thought I'd share some fully subjective reflections on what I learned about work and working along the way.
1. People who ignore you at conferences, meetings or parties until they know you're "important" are not worth your while. Remember them.
2. Ultimately, every career is just about the trust you build and the people you support, grow and help along the way.
3. Go into every conversation and every networking opportunity willing to give more than you take. You want to live your life with a positive balance sheet. Generosity always pays off in the end.
4. Your career is only yours, not your friends, colleagues, parents or headhunters. Career decisions are personal, and sometimes the best ones are the ones that no one but you understands.
5. At some point when you enter mid-career, you better start focusing on your strengths and how to strengthen them, not on how to get rid of your weaknesses. No one becomes exceptional at something because their weaknesses are a bit less pronounced.
6. If you haven't changed your habits and tackled your weaknesses by age 42, better learn to accept them, live with them, build a safety net to prevent them from doing damage and hire/get support to compensate for them.
7. Your To Do list will never, ever be truly empty. Accept it and stop chasing To Dos.
8. Relentless delegation and unapologetically saying No is the only path to focus and impact.
9. User Centered Design is great, but sometimes the world needs bold, untested ideas and confidence to take an uncharted path.
10. Change the things you can change, and quit when you can't change things anymore.
11. Don't work for free.
12. Always negotiate.
13. Never empower and support brilliant jerks.
14. If you have privilege of any kind, speak up when people are treated badly.
15. Go to that dinner, that party, that gathering.
16. Learn your personal value system, and stick to it. Always.
17. It's incredibly powerful to design your own job description.
18. Be relentless in your support and mentoring of others, especially folks less privileged than you.
19. Understand what gives you energy and resilience, and do more of it.
20. Never stop learning.
#leadership #career #work #life
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Kobus Olivier, #Ukraine Cricket's CEO, had to flee his country but is fighting to keep the game alive. He is working to offer psychological support to Ukrainian children. And he is using cricket as a tool to cope with trauma.
What a piece by Daniel Gallan.
https://t.co/4lX38iw8HO
Louder.
Don’t hire neurodivergent people BECAUSE they’re more productive.
Don’t hire neurodivergent people BECAUSE they’re systematic problem solvers.
Don’t hire neurodivergent people BECAUSE they’re full of great ideas.
Hire them because they are people, just like everybody else, that deserved to be hired.
If you’re only hiring to take advantage of *super skills* then you’re not so inclusive after all.
#JustNeurodivergentThings
I am not doing panels or tweeting about Mental Health Awareness Month.
Nothing against it, just that it was created by the US for the US.
Instead, I have launched a series on #suicideprevention in the global south.
Please read and share widely.
https://t.co/HXuxx2ZDRS
