✅ Today’s checklist:
🤔 Riddle me this: I thrived on weekends and rewinds, now just a memory of film spines. Once found in every town, now only one store around. What am I? (Find the answer on the bottom).
🔮 Futurist: Experts guess the most in-demand workforce skills in the next decade.
🌱 Growth: How managers can inspire a growth mindset.
🗓️ Meetings: Mastering the art of the informal meeting, aka the “lean coffee” meeting.
💡 Focus: How much novelty should you be seeking at work?
👑 Leadership: How establishing a leadership definition can enhance your impact.
In a recent interview with Washington D.C. news outfit WTOP, a financial expert and venture capitalist spilled her secret for maintaining optimal productivity: microdosing psilocybin, the primary compound that gives magic mushrooms their seemingly magical psychedelic effects.
“So when you take a microdose, you don’t feel any high,” she told WTOP. “You only get the benefit of a psychedelic, which is rewiring your brain, neuroplasticity, lowering and calming your nervous system, which you need very much when you have a busy career.”
She says her microdosing strategy made her feel less distracted, more creative, and more capable of maintaining healthy relationships.
We’re by no means recommending microdosing to improve productivity. We’re simply sharing that it’s a topic gaining more and more interest in work management and mental health discussions.
The venture capitalist interviewed by WTOP felt so inspired by her productivity discovery that she wrote a book and launched a comprehensive initiative to spread awareness.
Major academic centers—including Johns Hopkins, UC Berkeley, NYU, and the University of Maryland—have launched research initiatives focused on psychedelic compounds.
🍄 The bottom line: How psilocybin impacts our work and our mental health will be a fascinating topic to follow over the next several years.
Employees who are recognized and rewarded for outstanding performance are more likely to repeat it!
Resulting in greater job satisfaction, motivation, and improved service quality for customers.
And if all of your employees experience that, then the positive effects are multiplied.
The sad reality is…it’s nearly impossible for busy managers and HR to manually and consistently reward employees.
That’s why over 3,400 companies use a revolutionary program—Bonusly—to automatically recognize and reward employees for exceptional performance…
The results?
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One TA reader wants to move on already:
I made a lateral move in my organization, and my biggest challenge is offloading the tasks associated with my old position so that I can really focus on my new one.
On paper, the transition looks so clean. Your start and end dates are clearly outlined on all the paperwork everyone signed. Everything looks so official, so organized, and so manageable.
In reality, job transitions are messy and uncertain. Switching to a different role in the same company can lead to the messiest and most uncertain job transitions. Yours doesn’t have to be like that.
Here are some tips for making your transition as clean, painless, and seamless as possible:
Instead of waiting and reacting…
No matter how long ago the switch happened, if you’re finding yourself shouldering any of your old responsibilities, then you might benefit from a retroactive transition and training plan.
Instead of silently shouldering the burden of training your replacement…
If the transitional training becomes too much for you to handle on top of your new responsibilities, then your new manager will have the context necessary to support you. (They might even speak to your replacement’s manager on your behalf.)
Instead of offering to support your replacement as needed…
Bonus: This tip only applies to situations where people are having a hard time letting go of their old responsibilities.
Instead of keeping an eye on your replacement…
“This work feels like ‘yours.’ But it’s not anymore,” she writes. Keep those words in mind the next time you feel yourself grasping for the old instead of embracing the new.
California teams: Have you completed the annual employee training requirement under the state’s new Workplace Violence Law? The deadline is July 1, 2024.
Traliant’s California Workplace Violence Prevention training will help you comply with this rapidly approaching mandate. Created by their in-house team of legal experts, the course fulfills CA requirements to equip your employees with the essential knowledge to address potential workplace violence threats.
The 25-minute training covers:
The course can be tailored to include your employer-specific workplace violence prevention plan and reporting protocols—elements required under CA law.
Don’t miss this critical compliance deadline!
Don’t be afraid to change jobs. The company you are at would lay you off in a heartbeat if they needed to, so no need to be blindly loyal.
If there’s a good opportunity that comes your way—take it.
Marcie C. (Sr. HR Manager)
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