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This is how you empower your team while maintaining strategic oversight

Work Life

Control hub (operational overreach) This quadrant is appropriate when employees lack the necessary skills, experience, or confidence to perform tasks independently. When leaders insist on controlling every aspect of a task, employees may feel disengaged and undervalued, leading to high turnover rates and low morale.

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Business owner beware: FLSA compliance and personal liability

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In fact, when considering lawsuits about back wages, the federal government has the authority to deem a business owner an “employer” if certain criteria are present under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Supervision and control of work schedules. Control or maintenance of employment records. Staying compliant.

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Power, Privilege & Controlling the Narrative: Vested Interests in ‘Mental Health’

Mad in America

Davies describes a comprehensive UK government report on the influence of the pharmaceutical industry the House of Commons Health Select Committee Report on the Pharmaceutical Industry. The post Power, Privilege & Controlling the Narrative: Vested Interests in Mental Health appeared first on Mad In America. The New Yorker.

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What Is Embodied Carbon And Why Does It Matter In Workspace Design?

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But without minimising embodied carbon in things like construction materials, we’re much less likely to achieve the goals set out in COP26. Building and construction are responsible for 39% of global carbon emissions , according to research. “We need an approved document for building control around embodied carbon.

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New Guidelines on How to Accurately Convey ADHD Information

Mad in America

The project was funded by ZonMW, an independent government body that finances research in health, healthcare and well-being. Most in the taskforce also agreed that the criteria for the ADHD construct to be used are highly subjective and contextually situated and there is a risk of pathologizing normal (or often functional) behavior.

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On Systemic Personal Boundary Violations, Low Self-Esteem, and Superiority Complex

Mad in America

Healthy personal boundaries need to be taught or role-modelled during childhood, but can still be built and constructed in later life, through healing trauma. The difficulty with other-esteem is that its source is outside of the person [beyond their control] and thus vulnerable to [manipulation].’

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One bright spot for the 2024 Election, no matter who wins

Work Life

It’s Election Day , the day that we collectively have a say in who our next President will be—and, depending upon where you live, in your state and local government officials, as well as various ballot measures and propositions. These decisions are fully in our control. Today is a big day for our country. And right now, the U.S.