#people post by Mike Pearce

When do you ask R U OK? Can you ask any time? What if they are OK? Will they be upset? How do I know someone needs help?

The idea of off-boarding (or, #alighting) isn't particularly new: negotiate an exit, communicate the exit, cancel user accounts, return hardware etc. I don't believe that there is as much focus on offboarding as there is around onboarding and this, frankly, is a serious problem.

🍾 Bottomless Prosecco!

Knowledge management is a field that most of us take for granted. Any organisation will generate and store massive quantities of knowledge during a long enough period—knowledge like payroll to lessons learned, project outcomes to processes. Every bit of knowledge that your organisation needs to function as it currently does has to be stored somewhere and accessible by the right people.

Hiring is hard at the best of times. There are many ways to mess it up and make a mistake that you or your new hire may regret. You've got to decide which person from the list of candidates you're talking to is someone you want to work with for the next few months or even years. Doing that in the space of a few hours is difficult.

The New Normal - it's a horrible term. It feels like the current situation we find ourselves in is supposed to be normal. I'm not sure I want to go back to the old standard - there were some pretty crappy things about it - but I also don't want this normal. This edition talks about how we probably shouldn't be trying to create a new normal out of the current situation and offers some points to think about, now we're all mostly remote.