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9 reasons good employees leave — and how to prevent it

CIO Governance

News of the Great Resignation isn’t overblown. Some 4 million people quit their jobs in July, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. And companies reported a record-breaking high of 10.9 million open positions. The IT profession is feeling the effects of that churn, with 80% of tech managers saying they’ve seen an increase in turnover in 2021, according to staffing firm Robert Half.

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Two Warnings re Climate Change

Recovery Diva

I naction on climate change imperils millions of lives, doctors say. [link] Top medical journal warns that rising temperatures will worsen heat and respiratory illness and spread infectious disease. The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future [link] Thanks to Ilan Kelman for this link.

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Pandemic Flux Syndrome — Dealing With Your Mental Health

Disaster Zone

The length of the pandemic has had significant impacts.

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An Open Letter to the Electrical Inspection Community

National Fire Protection Association

Many of you in this community are aware of the recent announcement by IAEI (International Association of Electrical Inspectors) to create a partnership/alliance with the ICC (International Code Council). Since making that announcement, NFPA has received numerous questions and inquiries from stakeholders in the electrical inspection arena as to what that means for the long-time relationship. [[ This is a content summary only.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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New DHS Strategic Framework on Climate Change

Disaster Zone

Truly a framework and not a "thud" book of content.

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5 Key Questions to Ask Backup and Disaster Recovery Providers

Solutions Review

Solutions Review lists the five questions you need to ask backup and disaster recovery providers when you’re evaluating platforms. For five key backup and disaster recovery questions to ask yourself, consult our Backup and Disaster Recovery Buyer’s Guide. At a basic level, data backup is a replication of data placed on a separate device or in a different location.

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Taking Care of Business: How to Write a Business Recovery Plan

MHA Consulting

Last time, we looked at how to write recovery plans to protect your organization’s computer systems and applications. In today’s post we’re going to lay out how to write plans … The post Taking Care of Business: How to Write a Business Recovery Plan appeared first on MHA Consulting.

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ESG Risk Assessment Template

LogisManager

FREE Excel Sheet Download: ESG Risk Assessment Template Download Your Copy. Companies are being pressured today more than ever before to justify their Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) status. But many don’t know where to begin. Taking a risk-based approach to ESG is the best way to ensure success from start to finish. By objectively identifying ways in which you’re already in line with ESG best practices, you can better evaluate the risks to your ESG status: Is your loan granting progr

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How Sally Beauty Minimizes Loss & Protects Lone Workers

Alert Media

The post How Sally Beauty Minimizes Loss & Protects Lone Workers appeared first on AlertMedia.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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Access Assurance now generally available in Citrix Analytics for Security

Citrix

At Citrix, we’ve long held the position that work isn’t a place, it’s a thing you do. Workplace strategies have been forced to evolve since the beginning of 2020, and all signals point to hybrid and remote work environments becoming … The post Access Assurance now generally available in Citrix Analytics for Security first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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ESG Risk Assessment Template

LogisManager

FREE Excel Sheet Download: 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for IT Vendor Risk Management Tools Download Your Copy. Companies are being pressured today more than ever before to justify their Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) status. But many don’t know where to begin. Taking a risk-based approach to ESG is the best way to ensure success from start to finish.

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Why Citrix Converge is the best place for the microapp curious

Citrix

Are you curious about microapps ? Don’t be shy about this new technology! Are manual processes bogging down your customers’ operations? Do they long for less busy work? More automation? More time for employees to focus on work that grows … The post Why Citrix Converge is the best place for the microapp curious first appeared on Citrix Blogs. Related Stories Citrix Converge 2021: Everything you need to know 大切なデータを保護す

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Support Your Workforce with Health Literacy

BMC

October is Health Literacy Month, and it’s a great opportunity to stop, listen to your mind and body, see a healthcare provider if necessary, and make sure you understand the information you receive. We have all had to learn to live with new circumstances, often with additional responsibilities, and may not have paid as much […].

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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Citrix and 10ZiG: Innovations for today’s modern workforce

Citrix

This is a guest blog post by Michele Pelusi, Marketing Manager, 10ZiG Technology. Work Smarter. For more than a decade, 10ZiG Technology has been a leader in supporting customers with Citrix innovations. It only makes sense for 10ZiG to … The post Citrix and 10ZiG: Innovations for today’s modern workforce first appeared on Citrix Blogs. Related Stories Design virtually from anywhere: Siemens NX on Citrix Cloud Empower your hybrid workforce with Citrix and IGEL Technology How to deliver gre

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#AcronisCyberFitSummit Sponsor Spotlight: Pax8

Acronis

Acronis is delighted to welcome Pax8 as an executive sponsor of the Acronis #CyberFit Summit in Miami. Before the event, we connected with Jennifer Bodell, Pax8’s SVP of Global Channel, for a sneak peek of some of the new tech Pax8 has coming down the line, gain some great MSP business advice, and much more.

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The benefits of Citrix Application Delivery Management and pooled licensing

Citrix

Enterprise IT is undergoing a major shift, and traditional in-house datacenter-based application deployment models are fast transitioning to cloud-based models. These cloud-based models require flexible and consistent application delivery technologies as well as flexible licensing models that can enable easy … The post The benefits of Citrix Application Delivery Management and pooled licensing first appeared on Citrix Blogs.

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When should nonprofits outsource IT support?

Online Computers

IT is integral to the operations of for- and nonprofit organizations alike. Email is necessary for communications, customer relationship management systems for keeping tabs on people they’re serving, and project management platforms for distributing workloads and ensuring milestones are met. From afar, it looks like both types of organizations aren’t so different when it comes to using technology and requiring IT support.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha

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Engaging Different Types of Practitioners in the Complex Social Policy Area of Adverse Childhood Experiences

The Rand Blog

Understanding how stakeholders make sense of and prioritise available evidence can help improve the policies and practices that affect people's lives. A modified Delphi approach could engage with stakeholders with different, overlapping expertise and help open a way to this understanding.

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Security Industry Association Unveils Program for 2021 Securing New Ground Conference

Security Industry Association

Top C-suite leaders, cybersecurity experts and business luminaries will headline the security industry’s executive conference taking place as a virtual event Oct. 28. SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has announced the 2021 agenda and speaker lineup for Securing New Ground (SNG), the security industry’s executive conference, taking place Oct. 28 as a virtual event.

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The Definition of Mobilisation

The Rand Blog

In Australia, the prevailing view of mobilisation is that it is an activity associated with going to war. But it should also include preparing for, and where possible, preventing a range of potential hazards, as well as supporting subsequent recovery efforts.

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Tools Used (and Lessons Learned) in Pure’s Python 3 Upgrade

Pure Storage

Recently, our team successfully upgraded Pure Storage’s code base to Python 3 to be compatible with newer versions of Ubuntu. Within our own code base, some teams were working on converting their code on different schedules, so it was inevitable that we would have to support both Python 2 and Python 3 simultaneously. In this post, I’ll share how we supported both Python 2 and Python 3, tools we found useful, how we dealt with some of the limitations of these tools, and how we handled some of the

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Support Your Workforce with Health Literacy

BMC

October is Health Literacy Month, and it’s a great opportunity to stop, listen to your mind and body, see a healthcare provider if necessary, and make sure you understand the information you receive. We have all had to learn to live with new circumstances, often with additional responsibilities, and may not have paid as much […].

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IT leaders confident in their organization’s network security, IT managers have doubts

Behavior Group

While IT leaders believe they have strong security practices in place, their continual search for additional network security capabilities suggests that this confidence may be tentative, according to a survey conducted by IDG. Data shows that 70% of IT leaders strongly agree that their network architecture follows a zero-trust approach, compared to just 53% of… Continue reading.

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Call for SIA Board Nominations

Security Industry Association

The Security Industry Association (SIA) Nominations Committee welcomes nominations of individuals to serve on the SIA Board of Directors. . Board Eligibility and Term. Any employee of a SIA Regular Member company in good standing may apply to be considered by the SIA Nominations Committee. The Nominations Committee will present candidates for consideration to the SIA membership on March 22, 2022, at The Advance , SIA’s annual membership meeting held during ISC West.

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Personal Resilience

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 80: Personal Resilience Vanessa’s guest is Marie Hale, cofounder and visionary at @revenue, the innovative Chicago sales and marketing agency. The topic is personal resilience. Vanessa defines personal resilience as the “ability to absorb an impact or disruption and be able to bounce back.” Marie has thought a lot about personal resilience over the past few years.

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What Can AI Do for You?

Security Industry Association

Jon Harris, MBA, CPP, PSP, vice president, Group337. The security industry has no shortage of buzz terms, and one that is consistently in the discussion is artificial intelligence, or AI. I’ve heard about AI since I was a kid – as early as The Terminator’s Skynet and HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey, the concept of AI has been presented to us as a science fiction concept that will inevitably turn on us and destroy humanity.

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Personal Resilience

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 80: Personal Resilience Vanessa’s guest is Marie Hale, cofounder and visionary at @revenue, the innovative Chicago sales and marketing agency. The topic is personal resilience. Vanessa defines personal resilience as the “ability to absorb an impact or disruption and be able to bounce back.” Marie has thought a lot about personal resilience over the past few years.

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Personal Resilience

Business Resilience Decoded

Episode 80: Personal Resilience Vanessa’s guest is Marie Hale, cofounder and visionary at @revenue, the innovative Chicago sales and marketing agency. The topic is personal resilience. Vanessa defines personal resilience as the “ability to absorb an impact or disruption and be able to bounce back.” Marie has thought a lot about personal resilience over the past few years.