Okay Everybody ... Back to the Office!

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11/30/21 • 30 min

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My Job Here Is Done - Career Success Podcast

This is the one about the possibility of returning to the office, or your place of work, after many months of working remotely, from home, or anywhere. Are you ready to go back? Or are you in what appears to be the majority of people who figured out how to work productively at home, and now see no reason to want to go back?

Employers and employees are stressing over this, and there are good reasons why this is not a simple change for anyone.

In this episode, we talk about the pros and cons of remote work for both the employee and the business. We look at how most businesses survived through Covid because of the hard work, dedication, and resourcefulness of hundreds of millions of employees who transitioned from in-person to remote work all over the world. We analyze the very good reasons why it will be extremely difficult to just snap back to the way it was before Covid.

We also explore the very bad reasons some businesses are concocting in an effort to not make a change to remote work - even though it's crystal clear that remote work has and will ... well ... work just fine!

We finish up with a chat about what we and some are calling The Great Resignation of 2022, and why we believe this is a likely event that will be disrupting many businesses that do not adapt quickly or at all.

This episode is so important that we allowed ourselves to break our "about 20 minutes long" rule for the podcast, so please enjoy a slightly extended 30-minute episode.

Visit the official My Job Here Is Done website to learn more, to contact us, and to sign-up for very infrequent non-spammy tidbits by email if you'd like.

Best wishes!
Dave and Kelli

Employers and employees are stressing over this, and there are good reasons why this is not a simple change for anyone.

This episode is so important that we allowed ourselves to break our "about 20 minutes long" rule for the podcast, so please enjoy a slightly extended 30-minute episode.

Visit the official My Job Here Is Done website to learn more, to contact us, and to sign-up for very infrequent non-spammy tidbits by email if you'd like.

Best wishes!
Dave and Kelli

Previous Episode

It's a Marketing Miracle and You Can Eat it Too!

This is the one about a small red berry that you’ve likely never heard of before, the miracle berry.

In this episode, we compare ways to create curiosity in your business to Chef Homaro Cantu who created curiosity in his restaurants, delighted his customers, and earned a Michelin Star by utilizing molecular gastronomy and the miracle berry to change the composition and taste of the foods he served. His food wasn’t always what it seemed (think edible menus!). You too can create curiosity for your product or service by marketing your business in a unique way that elicits an emotional response from your customers.

Learn about the miraculous miracle berry and how to host your own flavor tripping party just for fun, or more importantly, to demonstrate to your marketing team how to think differently and create curiosity for your business.

Here are some useful links to our research and how to find the Miracle Berry online.

All about the late Chef Homaro Cantù
Buy Miracle Berries here
How to flavor trip!
A little about Revlon
The Miracle Berry and Health

Visit the official My Job Here Is Done website to learn more, to contact us, and to sign-up for very infrequent non-spammy tidbits by email if you'd like.

Best wishes!
Dave and Kelli

Next Episode

Yikes! It's Time for Your Personality Test

On My Job Here Is Done podcast, this is the one about the (dreaded?) personality test. You've all heard about these, and a lot of you have taken one ... or you will soon!

Personality tests or assessments are designed to try to get into your head and see what's really in there. They claim to be able to profile you into several different categories or traits to be compared to other people. The original purpose of these tests was to help a person understand themselves better, but lately, they are also being used to determine if you're a good "fit" for a job.

Did the last part of that sentence scare you? It should have! There is a lot of troubling stuff here, and we discuss that and more in this episode.

Now don't get us wrong, we are not anti-personality-assessment people - in fact, you'll learn by listening to the show that we took a very popular version of one of these tests, the Meyers Briggs Type Indicator, and we found it was spot on for both of us! When these tests are used in the right setting and for the proper purpose, they can be enormously helpful both in a business setting and for personal use.

It's using them in the wrong setting, that's got our panties in a bunch. We think, in general, that these tests have no place in pre-employment screening - yet - and we give you the reasons why we feel that way in this My Job Here Is Done podcast episode. We also touch on the new types of video tests that watch your facial expressions and attempt to figure you out by the way you react to questions as opposed to just how you'd answer them.

We hope you enjoy the episode - feel free to leave us comments on the website.

Here is where we obtained some of our research into the field of Personality testing for the show:

A good source of general research
This is from NBC News
And this from the New Yorker
Wikipedia on Myers Briggs
Harvard Business Review has this take on the subject
HR Daily Advisor has this to say
The Univerity Of Pennsylvania UPENN spent some quality time on this

You can Google "free personality tests online" to get some idea of what you can do for no cost.

Visit the official My Job Here Is Done website to learn more, contact us, and sign-up for very infrequent non-spammy tidbits by email if you'd like.

Best wishes!
Dave and Kelli