What to Do When Employees Don’t Respond to Feedback
Dear Scott, I have an employee who just won’t engage with feedback. When I do share feedback, he totally falls apart and wants to quit. He struggles with any type of criticism from me or anyone. Other managers have shared with me the same concern.
What is Zoom Fatigue and How To Avoid It in Students? — Observatory of Educational Innovation
Ten minutes of walking, a couple of yoga exercises, or a short time playing with their pets can significantly reduce stress levels and improve children's concentration. Creating a space suitable for learning that also allows children to relax is crucial for them to be comfortable in their classes. This space should facilitate using the computer without involving the child's extra effort, seating them at eye level with the screen at a reasonable distance for viewing.
The indestructible light beam
12. April 2021 Researchers at Utrecht University and at TU Wien (Vienna) create special light waves that can penetrate even opaque materials as if the material was not even there. Why is sugar not transparent? Because light that penetrates a piece of sugar is scattered, altered and deflected in a highly complicated way. However, as a research team from TU Wien (Vienna) and Utrecht University (Netherlands) has now been able to show, there is a class of very special light waves for which this does not apply: for any specific disordered medium – such as the sugar cube you may just have put in your coffee – tailor-made light beams can be constructed that are practically not changed by this medium, but only attenuated.
6 Tips to Beat Zoom Fatigue
Virtual learning and remote work have skyrocketed due to the ongoing pandemic. Suddenly everyone is scheduling remote meetings, hopping on quick calls, and completing education requirements online. At the beginning of the pandemic, Zoom calls jumped astronomically, increasing from 10 million to 300 million each day. Microsoft Teams, a comparable platform, saw similar surges, jumping from 31 to 75 million daily calls. The new normal has led to a new turn of phrase: Zoom fatigue.
Micro-molded ‘ice cube tray’ scaffold is next step in returning sight to injured retinas
Tens of millions of people worldwide are affected by diseases like macular degeneration or have had accidents that permanently damage the light-sensitive photoreceptors within their retinas that enable vision. The human body is not capable of regenerating those photoreceptors, but new advances by medical researchers and engineers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison may provide hope for those suffering from vision loss. They described their work today in the journal Science Advances. Researchers at UW–Madison have made new photoreceptors from human pluripotent stem cells.
What remote work revealed about the role of onboarding
When I joined a consulting firm straight out of business school, we had a week-long orientation for new employees. It was a great onboarding experience – a big production. But only three things stand out in my memory from that distant past: one of the firm’s co-founders told the story of the firm’s first and oldest customer, we received an in-depth book on problem-solving and I sat next to a gregarious fellow named Will, who has since become a partner at the firm.
Zoom Fatigue: What We Have Learned
Early in the remote learning efforts of the spring semester last year, we found that many faculty members unaccustomed to teaching online made few adaptations to the new delivery mode other than substituting the Zoom room for the lecture hall. Of course, those who have supported and researched online learning over the past 25 years know that online pedagogies and best practices to achieve active learning are quite different online than lecturing face-to-face. Much has been learned about Zoom and similar conferencing technologies. Zoom has updated the product monthly and even bimonthly as educators at all levels used the technology.
Gene therapy research repairs nerve transport systems damaged by glaucoma and dementia
Results of the pre-clinical study, led by Professor Keith Martin from the Centre for Eye Research Australia and University of Melbourne and Dr Tasneem Khatib from the University of Cambridge, are published today in Science Advances. Researchers say the findings in experiments on mice show promise for developing new gene therapies to treat both glaucoma and dementia. But critically, the findings also demonstrate how gene therapies could treat complex neurodegenerative diseases that are caused multiple factors rather than a single genetic fault. “Currently many gene therapies are targeted at rare diseases caused by a single genetic fault, where a missing or damage gene can be replaced to treat the condition,’’ says Professor Martin.
The Slippery Slope from Personal Task Assignment to Lack of Team Ownership and Commitment
Sprint planning is an important event that has a significant impact on the team’s effectiveness and productivity during the sprint. The most critical aspects of successful sprint planning are the level of the team’s commitment to the goal of the sprint and handling the sprint backlog. To encourage the team’s commitment to the sprint, the Scrum Master (SM) should include all the members of the team in planning the sprint and, together with them, craft a challenging sprint goal and estimate the tasks involved.
Returning to the classroom is a chance to rethink its purpose
The pandemic has forced students around the world into distance learning. This has exposed the shortcomings of both online and classroom-based education. As we get back to normal, we have a chance to combine the best of both worlds into a more effective pedagogical model.
4 Challenges of Managing Hybrid Teams & How to Solve Them
Hybrid teams and workplaces present new opportunities for the modern workplace, but they present new challenges as well. Managing teams who work half-onsite and half-remotely, after all, requires new communication protocols, new workflows, new digital tools, and new management practices, among other things. Below, we’ll learn how managers and team leaders can address some of these challenges. Hybrid teams are composed of both remote workers and onsite workers. Before 2020, hybrid teams and office models may not have been very common, but now they have become very widespread – if not the norm. To complicate matters, many organizations now employ both full-time staff as well as part-time workers, contractors, consultants, and other third parties.
