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Reimer v. Apollo Partners
March 14, 2023 Filing 2 NOTICE OF REMOVAL from 3rd District Court Salt Lake County, case number 230901185, (Filing fee $ 402, receipt number AUTDC-4619438) filed by Apollo Partners. (Attachments: #1 Exhibit 1 - Civil Cover Sheet, #2 Exhibit 2 - State Court Complaint) Assigned to Magistrate Judge Dustin B. Pead (Johnson, Bradley) March 14, 2023 Filing 1 Case has been indexed and assigned to Magistrate Judge Dustin B. Pead.
2022 For(bes) The Culture Culturally Accountable Summit
March 2, 2022, 1 - 2:30 p.m. ET | 10 - 11:30 a.m. PT - Virtual Event Speakers Agenda Sponsor Register Register for Free Given the racial disparities that exist in home investing, funding, financing, and etc, Black and Brown entrepreneurs often enter the business arena with a hustle mentality. What happens when we pivot–re-directing some of our energy and focus away from the constant hustle and become more strategic about deal flow and wealth building?
How to tackle poor management
Reading time: 2 minutes The Government has committed £42.2m to improving UK productivity through research, including £30m for a new 'productivity institute', which it says will tackle barriers to productivity - including poor management practices. This can only be a massive criticism of executive management in many companies and the failure to invest in training departments capable of facilitating management skill learning.
An advance of learning
Reading time: 2 minutes 30 seconds What we know from historical evolution is that early humans learned through the satisfaction of hunger, what they could eat, where to find it, and the avoidance of danger. Then they constructed tools and weapons to satisfy their needs. Then they developed farming. As you can see, our fundamental learning system was based on action with a subsidy of working memory. We developed writing.
Introduction to nudging
Reading time: 2 minutes We know “managers have to know” but to get some them into action can sometimes be a real pain. Let’s use an example. To integrate off-the-job learning into action on the job requires 70:20:10. Recently a divisional HR director wrote a note pointing out that managers were far too busy to get involved in this training stuff.
Skills shortages
Reading time: 2m 30s. The Open University Business Barometer indicates a failure of companies to invest in training. The data suggests that fewer than one in four (23%) employers offered training to existing employees to add to the skills available within their organisation. More than half (53%) of organisations have increased their training budget in the past 12 months - by an average of 10%.
Feeling Stuck? 10 Steps To Help When You Hit A Plateau
Sometimes, we feel stuck, like we're not growing or making progress. We feel as though we are in a holding pattern, waiting for the next thing to kick start our lives. This occurs in the context of a society that seems to value constant quantitative growth. Everyone seems to want to increase their incomes, add more clients, boost their social media numbers, maximize all their “Likes.” When we hit a flat spot, we might feel disturbed or anxious. We don’t know what to do.
Industrial change and sexual discrimination
Reading time: 2m 30s. At one stage in my career I was responsible for executive recruitment. An exec wanting a PA came into my office. It was 'not my job', but being me, I just asked the job description, essential skills, etc. The response I got was something along the lines of, “She’ll probably be a graduate as I need someone intelligent.
Listening leads to personal development
Reading time: 2m 30s. The latest buzz is that L&D has a new lease of life in companies that are looking to the future. I've read this across several articles from universities in the USA to apprentice training in the UK. So, what are some of the insights and is your organisation one of them or are you a tail-end Charly? What sort of things are those that are moving forward saying? Have you listened to them?
Learning event design starts with a blank page
The Greek philosopher Heraclitus, said, “You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.” With rapidly advancing technology, changing processes and skills, culture transition, companies are in a nearly constant state of organisational transformation – whether it’s a revolution, modernisation, restructuring of departments or geographic business shifts. The changes are arriving faster at shorter intervals.
The changing world of work
We know the Fourth Industrial Revolution is rolling forward. We also know that many industries in the UK are not advancing into this changing situation fast enough. Many believe it is just a technology advance, others think it is a threat to jobs, and one of the main issues is that we have no idea how it will influence different industries. Some traditional industrial leaders don’t like revolutions, so they avoid them. Let me float some simple ideas; you can then consider them for your industry.
Learning and development for retirement
No, I am not writing about a short blitz of information for those about to draw their pensions but a real understanding for the employees who are in the care of the employing organisation. So that perhaps starts, when new employees join. I can feel some of you shaking your heads - what a daft idea. Please note the words 'in the care of the employing organisation'. So what is the future for many employees approaching pension-age?
Challenging times
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4RI) is nigh. There is much about technology breakthroughs in a number of fields, including robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, quantum computing, biotechnology, Internet of Things, 3D printing and autonomous vehicles. It will disrupt almost every industry in every country. And the breadth and depth of these changes will transform entire systems of production, sales, management and governance.
Prepare our children for employment
I recognise that some politicians are awake in parliament. Esther McVey, the Pensions Secretary, said teenage employment is vital if Britain is to provide more resilient home-grown workers after Brexit. This was the result of reports from immigration advisors that British workers were perceived to be less hard working and had much higher absenteeism than European immigrants. Some employers had concerns that young British workers are not ambitious or resilient enough.
AI: Learning facilitation in action
In this diverse, rapidly changing environment will L&D professionals be able to facilitate all learning as we have in the past? I am suggesting the answer to that question is, no. I believe that AI will become a micro learning facilitator. Will we have jobs? I believe the answer is yes but we will only deal with the AI role in this blog. Micro-learning will be the norm delivered in small chunks, decided by the learners, focused on and driven by the learners and enabled by AI. Why?
The adult learner
A crucial role of the manager is ensuring the development of his or her staff. It is the employees of the department that produce the outputs. Their effectiveness and efficiency crucially depend on the manger ensuring they have the skills and knowledge to produce the required outputs. It also depends on the employees working as teams and those teams acting in concert.
Modernise, modernise
The importance of learning has increased and will increase more as robotisation and automation bite and the non-routine, irregular, novel, changing, varying, erratic work-related technical, organisational, administrative, logistical and legislative faults occur let alone straightforward breakdowns and robotic errors. Yes, they will happen. Nothing has yet been designed and built that has been perfect. Even space vehicles have gone wrong. On Jan.
Investment in learning
Today, careers span 50 years (or more) and a person may go through three or four functions within three or four companies or may only work in one company in one function that is rapidly changing requiring continual updating of skills, knowledge, attitude, organisation capability and level of seniority. Careers evolve, most people in most modern industries are facing continual change as the Fourth Industrial Revolution impacts industry and society.
From training to facilitation
A question is how can we facilitate and improve facilitation if we don’t know how people learn? Is what we did as trainers valid? Hopefully, neuroscientists and psychologists will clarify this. There are disputed theories about learning from psychology, sociology, education and policy studies, valued in different ways from various perspectives such as political ideologies, social norms and values, history and personal preferences.
Change needs leadership
Perhaps I'm naïve but I believe leadership starts from the top. Ideally, they, the people at the top, listen to the layers below them. Ideally, they walk the floor, observe what is happening and listen. They recognise a shift in values is needed, the culture is not optimal and being great leaders they act. The CEO passes down an edict. The board allocates funds to train staff. Yes, they really mean it. You L&D professionals plan and prepare. A common reality. The learning events hit the objectives.
Opinion: Are you ready for the new world of AI?
Now is the time for HR and L&D professionals to start preparing for the advent of artificial intelligence, says Barry Johnson China has set its sights on being the world’s artificial intelligence (AI) leader by 2030 in its Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan. It is already far advanced into the fourth industrial revolution and AI. The target for some UK organisations to be proficient in AI is 2020 – just three years from now. Some, of course, are already operating and using AI.
Opinion: The seven skills L&D needs to thrive in the fourth industrial revolution
Barry Johnson assesses the attributes learning professionals need to help their organisations succeed in a time of technological disruption In 2013, Frey and Osborne published The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerisation? Others have done similar fourth industrial revolution (4IR) analyses. The conclusion is that L&D is a crucial function in organisations that are investing in advancing technologies.
Opinion: Equipping learners for the future requires more external awareness
L&D practitioners need a deeper understanding of how PESTLE factors are shaping their learners’ priorities, writes Barry Johnson We know that the current rate of industrial change is rapid and will accelerate. Accompanying the basic changes in technology, robotics and artificial intelligence are the digital changes that are affecting every aspect of every organisation, as well as fundamental changes to global society. L&D professionals used to have two key skills.
Opinion: How employees will thrive in the fourth industrial revolution
As technology moves on apace, staff will only succeed with the support of L&D professionals, writes Barry Johnson We have heard some short-term thinkers wax negatively about the fourth industrial revolution causing employee displacement by robots and artificial intelligence. They have little understanding of humans and technology reinforcing each other’s productivity.
Opinion: The AI revolution will change what it means to work in L&D
While technology won’t replace humans entirely, we will need to rethink our purpose as learning professionals, writes Barry Johnson We know that L&D is changing as more is known and understood about the brain. We know with the advance of the fourth industrial revolution that learning will be crucial to coping with the progress. Some of us wish to resist the learning changes. Some of us fear the changes. Some of us are excited by the changes. Whatever our view, learning change is coming.
HR news, jobs & blogs
Employers urged not to neglect ‘crucial segments of the workforce’ Older people who are currently looking for a new job are significantly more likely to be unemployed than younger applicants, new research has found. The analysis of 17,000 job candidates by Jobsite revealed that almost half (47 per cent) of those aged between 55 and 64 were looking for a job because they were unemployed, compared with a third (34 per cent) of younger candidates.
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After years of legal wrangling, mass equal pay claims in the public sector are finally being settled and many have proved costly to the employer. Much of the litigation so far has arisen from bonus structures, which benefited jobs predominately carried out by men rather than women.
HR news, jobs & blogs
Barry Johnson assesses the role that L&D is likely to play as AI’s importance in workplaces grows As conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) in learning and development grow in volume and scope, it’s worth clarifying some of the words used by the experts. AI is an ecosystem: a biological community interacting with a complex network or interconnected system – ie you, me and a computer.
HR news, jobs & blogs
Younger people and smaller businesses could suffer under current system, experts warn The skills minister yesterday revealed she was “quite flabbergasted” to discover many businesses were unaware of the apprenticeship levy, despite having already paid large amounts under the measure. Speaking an at apprenticeships forum at the Conservative Party Conference, FE Week reported that Anne Milton recalled meeting several senior businesspeople who “didn’t know anything about [the levy]”.
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Do a great job for your learners and they will do a great PR job for you, writes Barry Johnson The people who come to your learning sessions will leave with more than a brain full of fresh information. They will have been triggered to think, building upon their previous knowledge and understanding that will have been consolidated by the group sharing a Socratic approach. They will know and have confidence in what they now know, and in what they can do and want to do with the people they work with.
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A care support worker fired over a misunderstanding with a pottery class booking was unfairly dismissed, a tribunal has ruled. Reading Employment Tribunal heard that Mrs S Gough had worked for East Midlands Crossroads – Caring for Carers, which trades as Carers Trust East Midlands, and its predecessor since May 2008 as a care support worker. As part of her role, she helped run activities for disabled clients.
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Hilton’s Ben Bengougam on why the hotel mega-chain is working with Arianna Huffington’s company to improve employee wellbeing Hospitality behemoth Hilton Hotels and Resorts has become one of the first companies to partner with Thrive Global – Arianna Huffington’s new wellbeing venture – to improve the mental and physical health of its 160,000 employees.
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Enrique Garcia rounds up the latest developments and offers tips on how employers can avoid claims In the UK, section 7 of the Equality Act 2010 protects anyone who is transgender or planning to undergo gender reassignment. The World Health Organization recognises gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder as a psychiatric disorder.
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A recent report by the women and equalities committee revealed that 54,000 women lost their jobs in 2015 as a result of pregnancy discrimination, and that pregnant women and mothers are subject to more discrimination today than they were 10 years ago. The committee proposed various recommendations and new legislation to protect pregnant employees and mothers from being treated less favourably than their childfree or male comparators.
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Ex-offenders being ‘locked out of the labour market’ under current system Ex-offenders could have their criminal records sealed so they cannot be scrutinised by potential employers, under proposals published in a government-commissioned review today.
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As rapid technological advances change how we work, employees will lean on L&D professionals for support, writes Barry Johnson You probably learned about the industrial revolution at school. It was the transition to new manufacturing processes from about 1760 to about 1840, entailing the move from hand production to machines; the growth of manufacturing and iron production processes; the use of steam power; and the rise of the factory system.
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Talent management and retention ‘is HR’s biggest challenge’ in the Middle East New survey data from Hays has revealed that HR directors in the Middle East believe managing and retaining talent will be the profession’s biggest challenge over the next two years. Sixty per cent of those polled for the DNA of an HR Leader report – published in association with CIPD Middle East – said it would be their most significant area of focus during that time.
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Employee voice now a crucial part of modern recruitment, say experts Tech firms dominate the 2017 list of most recommended UK employers, with Facebook grabbing the top spot, in a Glassdoor survey released today. Analysis of data from former and current staff members, who voluntarily reviewed and rated the companies they work for, revealed that 90 per cent of Facebook employees would recommend the company to a friend.
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Picking the right pieces of furniture can do wonders for employees’ physical and mental health, writes Jon Odey A report from the University of Edinburgh has revealed that middle-aged office workers are less active than pensioners, because of the amount of time they spend sitting down while at the office.
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The failure of such programmes doesn’t mean they don’t work, they are just being done badly, writes Barry Johnson Let me nail my colours to the mast from the outset. The development of high-potential employees can work – but only if the executives and senior managers are committed to it, and it is recognised as a total system across the whole organisation. I worked for a dynamic organisation that had such a system.
HR news, jobs & blogs
Firing a senior executive or director can be complex and sensitive. Legal expert Sarah Calderwood offers her tips for making the process as smooth as possible Employers need to ascertain whether the senior executive has any shares in the business, whether the employer can obtain transfer of those shares, and the value of those shares on termination of employment.
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Managers urged to create an open and honest culture to aid difficult conversations Almost one in four employees (22 per cent) are too afraid to approach their boss with difficult questions, with asking for a pay rise topping the list, survey findings have revealed. A poll of 1,000 employees by jobs board CV-Library also found millennials dreaded tricky conversations with their manager more than most, with nearly a third (31 per cent) saying they were too afraid to ask certain questions.
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Stonewall co-founder and D&I consultant Simon Fanshawe on how to bridge the gap between good intentions and real change Simon Fanshawe’s route to the HR sphere is more unusual than most, taking in stand-up comedy, journalism and broadcasting. Now, through his consultancy, Diversity by Design, he’s keen to tell HR practitioners: “Don’t put together a business case for diversity – that’s like putting together a business case for love.
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Board execs who don’t see the link between developing people and their businesses’ profits should look for new jobs, writes Barry Johnson We read much about the chaos of change, uncertainties in the markets, the advancing technologies, financial crises and international competition and… we could just go on. But the two base solutions are sitting there in companies. One, that it’s people who make the profits.
Generation Z ‘more motivated by teamwork than the average worker’
HR urged to ‘use technology to its fullest’ to engage younger employees Members of so-called generation Z are more motivated by teamwork, but less driven by flexible working, than the average UK employee, research has revealed.
How to prevent indirect discrimination
Solicitor Joseph Lappin explains how to mitigate the risk of a claim being made, and what to do if faced with one The topic of indirect discrimination has been the focus of discussion in employment law and HR circles since the recent decisions by the Supreme Court in the cases of Naeem and Essop. These decisions show that indirect discrimination is a live issue, and a real risk for unwary employers.
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Deducting pay to cover uniforms, paying the wrong wage to apprentices and failing to account for overtime were among the most common excuses given by employers newly identified as underpaying staff. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) discovered that 233 companies had failed to pay more than 13,000 staff the national minimum wage (NMW) or national living wage (NLW), amounting to a total shortfall just shy of £2m.
Opinion: Great leaders need to show the right balance of confidence and vulnerability
Dr Wanda Wallace discusses our inherently contradictory expectations of managers, and how they can meet them Great managers have to balance many competing behaviours, characteristics and demands. Chief among these is the need for a healthy balance between appearing vulnerable and being confident – especially with those who report to them. Often we believe saying we do not know something is a sign of weakness – even if we empirically know it is not.
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Since Netflix first released its company culture slidedeck in 2009, it’s been synonymous with the notion that employees should be treated as ‘whole adults’: competent people who excel when given freedom and responsibility. In celebration of the recently released update to their manifesto, take a leaf – or five – out of their rulebook. Silicon Valley is known for lavish perks, from nap pods to improv classes.
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