Last week’s AHD Bulletin –
- Animal Health Digest Bulletin, April 25, 2024. Link.
Most read post(s) from the April 25th AHD Bulletin –
- 9 Gen Z work trends, not new but hit differently now. Link.
- Employee engagement in the U.S. hits 11-year low. Link.
- Cull cows, beef value now important for dairy profits. Link.
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The future of job interviews will look a little like this
Source: BOSS, April 18, 2024. Link. Workers of the future will have many routes to being hired, and HR teams will be better equipped to understand how personality traits and soft skills translate into job performance. Despite resistance, the benefits are staggering enough to predict almost total virtual interviews for many job roles in the future.
Why appreciating teachers is more important than you think
Source: Gallup, April 29, 2024. Link. According to Gallup research, only 25 percent of teachers strongly agree with the statement, “In the last seven days, I have received recognition or praise for doing good work.” Have a teacher or two who really touched your life? Take a few minutes to send them a note of thanks.
Why it’s so hard to answer the question What makes us happiest?
Source: The Atlantic, April 26, 2024. Link. If intrigued by the title, Derek Thompson will walk you through an amalgamation of opinions resulting in what he calls the happiness trinity. Summarizing, he says, “. . . the subtler truth seems to be that finances, family, and social fitness are three prongs in a happiness trinity. They rise together and fall together.”
Habit stacking to boost workplace, personal change
Source: INTHEBLACK, April 1, 2024. Link. Habit stacking is a behavioral change strategy that has been linked to sustainable habit forming, an important skill in today’s fast-paced workplaces and society. By ‘piggybacking’ a new habit onto an existing one, one can take advantage of the neural pathways and automaticity already associated with the existing habit. This makes it easier for your brain to adopt the new habit and increases the likelihood that you will repeat it,” says Gina Cleo, PhD.
21 signs that confirm you are an introvert
Source: Introvert, Dear. April 26, 2024. Link. Being an introvert means you lose energy from socializing and gain energy by spending time alone. That’s it. Introversion is not a flaw, a disorder, or a diagnosis. It’s a healthy personality trait that comes with many strengths.
