Saku Valkama

“Severe occupational burnout has increased.” This was the headline of a recent press release by Työterveyslaitos - Finnish Institute of Occupational Health According to their research: ➖ one in four employees has an increased risk of burnout. ➖ the likelihood of burnout has increased, especially among managers. The number has tripled compared to the pre-pandemic period. ➖ severe burnout is twice as likely among young people under the age 36 compared to 2019. ➖ cognitive disorders and cynicism at work have increased. The study, with over 1200 respondents, revealed the main reason behind this increased burnout risk; uncertainty about one’s own job (job insecurity) combined with a growing sense of hopelessness for the future😢   While this data is specific to Finland, I believe it reflects a similar trend across Europe. ❓WHAT CAN WE DO TO TURN THIS TREND AROUND❓ The statistics are worrying, but also awaken the fighter in me. There must be a way for us to reduce job insecurity and create more hope for the future! 👉 I’d love to hear from you: What strategies or approaches have you found helpful – as a leader, or just for yourself – in: 1️⃣ reducing job insecurity, AND/OR 2️⃣ increasing hope for the future? How can we, as workplaces, build a sense of stability and optimism for everyone? Please share your best tips – let’s tackle this challenge together! #Stress #Burnout #Future #Work #Hope

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Be kind to yourself! We can get further with compassion towards others and ourselves, instead of constantly demanding more. Ruthlessness gets us nowhere. My dear friend Maaret Kallio describes this eloquently and wisely: ”Peace of mind and mental health are closely intertwined and build on each other. Peace of mind does not mean perfection of the mind or an undistorted life - rather the opposite. Peace is being able to look at difficult and fragile aspects related to oneself and one's life somehow in a peaceful way. Without fighting, without repelling, without judging. Peace does not avoid suffering but turns towards and hears. Takes the weaker under its protection and takes responsibility for it. Good mental health does not mean the absence of the difficult, but peace within the diversity of the mind. There is halting, wear and tear in each of us, but understanding it creates the peace and security that the mind longs for. Even today, wars are going on in many parts of the world. Innocent children suffer in shocking ways and people flee their homes, lose loved ones to the madness of war. Each one of us thirsts for peace and an end to the fighting. Reconciliation. Amid a world that is waging wars, we cannot also fight within our own minds. You must persistently be beside the weaker one, even when that one is found inside your own mind. Peace always begins as close as possible: with oneself.” #mielenterveys #mielenrauha #toivo #mentalhealth #peaceofmind #hope

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Ten years after… About 10 years ago, I received an invitation to speak at an event organized by Enfo. The title of my presentation was "Finance today and tomorrow... Some thoughts about the changing and developing role of finance and IT" Over the years, the original language versions of the presentation (Finnish and English) have already received almost 8,000 views in the Slideshare system. Presentations are now available as animated videos. Now is a good time to review what has happened in about ten years and how the world around us has evolved... or has it? https://lnkd.in/dnSKUW5N #finance #accounting #training #RPA #robotics #financialmanagement

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🎒 Keeping abreast of the latest HR trends and regularly developing your skills is crucial for HR consultants. It's necessary for business, but it's also a hell of a lot of fun! 😁 The core value of HR Plus Finland is lifelong learning and the systematic development of your skills. One of the concrete activities is the monthly Learning Club, where each team member prepares a discussion for the team, usually based on a book, but sometimes also on the latest research or training they have participated in. 🤓 Learning takes place on many levels: reading a book naturally brings a lot of new insights and ideas, and summarising the content and your own observations helps to structure what you have learned. But the most valuable part is the discussion: the team has almost 200 years of HR experience, so the discussion is rich and varied. Often even an average book turns out to be a good basis for insights. 📚 Tomorrow the autumn season of Learning Clubs starts and it's my turn to facilitate the discussion - I look forward to it. ✨ #hrplus #hrpluslearningclub

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Applied behavior science is moving fast. During this year's Intensive Seminar @Budapest University of Technology and Economics Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences we will dig deeper into #complexbehaviorchange. Come to the lecture to learn about what is new and try your hand at behavior design in the workshop.

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📺 TV is still going strong, and new channels are emerging! We are happy to help TV channels focus on their content and commercial strategies by providing cutting-edge tech and streamlined processes. Here’s to the future of broadcasting! 🚀 #Broadcasting #Television #MediaTech #Innovation #mediamanagement

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Outsourcing: A Game Changer for Business Growth In today's fast-paced business world, outsourcing has become more crucial than ever. At Path2Support, we believe that leveraging external expertise is not just a smart strategy, but a necessity for sustainable growth. Outsourcing allows companies to focus on their core competencies while experts handle the rest. It brings cost savings, access to specialized skills, and improved efficiency. Whether it's customer support, technical assistance, or back-office operations, outsourcing can drive your business forward. Let's embrace the power of outsourcing to unlock new levels of success and innovation. #Outsourcing #BusinessGrowth #Efficiency #Path2Support

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Unlock the secrets of successful outsourcing. This must-read for CEOs, CFOs, and other CXOs delves into making strategic choices, leveraging modern technology, and forming powerful partnerships. Discover key insights on data-driven decision-making, enhancing core operations, and driving competitive advantage. The article is in Finnish.

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Have you tried to spend a day without interacting with a GenAI topic, with success? Most likely not, it is the talk of the town as we all know. If you do have those ambitions here is my contribution to make it impossible.   We have just launched our newest GenAI initiative, our new chatbot enhanced with ChatGPT capabilities. Launching something that is based on trending technology, it’s nothing new in itself, I would also guess that's kind of what you would expect. However, we’ve always been curios and obsessed about how technology can improve customer and employee experience.   So, in our trademark manner we have been thinking and have come up with a clever solution that reduces the time to "train" and deploy the bot. At the same time, we’ve introduced easy to use features that secures the quality in the interactions and of course supportive functions to improve the quality even further. Not to forget that we have optimized the cost side of the exercise, bringing down the cost with a 5:1 ratio. All of this was picked up by Telekomidag, check out the article below:

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Just finished the course “Non-Functional Requirements in the Cloud Part 2: Planning and Implementation” by Gwendolen Warnick! Check it out: https://lnkd.in/dqH8QeeJ #nonfunctionalrequirements #cloudcomputing.

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This is @amin-maleknejad-3b758b10 Linkedin Personality analysis by AI Agent, built on roast.monica.im #monicaroast

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Thanks a lot Harald Røine for engaging conversation, letting share a vision of growing business in HR-Tech and Employee benefit sector with MELP and glimpse into a life of Startup Co-founder:) I truly believe it is important to share our experiences and know-how - by this we help to grow the ecosystem, encourage and give direction to new entrepreneurs, help to learn on other people mistakes instead of making our own 🤞. We all have personal Breakthrough Moments and for me it is really interesting to understand how other business owners made decisions and how they built their growth story, especially in challenging environments. #HR #Employeebenefits #Startup #Founder #Podcast

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Exciting ... we can't wait to integrate NXAI services into our SaaS dcupl and utilise the benefits of xLSTM for our customers 👏 #NXAI #AI #xLSTM #LLM #SaaS #Innovation #CustomerSuccess #DataSience #DigitalTransformation #dcupl

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Today, I will go back to my University days when I studied Control Theory. And apply it to my current system of focus: The Fashion Store. The Store is a system like any other: You act on it (change assortment, VM, inventory, prices), you measure feedback (results) and act again. The objective is to optimize sales and margins. A fundamental lesson from control theory is that when there is a long delay from Action to Measurement, the performance of the system is severely compromised. And in a typical Fashion store the delay is huge. It may take 6+ weeks to gather sales data about specific styles because sales are so sparse. And sales is the only data available... This is the tectonic change Nexite brings to Fashion Retail. New real-time measurements on your customer behavior. So that you drastically reduce the delay from Act to Feedback and then Act Again. And when combined with the new AI capabilities becoming widespread revolutionize how retail is controlled and optimized. Imagine if you could act in a week instead of waiting for 6. And what that will do to full price sales and sell-through.

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Today marks our first coaching session with Mr. Erik Jonsson at Antler #VN6, focusing on our Problem Statement and Target Customer for Emolyzer. Thanks to Erik's targeted questions, we are able to pinpoint the most critical problem to solve and the optimal target customer. For example, we claim that "designing a proper questionnaire and engaging customers to complete it are crucial". But what exactly defines "proper"? What are the benefits of engaging customers? Can this engagement increase sales, conversion rates, or retention rates, and by what percentage? Refinement is essential; we need to conduct real-world experiments and continuously revise our hypotheses about the product, customer, and market to sharpen our startup's focus. I'm eager to integrate these valuable insights into our strategy and am looking forward to our next coaching session. - with Co-Founder Ngoc Anh Hoang #Antler #startup #emolyzer #coaching

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How fast are you able to respond to new leads? ⏱ Quite interesting insights from RevenueHero: They contacted 1 000 B2B sales teams and found that 60% took more than 24 hours to respond to new leads, and 40% didn’t follow up at all. In today’s fast-paced business environment, that’s a massive missed opportunity! Studies show that responding to leads within the first 5 minutes dramatically increases the chances of qualifying them. Speed is absolutely crucial to staying competitive in the B2B space! https://lnkd.in/dAE-2a-T #b2b #b2bsales

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