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How Can Organizations Support Employee Mental Health?
Strong leadership plays a critical role in supporting employee mental health. Leaders who actively coach, mentor, and engage with their teams help create a sense of stability, trust, and psychological safety. A lack of involvement or support can contribute to increased stress and uncertainty. For this reason, it is essential that organizations equip both leaders and employees with…
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GadellNet’s B Corp Journey
Since our founding in 2003, GadellNet has been grounded in community-focused values, and we’ve always gone the extra mile to take care of the people and places around us. We made the decision to become a B Corp in 2020, compelled by the alignment of the mission and our three core values – Make an…
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Business Intelligence Reporting: Leveraging Data for Competitive Advantage
Small and medium-sized businesses face a common challenge: they have data, but they’re not using it to drive decisions. Implementing business intelligence reporting is no longer optional—it’s a requirement for staying competitive. This guide covers the core benefits of BI reporting and consulting, from informed decision-making to operational efficiency and risk management. We aim to…
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Co-Managed IT Services: A Strategic Partnership Guide
Organizations face real pressures: cybersecurity threats, resource constraints, competing demands for IT support. Many businesses and nonprofits struggle to keep systems running smoothly while building the expertise needed to stay competitive. Co-managed IT services offer a strategic answer. Instead of choosing between managing everything in-house or outsourcing completely, you partner with an external provider to…
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Why Outsourced IT Support Is Essential: A Comprehensive Guide
Outsourced IT support means working with a third-party company to cover your technology needs, which of course includes standard break-fix support and help desk access to ensure that your organization runs smoothly and has the resources it needs when technology doesn’t cooperate. Depending on your managed IT provider, those services should also include strategic IT…
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Building Ethical AI Practices
Writing about ethical AI practices is one thing, but demonstrating their application in real-world scenarios for organizations that use or deploy generative AI is an entirely different thing! As I’ve evaluated these practices against our mission and values, researched to the ends of the internet, spoken with experts, and read cautionary tales of modern thought…
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CEO Reflections: CrowdStrike Global Tech Outage
Letter to our Clients on July 22, 2024 I wanted to follow up on CrowdStrike’s unprecedented global tech outage last week. Critical disruptions to airlines, banks, hospitals, and 911 services are still lingering today, after CrowdStrike released an automatic update to their Windows agent, causing Windows to crash. I am relieved that our clients’ IT…
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Creating a Secure Password Is Your First Line of Defense
We’re currently halfway through 2024…have you changed your password yet? If not, we have some password tips and advice to get you started. With the average cost of a data breach being $4.45M in 2023 – can you afford not to? In 2023, 19% of the data breaches that companies suffered were due to compromised…
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How I Saved An Hour a Day Using Microsoft Copilot
I have always been drawn to technology that enables people to do their job faster, better, stronger, and happier. When I heard last year that Microsoft was releasing Copilot for M365, I eagerly awaited its release so I could use it to my own advantage. I even set a personal WIG (Wildly Important Goal): Save at least 60…
