Work by Design

You deserve to know your freedom number Hey Reader, I mentioned last week that I'm launching an event series this summer with a fantastic cofounder. Our goal is to guide ya'll in looking at some of the tough stuff around careers, workplaces and also to help your prep for anything. Think you might get the 10m meeting with HR? Determined to keep finding the win-win where you are, but want to reset your relationship with work and title? We got you. The first event is called Find Your Freedom...

Bust the fears keeping you stuck Meet my new thang – The Glimmer Network Hey Reader, Starting up top with your Monday Hour 1 exercise. Keep reading below for your invitation to join me to bust some of the biggest fears about making work work better for you. My ask: Fwd this to a friend who would benefit from one of all of the workshops below. 💌 Monday Hour 1 Here's your weekly invitation to take time for yourself to approach your week with intention, a focus on impact and prioritize leading...

Time to declutter – reconsider standing meetings Time Needed: 15m Activity Outcome: Consciously craft your week Hey Reader, Monday here we go again. 😂 More below our Monday Hour 1 prompts on what I'm reading/playing. Time to groom recurring meetings, and reconsider team rituals and forums. Remember that one time Shopify cleared all the calendars of recurring meetings? Chaos. But also... every meeting you have on a recurring basis should be assessed. What WAS the purpose? Still needed? Are we...

You deserve to like Mondays Tuesdays Time Needed: 15m Activity Outcome: Align your week to impact Hey Reader, Two three things of note as I start up my week after Memorial Day weekend here in the states. I'm building something new with a CO-FOUNDER. It's a new and exciting thing for me as an entrepreneur and I think many of ya'll will want what we're building. That truly safe space to explore career what-ifs, evolve your relationship with work, bounce back from a bad experience. We're not...

Is AI helping or hindering the future of work? Time Needed: 15m Activity Outcome: Align your week to impact Hey Reader, Fiiiiiiiine, I'll send an email talking about AI. I'm somewhere on the AI adoption spectrum between "how much water are the tech bros forcing us all to use for stupid things we don't need and didn't ask for?!" and "imma automate the 💩 outta my life-life and work-life." The required transformation and adoption of this technology is the most accelerated we have experienced as...

No more Sunday Scaries Time Needed: 15m Activity Outcome: Align your week to impact Hey Reader, One of my hopes for these monday morning emails hitting your inbox is that it can be part of building a routine that reduces the "sunday scaries." That feeling on Sunday evening when your brain starts running back through your work todo list, juggling where you and your people need to be and when and what you need to prepare for. The practice of knowing you'll have the first hour of your work-week...

Chaos impacts you & your humans Time Needed: 15m Activity Outcome: Add a tool to your toolbox Hey Reader, dumpster fire 1 this is fine Leading through the Dumpster fire Yeeeaaaahhh... no intro feels appropriate. Let me just say, you and/or your teams simply will have cognitive emotional load and stress from the world around you/them. I'm going to share some prior email issues with my comments on leading through hard stuff, and a tweaked Monday Hour 1. TLDR: Be a Human. Acknowledge things are...

What are you holding on to that is no longer serving you? Time Needed: 15m Activity Outcome: Align your week to impact Hey Reader, This last week I ran my Leading in Alignment to your Values workshop with a new group of Managers. The discussion included dealing with misalignment in company or leader values, and also when to consider if we are grasping too tightly to something getting in your own way. When we try to hold our values so firmly, it becomes impossible to collaborate with everyone...

Ask better questions for better connections Time Needed: 15m Activity Outcome: Align your week to impact Hey Reader, Communication style has been top of mind for me this week, and i wanted to share one of the "aha" moments I had in my leadership – ask better questions – not only to get better answers but as a way to build trust and connection with your humans. I invite you to experiment this week ahead. Open-ended questions expand awareness Try swapping binary, pressure-loaded questions (that...

Leading through Tough Times Time Needed: 5-10m Read, plus Monday Hour 1 Hey Reader, I decided to take a couple weeks off at the end of last year, that has evolved into over a month now. For reasons, keep reading below AND I'm curious – did you miss these Monday emails? Why or why not? This introspection and feedback would be most valuable for me so hit that reply button. Leading through uncertainty is rarely easy. There will be chaos, diverse opinions, and moments of feeling utterly lost. But...