The vast majority of people will agree that feedback is the most important tool we have to improve ourselves and others. How else are you supposed to know if you’re doing a good job if nobody tells you? How are…
Keeping Culture Alive During Covidland
It’s been almost a year now since we closed our office and sent everyone home. The first few months were filled with uncertainty, change, and a fair dose of anxiety, but we got through it. It made us a stronger…
A Simple Communication Framework
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. George Bernard Shaw Why a Framework? The single most important thing that we do at work is communicating with other people. It’s generally how we are…
Writing an Introduction Email
It’s a new year, and hopefully a better one than 2020! COVID-life has gotten me a little out of the networking habit, so lately I have been spending more of my professional time talking to partners, colleagues, friends, and clients….
Setting a Meeting With Your Boss’s Boss
Most people don’t have a problem talking to their boss or direct supervisor. Hopefully, you have casual access to this person every day and formal interactions through one-on-ones and other reviews. Sometimes though, you want to (or need to) go…
Your first week on a job
There are things you sit down to write because the world needs to know. Or ideas which are bursting out of you. For me, it’s mainly things that I thought everyone knew… and then I turned out to be wrong,…