Life is Work

Agendas are more than a few vague bullet points featuring updates! This week we chat about agendas, their function, how they're often poorly executed, and how to better use them for your meetings.

This week we chat about the concept of self work, how we are taught to doubt ourselves, and how to better cultivate a care for ourselves in all areas of our lives, because we are worthy!

Party time! This week we chat the many ways workplaces host and promote celebrations, some common challenges, and how to think about office celebrations in a way that meet everyone’s needs for celebration.

This week we chat about the culture of tipping: where it comes from, the problems with it, and how to start rethinking this method of compensation. Whether or not you've worked in the service industry, we all interact with these services in our daily lives, and we can all help make it better.

This week we chat about the importance of making introductions: before a meeting, during a meeting, and as an action commitment. How do we best facilitate these new connections? How do they help everyone involved?

This week we chat about our physical work places, the pursuit of the coveted corner office, and how these spaces support and hinder our work and cultures.

This week we resume our Mindfulness series as we discuss bringing mindfulness to our language. What words do we choose? How do we best communicate? How do those around us communicate? How can we improve this process, decreasing stress and tension?

We've discussed giving effective feedback, and this week we chat about receiving it. We chat about how to identify helpful feedback, how to draw your boundaries, and how to solicit feedback that way that works best for you!

This week we chat more about a tool we've mentioned over many episodes: respectfully interrupting. Interrupting is considered rude, taboo, and even unsafe at times, so how do we do it effectively, with respect? We explore this tool, the reasons it's challenging, and some approaches that have worked for us over the years.

This week we continue our mindfulness series, with a focus on food. We are not nutrition experts! We instead invite you to join us in rethinking our relationship with food, and building in opportunities to make more intentional choices related to food in our every day lives.