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Thinkydoers Ep 03: Replacing "managing up" with a culture of self-management
This episode is part two in this two-part series, where we dive into why and how organizations can replace "managing up" with building a culture of self-management. With norms established around expectations and goal alignment, communication, and candor and truthfulness…

Thinkydoers Ep 02: The downsides of “managing up”
This is the first in a two-part series about why we work with clients to uncover and unlearn the behavior of "managing up," and replace it with a culture of self-management. It IS necessary to carefully and intentionally manage our relationships at work (up, down, and across), but the way managing up is coached in many organizations centers leaders instead of the work itself. The practice is inefficient…

Happy Birthday, Red Currant Collective
We’re not going to share all the details here on the blog, but I do want to catch you up on where we started and where we are now. (The sneak peek of where we’re going is only for the folks who’ve joined our email list.)
Red Currant Collective was a hopeful idea: that my background and track record working with the Objective and Key Result (OKR) goal-alignment methodology was rare and valuable enough to build a solopreneur business around.

Are your goals for the new year on track?
By this point in the year -- 1/3 of the way through Q1 -- many of us have already abandoned any New Years Resolutions we set -- and in our work lives, we may still be digging out from year-end, having missed a month of achievement toward our 2022 goals. We're not going to start with goal-setting today -- most of you have already done that step.
Instead, we're going to learn a bit more about the types of goals you've set already, and share a few simple steps to help you get your goal achievement plan on track.