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✅ Today’s checklist:
- The questions you should ask your direct reports
- How to manage work when everything is a “priority”
- The Big FU
- A craft idea: sewing swimsuit bottoms in 30 min
QUICK LINKS
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💬 Communication: Learn when to use emojis in work emails.
💁🏽♀️ Workplace: Why are high-potential women hesitant about leadership?
🎧 Podcasts: Check out the top true crime podcasts to binge.
LEADERSHIP
The Questions You Should Ask Your Direct Reports
Takeaways:
- Instead of just transactional talk, it’s important to ask the right questions to get the insights you need.
- Ditch: “How are you?”
- Try: “What roadblocks are there that I can help remove to help you get your job done? How can I make your job easier? How can I help you get things across the finish line?”
MUST-WATCH WEBINAR
Lead Inclusively, Perform Exceptionally
Discover the key to high-performing teams in Traliant’s on-demand webinar: “Inclusive Management: The Key to High-Performing Teams.”
Why it’s a must-watch webinar:
- Gain insights from Sarah Rowell, an expert in inclusive leadership, on practical steps your managers can take to enhance team dynamics.
- Understand the competitive edge that inclusive managers provide by improving team collaboration, decision-making, and overall performance.
- Experience a live demo of Traliant’s “Inclusive Management: Building Diverse Teams” course, showcasing real stories of how inclusive leadership impacts workplace interactions.
PRIORITIZATION
How to Manage Work When Everything is a “Priority”
Takeaways:
- The paradox of choice is when too many options lead to mental overwhelm.
- Binary comparison: When looking to prioritize, only compare 2 at a time because the brain is better at making binary decisions.
- The Eisenhower Matrix: Look at each individual task and ask 1) how urgent is this? 2) how important is this? Then categorize it into do, decide, delegate, delete.
CLIENT RETENTION
The Big FU (Follow Up)
Takeaways:
- Make sure you’re following up with your clients after a service—how their experience went, what you did well, and what you can do better.
- Consider sending out an automated email 48 hours post service to get feedback.
- Ask them to rate their experience, if they would refer a friend, rate you on Google/Yelp, etc.
PRODUCTIVITY HACK
That Meeting Could Have Been a Guidde
Manifest this: instead of summoning the entire team for another round of snooze-inducing meetings, why not let Guidde work its AI magic?
Transform your instructions into engaging how-to videos that your team will actually watch and enjoy.
CRAFTS
Easy Swimsuit Bottoms You Can Sew in 30 Minutes
Takeaways:
- Starting by using a simple paper pattern, you cut out the outline of the bottoms.
- Then you cut the fabric and an inner liner to match, sew the bottoms with a straight stitch. For the top of the suit, use a zigzag stitch. Cut excess.
- For the strings, sew the pattern inside out then use a Tina loop turner to pull the string through. Enjoy!
STAFF PICKS
Stuff We’re Loving This Week
😴 Sleep like Sleeping Beauty with this eye mask.
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🎶 Need to relax and sleep? Turn on this brown noise playlist.
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JUST FOR FUN
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
🚨 Job Alerts
- C&G Consulting Services, Inc is hiring for a CFO (Newark, NJ).
- Apex Systems is hiring for a Network Engineer (Sumter, SC).
- 24 Seven Talent is hiring for a Project/Production Manager(beauty)-LA (Los Angeles, CA).
- Basic Resources, Inc. is hiring for a Human Resources Business Partner (New York, NY/Hybrid).