FYI Weekly - For Your Inspiration
5 Developments and curiosities across organizational change, writing strategy and describing your WHY, communication, and disruptive skills
This week’s FYI First Five are focused on developments and curiosities across organizational change, writing strategy and purpose, communication, disruptive skills, and giving yourself permission to pause! Enjoy!
1/ It might be more about YOU than you think
Organizational Change
HBR explores the 6 levers of a successful organizational transformation. Number #1 is: Leadership’s own willingness to change
Many people believe that a leader’s job is to look outward and give others guidance, but our research suggests that to help their workforce navigate a transformation, leaders need to look inward first and examine their own relationship with change.
Wondering where to start? Level up to become a creative leader! Take the self-assessment. What you can expect in working with a coach is this: “I think I became even more aware of myself, who I am.”
2/ Hell, yes! How to write and make people feel something!
Strategy and WHY
The intellect is a great danger to creativity. Learn about how to write anything (Strategy, Purpose, your WHY) so people actually begin to feel something.
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3/ So, you say you prefer harmony over conflict?
Communication
Typically the way this story goes is: there are things that are happening, and somebody doesn't want to deal with the ramifications of the conversation. Emotions pile up. Now, what? That's where conflict avoidance comes in. Another example: Like a boss who comes in and yells. He is not conflict avoidant but also not using conflict to create great solutions or to create connection.
Now, what? It is noticing the tension that is there, in you, or the conflict that is there, or the friction that is there, and then leaning in instead of leaning away from it.
4/ Never stop exploring! Almost free learning paths
Disruptive Skills
Even though I do not consider myself a tech person, I always find it fascinating to check out free learning resources becoming available and get a sense of what developers and builders are up to!
AI
Generative AI Learning by Google - A curated collection of content on generative AI products and technologies.
Download Llama 2 by Meta - A large language model. Free for research and commercial use!
Blockchain & Web3
Token Engineering by TE Academy - For non-tech people: Module 1 is challenging but great!
Web3 101 Course by Metamask - The Basics for Web3 - Digital Ownership, Decentralized Finance, NFTs and the Age of Communities
New Ways of Working
Async Collaboration for Distributed Teams by Atlassian - Reduce meetings and improve team effectiveness with async tools and techniques
TeamOps by Gitlab - collaborate more effectively by adopting virtual-first, async-first, and/or handbook-first ways of working.
Connection & Relationships
The Connection Course by Art of Accomplishment - learn the technique and state of mind that drive the self-discovery that supercharges your capacity for work, connection, and enjoyment.
5/ Do Pause! Machines are designed to run constantly; people aren’t.
Book
A pause is not nothing and it is not empty. It means I can step out of the wheel. Clear, reset, center, connect, realign, regenerate, and resume.
The Pause Manifesto (includes the permission slip seen above)