Hello hello,

this week has been a heatwave in the UK. We love talking about the weather, we do have a lot of it, and we especially love talking about why a heatwave in the UK is hotter than a heatwave anywhere else.

This week's posts include learning, progression, design thinking, enabling processes and innovation.

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Happy Friday

Emily

People and culture

Build Learning into Your Employees’ Workflow

By Bruce C. Rudy

"Learning and Development (L&D) programs are critical for the success of any organization."

https://hbr.org/2022/07/build-learning-into-your-employees-workflow

The secret to getting to the Staff+ level? Leverage

By Camille Fournier

"One of the great frustration points in the tech industry is the individual contributor career path. While most companies these days have a separate career track for people who don’t want to become managers, many people still end up becoming managers because they don’t feel capable of being promoted as individual contributors."

https://leaddev.com/career-paths-progression-promotion/secret-getting-staff-level-leverage

Design Thinking is Change Management 2.0

By Nicole Dessain

"Between 70–84 percent of transformations fail. Why? Reasons include a lack of engagement within the organization and insufficient investment in building capabilities across the organization to sustain the change."

https://nicoledessain.medium.com/design-thinking-is-change-management-2-0-ab01c77c7906

Organisations and systems

Two Conclusions for Product Teams from Airtable’s 2022 Product Insights Report

By Jeff Gothelf

"Last month, Airtable released its first product insights report looking into how product teams are working and accomplishing their objectives, as well as where things can be improved."

https://jeffgothelf.com/blog/two-conclusions-for-product-teams-from-airtables-2022-product-insights-report/

How to navigate organizational changes

By Leslie Chapman

"Dealing with change is rarely easy. If your company has just announced a big shift in direction or a full reorg, what should you do? First, take a deep breath. It’s going to be okay. If you need to do a five-sense check-in, do so now. Ground yourself. You still have a job."

https://leaddev.com/self-care-burnout/how-navigate-organizational-changes

How PayPal Gets Employees Invested in Innovation

By Gerry Tsoukalas

"Crowdsourcing is often used to foster innovation, but in practice unlocking the wisdom of the crowd is easier said than done. Firms can be overwhelmed by bad or useless ideas, which can clog up the process and even lead a company astray."

https://hbr.org/2022/07/how-paypal-gets-employees-invested-in-innovation

Tools and approaches for teams

How We Structure Design Team Meetings

By Lee Munroe

"Most meetings suck. At least that’s what most people would say about most meetings. But team meetings are important. They foster collaboration, feedback, and communication."

https://leemunroe.medium.com/how-we-structure-design-team-meetings-29a4ba016088

Other things

Are you too missing the office?

By Familjen STHLM and Red Pipe Studios

"We missed the sound of our colleagues so much that we created this website as a substitute. Start listening by unmuting the sound up here!"

https://soundofcolleagues.com/