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Posts from Awesome Folks #19
Emily Webber
July 15, 2022
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.
Give me a little thumbs up at the end of the newsletter if you enjoyed it.
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."
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."
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."
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."
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."
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."
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."
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!"
