Episode 11: Remote Work is Making You Boring

I don't *love* the culture of goal-setting and how binary and inflexible (and ultimately unattainable) it can be. I'm going to show you how I plan for a new year in my business. I call it Setting the GPS and what I really want to focus on is getting myself pointed in the right direction, and then having flexibility with the roads I take to get there. If you're interested in this kind of planning or just feeling nosy and want to poke into someone else's business goals for 2024, come join me!

Grace and Rachel discuss a recent social media post about gender bias against women in the workplace, and why they don't find that a helpful stance to take for women leaders on the rise.

Grace and Rachel discuss Grace's recent business/company shower, why it meant a lot to her to have the party framed as a shower and why we think it's important for everyone to be celebrating their friends and themselves as we tackle the work we spend most of our lives on.

Culture expert Grace and Founder coach Rachel talk about how counterintuitive it feels to talk about using your gut instinct at work, yet how many of us use it. They discuss some tools for honing your gut instinct, and why it's a little bit like magic.

Culture expert Grace and founder coach Rachel discuss why remote work isn't for everybody, why we shouldn't be valuing convenience over everything else, and why people are getting really boring by spending so much time working in isolation.

Culture expert Grace and Founder coach Rachel talk about why most company values fall flat. We walk through what it means to have a value that is directional- meaning, your team can take behavioral cues from it, and the similarities between personal values and company values. We talk about some great, albeit terrifying, examples of productive company values and give you a framework to create better guidance for your teams.

Culture expert Grace and Founder coach Rachel go completely off-book today and talk about what's going on in our businesses, what our real-time challenges are, what we do when we we're prepping for tough meetings and what we learned in companies before going off on our own.

Culture expert Grace and Founder coach Rachel talk about what happens when people feel like someone has more power and status than them...and it often turns very critical very fast. We talk about servant leadership vs. "focus on your own job" leadership and what cues your employees are taking from their lives online when they speak to and about you. We focus in on what kind of perspectives we think it is helpful for managers to have in these situations. We also have a fair bit of technical difficulties- for two people who coach others through remote work life, this is remote work at it's finest! If you're triggered by sound and audio issues (Zoom fatigue), skip through the first five minutes.

Culture expert Grace and founder coach Rachel talk about how to level up at work; what Gen Z is missing in work crushes, and what to look for in a work spouse.

This is our first solo episode - Grace will be walking us through how to use two of her favorite personality indicators to create better relationships with difficult coworkers.  The first test she'll be discussing is 16 Personalities version of Myers Briggs: https://www.16personalities.com/ The second test she'll be discussing is The Enneagram: https://www.eclecticenergies.com/enneagram/test If you already know about the tests and want to skip ahead, you can find:  - the three ways to use personality tests with coworkers at 0:50 - explanation of 16 Personalities/Myers Briggs at 2:45 - explanation of the Enneagram at 6:55 - how to use the tests in a work environment, starting at 9:08 Any questions, you can find us at [email protected]!