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Are you a designer that’s feeling burned out by all the Slack, email, and million other notifications you get on a daily basis? Or that your dream job would so quickly turn into a nightmare, one the darkest reaches of your subconscious couldn’t conjure. You’re not alone in your newfound disaffection for your job. With […]
Sally Grisedale
6/24/22
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Managing personalities in a design team becomes easier when you understand why team members behave in certain ways under stress. When you can support them in changing their emotional state, they are no longer hostage to feeling fear and their rational brain can begin working again. So what environmental factors stress out a design team […]
Sally Grisedale
12/15/21
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The State of Cross Functional Dysfunction in Corporations Today Software development today is a collaborative process across a broad range of groups (XFN), that might include Data Science, User Research, Product Management, Engineering, User Research, UI Design, UX Design, Content Strategy, Product Marketing, Network Operations and Legal In addition to the requirement of organizational collaboration, […]
Sally Grisedale
12/03/21
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Have you ever been promoted, taken a new job, or started a business and felt like a fraud? This is called imposter syndrome. Anyone can have it. The comedian Tina Fey said, “The beauty of the impostor syndrome is you vacillate between extreme egomania and a complete feeling of: ‘I’m a fraud! Oh God, they’re […]
Sally Grisedale
11/10/21
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When my coach suggested I could leave corporate life and be a coach, every cell in my body vibrated with the truth of her suggestion. I was on the top floor of the Nobu Hotel in Palo Alto looking out at the mountains. My thoughts ran to them and they boomeranged back: Yes, that’s you! […]
Sally Grisedale
10/21/21
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When your time in a leadership role comes to an end, it can be devastating to leave behind the teams you developed and who supported you. You miss the close relationships you developed, the rapport you built, and the joy of watching people you hired advance their own careers under your guidance. After you have […]
Sally Grisedale
10/19/21
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The role of leaders today is to be responsible for the care of the people they lead. But how can you demonstrate care when you can’t take a new hire out for coffee or lunch to introduce them to colleagues? Here’s a couple of ideas. I recall a time before COVID-19 when on my first […]
Sally Grisedale
10/14/21
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Contrary to popular belief, it’s not how full your calendar is that leads to your success; it’s how you level up your relationships and expand your sphere of influence that leads to your success. During my first six months working at a new company, my executive assistant, Anna, had complete control of my calendar. In […]
Sally Grisedale
10/14/21
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My executive career was spent leading others, and when I lost my team, I lost myself. Creating product design teams in three countries over four years has been one of my greatest professional achievements. When my position as chief design officer was eliminated, I was devastated. It felt like my life was slipping through my […]
Sally Grisedale
10/14/21
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December 2020 and it’s been 30 days and I’ve watched the complete series of Bridgerton, Virgin River, The Queen’s Gambit, Lupin, and my current guilty pleasure, Lucifer. I wanted to remain immune to subscription TV, but when friends and family of all ages and nationalities shared how Bridgerton had improved their sex life and were […]
