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Is research still a great investment? Our guest today is Alice Lee, Strategy Director at Work & Co. You'll learn about their shippable user research process, how to ask the right questions about things you don't know, how they helped GoFundMe with their charity action page, and more.Podcast feed: subscribe to https://feeds.simplecast.com/4MvgQ73R in your favorite podcast app, and follow us on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Podcasts.Show NotesWork & CoJust Enough Research – a book by Erika HallUX Collective – a great blog on designCheck out Alice's websiteFollow Alice on LinkedInThis episode is brought to you by Wix Studio — the new web platform for agencies and enterprises. The magic of Wix Studio is its advanced design capabilities which makes website creation efficient and intuitive. Here are a few things you can do:Work in sync with your team on one canvasReuse templates, widgets and sections across sitesCreate a client kit for seamless handoversAnd leverage best-in-class SEO defaults across all your Wix sitesStep into Wix Studio to see more at wix.com/studioInterested in sponsoring an episode? Learn more here.Leave a ReviewReviews are hugely important because they help new people discover this podcast. If you enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave a review on iTunes. Here's how.
Chase Reeves—digital creator, brand consultant, and close friend—opens up about his life journey following the sudden loss of his brother and the separation from his marriage partner, the mother of his children. In the midst of these significant life transitions, Chase finds himself in a period of personal reinvention.With over a decade of experience in Christian faith, men's work, relationships, and parenting, Chase reflects on these areas while exploring how he's created more room for joy, connection, and self-acceptance during challenging times.Chase and I dive into…➝ A new way to experience men's work➝ Why he left the Christian church after 12 years➝ Parenting tips for fostering deeper connections after divorce➝ How gratitude became a life-saving practice➝ Self-discovery in the wake of his brother's passingREFERENCEDDavid Sutcliffe: https://www.davidsutcliffe.comTerry Real: https://terryreal.com/CONNECT WITH CHASEInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/chasewreeves/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@chasereevesWebsites: https://chasereeves.co/CONNECT WITH CALInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/cal.callahan/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegreatunlearnYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/thegreatunlearn/Website: https://www.thegreatunlearn.comSubscribe to the newsletter: https://www.thegreatunlearn.com/newsletter
This week on the podcast is part two of our interview with Heather Bhandari. She's the Co-Founder of CreativeStudy: an online business and financial health education platform for creatives. Heather is also an independent curator and writer; a co-founder of the project-based curatorial team and podcast, The RStyemix; and an adjunct lecturer at Brown University where she teaches professional practice to artists.She received a BA from Brown University and an MFA from Penn State University.If you enjoy Heather's book Art/Work, you won't want to miss these episodes as we touch on a variety of topics from the book and beyond! https://heatherbhandari.com/; https://creativestudy.com/; https://theremix.nyc/
This week on the podcast is part one of our interview with Heather Bhandari. She's the Co-Founder of CreativeStudy: an online business and financial health education platform for creatives. Heather is also an independent curator and writer; a co-founder of the project-based curatorial team and podcast, The RStyemix; and an adjunct lecturer at Brown University where she teaches professional practice to artists.She received a BA from Brown University and an MFA from Penn State University.If you enjoy Heather's book Art/Work, you won't want to miss these episodes as we touch on a variety of topics from the book and beyond! https://heatherbhandari.com/; https://creativestudy.com/; https://theremix.nyc/
Sophie Wade is a work futurist and strategist, author and authority on the Future of Work, instructor on Gen Z, empathy, and Future of Work skills, and host of this show. Sophie discusses modern work—what it is, why and how it is different and human-centric. She explains how to adapt to be prepared for the ongoing changes around and ahead of us, accelerated by AI. Sophie sets the landscape, describes enterprise needs, and why employees are the focus for the future. She shares the core principles of modern work and why practicing empathy is key. TAKEAWAYS [00:45] Sophie wants to take stock of where we are and what's ahead that we need to prepare for. [01:27] Our environment is highly-digitalized and interconnected, generating fast-paced change. [03:30] Artificial intelligence has become a top strategic priority for most businesses. [04:19] Driven by technology, is your customer base changing, how you serve them, or how quickly you have to upgrade your products? [04:49] To respond to marketplace demands, operations become more flexible and the nature of work evolves. [05:52] The pandemic catalyzed us along a path we were already on. [06:12] The impact of technology updates on employees needing frequently to upskill and reskill. [07:07] Why enterprises need to create a skills inventory and be mapping every employee's skills. [07:28] Hierarchies have flattened for businesses to be more nimble. [08:10] Non-linear careers must be planned and managed even when skills and roles are evolving. [08:50] Internal talent marketplaces and cross organization relationships facilitate non-vertical career development. [09:41] Why younger employees quit if they can't easily move internally with their current employer. [10:43] Jobs with high and low automation potential can be compared for skills matching to assess possible future transfers. [11:53] How BCG consultants used GPT4 and completed more tasks faster and better! [13:11] Why the Future of Work is tech-driven and talent-focused. [13:54] Empathy is essential in modern work to ensure the emphasis is on people. [14:38] Each business is different so there are principles of modern work to adapt appropriately. [15:10] The core principles of modern work are: Learning, Intention, Flexibility, and Empathy. [16:25] Why workers need to be creators. [17:04] Thinking outside the box is critical and what the box symbolizes—before and now. [17:45] A strong culture is essential, grounded by empathy and other timeless values. [18:50] AI is likely to net out creating more jobs, but much will shift during the transition. [19:10] What is the broader impact of encouraging your team to use of AI? [20:11] Empathy can help us focus on progress rather than more debates about work locations. [20:52] IMMEDIATE ACTION TIP: To start the transition to modern work, be curious and open-minded. Ask coworkers for ideas and recommendations and explore new possibilities. Curiosity primes you for learning, being flexible, and empathy about other's viewpoints. [21:27] Modern work IS different—adjusting for our new environment as well as enterprise and employee needs. [22:17] The process of transformation is messy, but there are great benefits all round when we create and co-create together. RESOURCES Sophie Wade on LinkedIn Sophie's personal/speaker website Sophie company Flexcel Network's website QUOTES “These change that are upon us has been building in momentum for years already and causing strain within our fixed internal structures.” “We have been transitioning for years already to modern work which is about flexibility—accommodating activities that are less linear, less routine, with more collaborative and cross disciplinary.” “Numerous rigid layers of hierarchy have intentionally been reduced significantly in many cases to enable businesses to be more nimble and responsive.” “Stronger relationships are critical to develop deliberately across organizations to permit non vertical career development, so that managers are willing to share one of their rising stars to another team or division.” “For now, it is easier for employees to quit to advance their careers than move within their own organization.” “The Future of Work is tech-driven and talent focused.” “Empathy is essential in modern work—giving us each ability to understand other's perspectives and connect with their experiences.” “Everyone providing value to your business across your entire workforce needs to be a “creator”.”
Jayne Warrilow was supposed to die in 2011… … yet she's today's guest, so obviously that didn't happen! Jayne Warrilow is a global speaker, bestselling author, and sought-after Business / Executive Coach that plays at the intersection between soul, business, and technology. In today's episode, you'll learn: 1. How her youngest son, Jacob, insisting on bringing home a book with a rainbow on the cover changed Jayne's life 2. How to uncover your Soul's work & integrate your calling into your business 3. What POWERFUL questions you should be asking yourself to better understand your life's purpose Enjoy! To learn more about Jayne, visit https://gobeyondcurious.com/podcast/jayne-warrilow/
Discover why Curtis (CEO of Improving) has over 1000 employees who participate in trust pods, how he built an Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Co and a Best Place to Work Co, and when he discovered his blind spot (15 minutes). CEO BLINDSPOTS® PODCAST GUEST: Curtis A. Hite. Curtis is the CEO of Improving. He began his career as a software engineer building systems in the Defense industry – first with Rockwell International and then at E-Systems (later acquired by Raytheon). In 1998, Curtis and several partners founded Expede, a software development consulting and training company. Its quick growth drew the attention of a French company, Valtech, which acquired them in 1999. Curtis soon became CEO of Valtech's North American operations and remained in that position until late 2006. In early 2007, Curtis and many of the same partners established the Blue Ocean Group, which quickly acquired a small training company called Improving Enterprises and adopted the Improving name. The company has been blessed with continued growth since then — repeatedly receiving accolades including the Inc500/5000, Dallas 100, and Aggie 100. More importantly, the company has received recognitions from its employees as one of the best work places in Texas as noted by the Dallas Morning News, Dallas Business Journal, and Texas Monthly. Curtis graduated from Texas A&M University in 1994 with a B.S. and M.S. in computer science. At Texas A&M, he was a member of the Corps of Cadets, serving as commanding officer of Squadron 6 and as a member of the Ross Volunteers. In 2007 Curtis was honored by the Department of Computer Science as a CSE Distinguished Former Student and later in 2013 he received the inaugural Outstanding Early Professional Achievement Alumni Honor Award from the Dwight Look College of Engineering. For more information about Improving; https://improving.com/ CEO Blindspots® podcast host: Birgit Kamps. Investors and CEOs rely on Birgit to quickly discover blind spots holding their organization back, and accelerate leadership effectiveness. Her professional experience includes starting and selling an “Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Company” and a “Best Company to Work for in Texas”, and serving as a Board Member with various companies. In addition, Birgit is the host of the CEO Blindspots® Podcast which was recognized by Spotify for having the “biggest listener growth” in the USA by 733%; https://www.ceoblindspots.com/ To ask questions about this or one of the 200+ other CEO Blindspots® Podcast episodes, send an email to birgit@ceoblindspots.com
How do you make sure your product “sounds” on-brand? Our guest today is Reese Fuller, lead writer at Work & Co. You'll learn what brand voice looks like as a deliverable, the process of developing it, how to approach overhaul projects for mature brands, and more.Podcast feed: subscribe to https://feeds.simplecast.com/4MvgQ73R in your favorite podcast app, and follow us on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Podcasts.Show NotesWork & Co – Reese's place of workApple's Human Interface GuidelinesMailchimp's Content Style GuideConsumer Packaged Goods DirectoryThinkTesting.comThe Brand IdentityUX Content CollectiveContent + UXConnect with Reese on LinkedInThis episode is brought to you by Zeplin. Design tools can do almost anything, and with Zeplin they can go even further. Stop spending your time preparing design files for your developers and your PMs. Let Zeplin do it for you! Show user journeys, organize screens, highlight components automatically. See how you can go from design to production faster at zeplin.io.Interested in sponsoring an episode? Learn more here.Leave a ReviewReviews are hugely important because they help new people discover this podcast. If you enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave a review on iTunes. Here's how.
This is an episode that could have easily made the cut as part of what used to be the Light Worker series. With Spooky Season now behind us we talk more of a spiritual turn in this next chapter. https://www.somaticbreathwork.comThis was the site co-founded by our guest Fish Fischer. In this chat we learn about Fish's journey to this modality and how he had to hit his form of rock bottom to get there.Phantom Phil also shares his journey into this breath work from July 2022 and how he may have driven an entity out of his subconscious because of it.Phil also shares a touching moment he had with Fish on Instagram while he was bedside with his ailing father. Also hear about some of Fish's many travels.
This week's episode of ConsEUmer is co-hosted with Fabio Fernandes. In this episode:
Teddy Woodward, Co-founder of Notional Finance, joined us for an interview to dive into the details behind the charts available on Token Terminal. In this extended version of our interview with Teddy we discuss the risks that lending protocols face during the Ethereum merge, give a detailed overview of Notionals tokenomics, and describe the different roles that community contributors have. Notional's dashboard: https://tokenterminal.com/terminal/projects/notional-finance Notional Finance: https://www.notional.finance/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/NotionalFinance Teddy's Twitter: https://twitter.com/teddywoodward Make sure to leave a comment if you have any questions
The last few weeks have been extremely difficult for all of us as a nation. At NextUp, we know how painful and difficult conversations on these topics can be. Members have asked us, How do I talk about this with my team? How do I make sure they have what they need when these issues are so polarizing? This week on Advancing ALL Women, we're discussing 'Facilitating Difficult Conversations' with guests Brandi Greene, Managing Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Work & Co, and Karen Jones, VP, Learning and Partner Solutions, NextUp. We'll discuss best practices for supporting employees and fostering candid conversations on the difficult topics and tramautic events unfolding around us.
The last few weeks have been extremely difficult for all of us as a nation. At NextUp, we know how painful and difficult conversations on these topics can be. Members have asked us, How do I talk about this with my team? How do I make sure they have what they need when these issues are so polarizing? This week on Advancing ALL Women, we're discussing 'Facilitating Difficult Conversations' with guests Brandi Greene, Managing Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Work & Co, and Karen Jones, VP, Learning and Partner Solutions, NextUp. We'll discuss best practices for supporting employees and fostering candid conversations on the difficult topics and tramautic events unfolding around us.
The last few weeks have been extremely difficult for all of us as a nation. At NextUp, we know how painful and difficult conversations on these topics can be. Members have asked us, How do I talk about this with my team? How do I make sure they have what they need when these issues are so polarizing? This week on Advancing ALL Women, we're discussing 'Facilitating Difficult Conversations' with guests Brandi Greene, Managing Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Work & Co, and Karen Jones, VP, Learning and Partner Solutions, NextUp. We'll discuss best practices for supporting employees and fostering candid conversations on the difficult topics and tramautic events unfolding around us.
The last few weeks have been extremely difficult for all of us as a nation. At NextUp, we know how painful and difficult conversations on these topics can be. Members have asked us, How do I talk about this with my team? How do I make sure they have what they need when these issues are so polarizing? This week on Advancing ALL Women, we're discussing 'Facilitating Difficult Conversations' with guests Brandi Greene, Managing Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Work & Co, and Karen Jones, VP, Learning and Partner Solutions, NextUp. We'll discuss best practices for supporting employees and fostering candid conversations on the difficult topics and tramautic events unfolding around us.
Atlanta is a city known for many things: the food, the music, the culture. The traffic! But I don't know if Atlanta's really ever been seen as a design city like one would see New York or Chicago. That reputation is rapidly changing though, and that's thanks to Chip Gross. Chip is the managing director for Work & Co's newest office in Atlanta, and with over 20 years of experience under his belt, he's helping the city be recognized as a destination for design talent. We started off talking about his new position, including how it differs from his past roles, as well as the challenges of setting up a new office during a pandemic. Chip also spoke about growing up throughout New England and attending UPenn, starting his career in Chicago, and then moving to Atlanta for grad school. We also talked about Chip's experiences at IBM, iXL, Brighthouse, and AKQA, and how those prepared him for what he's doing now. Chip has put in the work and now it's time for him to take center stage!LinksWork & Co Atlanta OfficeChip Gross on LinkedInFor extended show notes, including a full transcript of this interview, visit revisionpath.com.==========Take our 2022 audience survey! We want to hear from you and learn what you think about Revision Path. The survey will be open until midnight on May 31! Take the survey at revisionpath.com/survey.==========Sponsored by HoverBuilding your online brand has never been more important and that begins with your domain name. Show the online community who you are and what you're passionate about with Hover. With over 400+ domain name extensions to choose from, including all the classics and fun niche extensions, Hover is the only domain provider we use and trust.Ready to get started? Go to hover.com/revisionpath and get 10% off your first purchase.==========Follow and SubscribeLike this episode? Then subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your favorite shows.Follow us there, and leave us a 5-star rating and a review! Thanks so much to all of you who have already rated and reviewed us!You can also follow Revision Path on Instagram and Twitter.==========CreditsRevision Path is brought to you by Lunch, a multidisciplinary creative studio in Atlanta, GA.It is produced by Maurice Cherry and engineered and edited by RJ Basilio. Our intro voiceover is by Music Man Dre, with intro and outro music by Yellow Speaker. Transcripts provided by Brevity & Wit.Thank you for listening!
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“How do I get a place at the decision-making table?” For those of us in the data industry, we hear this question from other analytics professionals often. “How do I have my voice heard?” We face the challenge of trying - and often failing - to influence decisions in our organisations. Analytics is still seen as a subset of other teams. But how do you have your voice heard when no one is listening? Antony has the answer. Meet Antony Ugoni Antony's Role as a Business Leader at Flow of Work Co Antony Ugoni is an Advisor at Flow of Work Co. Started up by a team of former colleagues, they believed it was time to rethink the way employees are developed, upskilled and deployed. With expertise in HR, innovation, people-analytics, technology, and behavioural science, Flow of Work is working with people-led organisations to maximise their workforce potential and help make their employees working hours more meaningful and enjoyable. Antony's Other Roles in the Data Analytics Community Other than his role at Flow of Work, Antony represents the Australian data analytics community in various ways. At the University of Melbourne, Antony has the role of a Board Member at the Centre for Business Analytics' Advisory Board. He is also a Chairperson at the Advisory Board of IAPA - the Institute of Analytics Professionals of Australia, and has been, until recently, a member of the Advisory Board for the Australian Alliance for Data Leadership and the Association for Data Driven Marketing and Advertising. With over 20 years in the industry and with these positions, Antony is ardently involved with activities and projects designed to drive analytic professionals to find seats at decision-making tables. It's his belief that, with a data-driven and evidence-based approach to decision making, organisations can flourish. Value, Analytics Professionals, and Decision-Making Tables In this exclusive analytics podcast episode, Antony shares: Transitioning from a biostatistician to his current career His work as a board member for Centre for Business Analytics at University of Melbourne and the Chairperson at the Institute of Analytics Professionals of Australia What attracted him to join and serve at the organisations If analytics professionals are seen as valuable enough by organisations in general The biggest challenge analytics professionals face when trying to influence decisions in their organisations What can be done to solve this problem of not utilising data and tech Whether analytics is still seen as a subset of other teams How to convince C-Levels to change their perception of viewing analytics professionals as only playing a supportive role As a community, what can we do to help analytics professionals have a seat at decision-making tables His advice for data analytics professionals to achieve a career in the business world If you are an analytics professional looking to find a seat at decision-making tables or a business owner seeking to integrate a more customer-centric approach to your business, this is the episode you do not want to miss out on. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/analyticsshow/message
In dieser Folge sprechen wir darüber, wie Co-Working-Spaces Bankleute und mobile Arbeiter:innen zusammenbringen können, wie gemeinschaftlich genutzte Arbeitsflächen auch abseits der Metropolen funktionieren und was Ansgar Oberholz, der Gründer des legendären St. Oberholz in Berlin, eigentlich damit zu tun hat. „Good News: gute Nachrichten & konstruktive Gespräche“ ist ein Podcast von Good News mit diversen Gäst:innen, etwa vom enorm Magazin. Good News: Bianca Kriel (Aufnahme und Redaktion) enorm Magazin: Anja Dilk (Aufnahme und Redaktion), Astrid Ehrenhauser (Redaktion) Ein Audio-Transkript der Folge findest du hier: https://enorm-magazin.de/wirtschaft/beruf-arbeit/new-work/transkript-good-news-enorm-podcast-folge-44 Mehr Good News bekommst du hier: https://goodnews.eu/ Die Artikel des enorm Magazins findest du auf: https://enorm-magazin.de/ Good News ist spendenbasiert, wenn dir unsere Arbeit und dieser Podcast gefallen, kannst du uns hier unterstützen: https://donorbox.org/good-news-app Du kannst das enorm Magazin mit einem einmaligen Beitrag unterstützen https://enorm-magazin.de/ist-es-mir-wert oder mit einem Abo: https://shop.enorm-magazin.de/collections/abos Quellen & Verweise für die Folge Ein Interview von Anja Dilk aus dem Jahr 2007 mit dem Begründer von New Work, dem Philosophen Frithjof Bergmann: https://enorm-magazin.de/wirtschaft/beruf-arbeit/new-work/new-work-urlaub-bloss-nicht Bewirb dich auf diesen Job bei unserem Schwester-Unternehmen Good Jobs: https://goodjobs.eu/jobs/account-managerin-goodjobs-gmbh-1 Der Gute Nachrichten-Überblick: Deutsche Bahn testet erstmals Batteriezüge mit Fahrgästen https://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/handel/deutsche-bahn-batteriezug-mit-fahrgaesten-test-in-baden-wuerttemberg-und-bayern/27996430.html Rodgau will Tiere im Zirkus untersagen https://www.watson.de/nachhaltigkeit/gute%20nachricht/691673799-erste-kommune-in-deutschland-verbietet-tiere-im-zirkus #OutInChruch: Mitarbeitende der katholischen Kirche verkünden Coming-out https://www.zeit.de/news/2022-01/24/125-mitarbeiter-der-katholischen-kirche-outen-sich-als-queer Eine Million Unterschriften gegen Haiflossen-Handel https://www.srf.ch/news/international/tierschutz-fuer-haie-eine-million-eu-buerger-fordern-verbot-von-haiflossen-handel Durchbruch in der Optogenetik: Blinder Proband kann teilweise wieder sehen https://www.nationalgeographic.de/wissenschaft/2022/01/optogenetik-wenn-blinde-wieder-sehen-koennen Zu erreichen sind wir per Mail: redaktion@goodnews.eu oder unter: https://www.instagram.com/goodnews.eu/ https://twitter.com/goodnews_deu https://www.facebook.com/goodnewsapp01
Cover Photo: Captain Richard Vaux(left), and Brad Kuhn(right): Co-Authors of Dirty Work. Brad Kuhn is a professional author. He has often performed as a ghost-writer. He helped Captain Richard Vaux tell the story of recovering the hijacked TWA B-727 from war torn Beirut, Lebanon in 1985. He can be reached at BradKuhnandassociates.com 2:30 Ghostwriter vs Co-Author 6:00 From pilot stories to relevant context 8:00 Afghanistan 10:45 Geopolitical Context of the Times 13:00 Sense of Duty 15:00 TWA in Turmoil 16:10 Naabi Berri (SP?) 18:00. Hijackers let free 20:00 Carl Seeland 20:40 Memories over time 22:30 Corrections to a Print on Demand Book 25:35 Print on Demand as a business model 29:00 Where this Podcast is headed 29:45 Great Aviation Stories 31:00 The Craft of Making a Good Book 32:50. Sense of camaraderie after a job well done 34:40 Shared Stories 38:00 Respect the telling of a story 39:00 Lou Rehr 41:30 Evolution of a Story.. Maine ANG Training Runs 47:15 Twa Cargo for US Military Over Iran 53:00 White Line Fever 60:00 When you fail at trucking 62:50 Truckers and Pilots 67:00 Truthiness 70:30 Talking Heads and Conflict 78:00 Getting into a Hobby 79:33 Dedication
Episode 166 of the Business Bookshelf podcast - Dr Timothy Franz - author of "Meaningful Partnership at Work: How the Workplace Covenant Ensures Mutual Accountability and Success between Leaders and Teams". Dr Timothy Franz is an Organizational Psychologist, Professor of Psychology, and Chair at St. John Fisher College. In addition to his academic role, he also works as an organizational consultant through his firm, Franz Consulting. He is the co-author of “Meaningful Partnership at Work: How the Workplace Covenant Ensures Mutual Accountability and Success between Leaders and Teams”. Why are some work partnerships exceptional while most are not? How can we establish and sustain an enhanced level of cohesion, connection, and collaboration in the most important work relationship, the one between a manager and team? What could remedy the high levels of isolation and anxiety so many feel at work these days? He explores the concept of ‘meaningful partnership' in the workplace. They present meaningful partnership as a mindset where both leaders and their teams are fully committed to ensuring the support and success of the other. The book can be purchased here - https://amzn.to/2YP9o1n. Email the host of the podcast Lance Peppler at lance@ideastorm.co.za --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/businessbookshelf/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/businessbookshelf/support
Unser heutiger Gast beschäftigt sich seit vielen Jahren mit der Frage, wie sich unsere wichtigsten Institutionen, ob in der Wirtschaft, im Gesundheitswesen, in der Regierung oder im gemeinnützigen Sektor, von den Nachteilen ihrer Größe und der selbst geschaffenen Bürokratie befreien können. Seit mehr als zehn Jahren untersucht er Organisationen und Teams, die anders arbeiten. Das sind Organisationen, in denen Anpassungsfähigkeit und Autonomie gegenüber Effizienz und Kontrolle im Vordergrund stehen. Er ist der Gründer von "The Ready", einer Beratungs- und Coaching-Organisation. Mit seinem Team hilft er Organisationen, neue Formen der Selbstorganisation und dynamischen Teamarbeit einzuführen. Zu seinen Kunden zählen Unternehmen wie General Electric, Microsoft, Citibank, Airbnb und Charles Schwab. Unser Gast ist auch ein aktiver Angel-Investor und wir sind auf ihn aufmerksam geworden, weil er eines der wichtigsten Bücher über die Zukunft der Arbeit geschrieben hat. Es hat auch einen der besten Titel: Es heißt: "Brave New Work ". Seit mehr als 4 Jahren sind wir auf dem "Weg zur neuen Arbeit". Wie kann ein Thema, das in unserem Alltag eine so wichtige Rolle spielt, wieder mehr Sinn in unserem Leben schaffen? Wie schaffen wir es, dass Menschen wieder Kraft und Motivation aus ihrer täglichen Arbeit schöpfen? Und wie kann es gelingen, auch in solch schwierigen Zeiten ein sinnerfülltes, glückliches, gesundes, produktives und erfülltes Leben zu führen? Wir sind auf der Suche nach Methoden, Vorbildern, Erfahrungen, Werkzeugen und Ideen, die uns dem Kern von New Work näher bringen! Es geht uns immer um die Frage, ob jeder Mensch wirklich das finden und leben kann, was er im Innersten wirklich will. Ihr seid bei "Auf dem Weg zu New Work" mit Aaron Dignan
Whether you like it or not, writing is an integral part of the design process these days, and no one knows this better than this week's guest, Reese Fuller. As a senior writer for digital agency Work & Co, Reese works with visual designers and strategists to help "make the words sound good." Our conversation started off with Reese detailing how he works as a writer in a design agency, talked about his switch from STEM to writing, and cleared up some misconceptions designers may have about including writing in the design process. Reese also spoke about growing up in the DMV area, the difference for him between working in agencies vs. in-house at companies, and gives some great advice and resources for any designers looking to strengthen their writing. Don't sleep on the written word -- with examples like Reese, it's clear that there's more than one way to be in the design industry!LinksReese Fuller's WebsiteReese Fuller on InstagramReese Fuller on LinkedInFor extended show notes, including a full transcript of this interview, visit revisionpath.com.==========Sponsored by AdobeSupport for Revision Path comes from Adobe MAX.Adobe MAX is the annual global creativity conference and it's going online this year -- October 26th through the 28th. This is sure to be a creative experience like no other. Plus, it's all free. Yep - 100% free!With over 25 hours of keynotes, luminary speakers, breakout sessions, workshops, musical performances and even a few celebrity appearances, it's going to be one-stop shopping for your inspiration, goals and creative tune-ups.Did I mention it's free?Explore over 300 sessions across 11 tracks, hear from amazing speakers and learn new creative skills… all totally free and online this October.To register, head to max.adobe.com.==========Sponsored by Brevity & WitBrevity & Wit is a strategy and design firm committed to designing a more inclusive and equitable world.We accomplish this through graphic design, presentations and workshops around I-D-E-A: inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility.If you're curious to learn how to combine a passion for I-D-E-A with design, check us out at brevityandwit.com.Brevity & Wit — creative excellence without the grind.==========Follow and SubscribeLike this episode? Then subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your favorite shows.Follow us there, and leave us a 5-star rating and a review! Thanks so much to all of you who have already rated and reviewed us!You can also follow Revision Path on Instagram and Twitter.==========CreditsRevision Path is brought to you by Lunch, a multidisciplinary creative studio in Atlanta, GA.It is produced by Maurice Cherry and engineered and edited by RJ Basilio. Our intro voiceover is by Music Man Dre, with intro and outro music by Yellow Speaker.Thank you for listening!
In today's episode, we speak with Helena Turpin - Co-Founder at Flow of Work Co and Shane Little - MD of Hays Talent Solutions APAC.The ATC Innovation Lab is the destination for the newest and most cutting-edge HR technology and Flow of Work took out the double at the 2021 edition - winning both the popular vote and the Sponsor's Award judged by Hays.Developing, retaining, and mobilising internal talent is one of the key challenges in all organisations right now... allow Helena to explain why 'Flow of Work' helps you meet that challenge.Thanks to Reejig for your fabulous support!
Ray Sison is a Senior Design Director for Product Design for SNKRS at Nike, designing for a niche community of sneakerheads. Before that, he was the Head of Design at Clarity Money, which was acquired by Goldman Sachs in 2018. He was previously a Design Director at both Work&Co and R/GA, and worked on top brands like Google, Apple, Facebook, Playstation, Fortnite, Aesop, Nike+, Nike Basketball, Samsung, and a lot more. In this episode, we talk about what it's like to design for a brand like Nike, how to be an effective design director, why making it harder to buy shoes makes sense, and so much more.
Ray Sison is a Senior Design Director for Product Design for SNKRS at Nike, designing for a niche community of sneakerheads. Before that, he was the Head of Design at Clarity Money, which was acquired by Goldman Sachs in 2018. He was previously a Design Director at both Work&Co and R/GA, and worked on top brands like Google, Apple, Facebook, Playstation, Fortnite, Aesop, Nike+, Nike Basketball, Samsung, and a lot more. In this episode, we talk about what it's like to design for a brand like Nike, how to be an effective design director, why making it harder to buy shoes makes sense, and so much more.
In this episode of Parents at Work, Lori welcomes to the podcast her husband and new co-host, Jason Levin, MBA. Jason is the founder of Ready Set Launch, LLC where he helps organizations, professional associations, executives and lawyers with career transition and business development needs through outplacement, individual coaching, training and webinars. Jason comes on as a guest to share his own experience with parenting (during a pandemic!) while also holding down a job and working for himself in his own business. Jason shares some empowering and actionable tips on everything from how to thrive at working from home with kids in the house, to how you can get your employer to be more accommodating of your needs as a working parent, and so much more. Tune in for a jam-packed 20-minute episode. Show Highlights Jason’s personal working parent journey: Working for someone and also going out on his own while being a parent (01:47) Setting clear goals on what you need to get done and how working for yourself goes back to sales (03:45) Concentrating on work when working from home especially during the pandemic (06:08) The Wall: How he created space for himself so he could focus more on achieving his work goals (08:30) The number one career tip for working parents as they ease back into the post Covid-19 vaccine world (09:50) How to recenter yourself throughout the day to be consistently focused (10:54) Navigating a world where the industry you worked for or your career was turned on its head by the Covid-19 pandemic (12:11) How to approach and negotiate with your employer to keep you while enabling you to parent better (18:07) Links and Resources To Sell is Human By Daniel Pink Jason@ReadySetLaunch.net Jason's Website Jason on Linkedin Lori's Website Lori on Linkedin
The Finding Happy mailbag is back! In this episode, I try answering this mailbag sender's question : "can passion co-exist with my profession?" The mailbag sender is currently in law school but wants to pursue his dreams in music. I give some tips and share my stories. Subscribe to the podcast and send in your letters to foreverhappydad@gmail.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jim-bacarro7/message
O Felipe merece uma nota especial :) - ele me ajudou a conectar com outras pessoas, pessoalmente me apresentando a outros convidados, aproveito para deixar mais um obrigado aqui. A minha entrevista com ele foi super bacana, falamos de Globo, HBO, Huge e da Work&Co obviamente. Lembre que você pode acessar a galeria virtual no endereço www.expatria.co Felipe na rede: Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/fmemoria Twitter: www.twitter.com/memo Website pessoal: www.fmemoria.com Website da Work&Co: www.work.co --- Obrigado a Invision por ser nosso parceiro comercial nessa temporada, aproveite do desconto de 25% que o nosso amigo Jardel está dando para todos os brasileiros que assinarem uma conta enterprise, entre em contato pelo email jardeldeandrade@invisionapp.com --- Vc pode sempre entrar em contato comigo pelos seguintes canais Email: a.lucca@luccaco.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/all_lucca LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/luccaco
“We are all in sales.” -Jeff Olson Competing on and off the field- who knew all those life AND business skills we were learning while competing when we were young! Today I sit down with Jeff Olson, Olympian, businessman, professional speaker, and so much more. We discuss all things marketing, branding, and monetizing your passions the right way- sports, wellness, and everything in between. We breakdown steps on how to correctly identify your goals, brand, and ideal potential partnerships. We discuss the difference between micro and macro influencers, good and services, and how not to be a broke influencer:). Create leverage- the right way. It’s all about relationships and supplying the body, mind, and soul with the right fuel. Remain curious and go after what you want. There is no better time than now to question a better way and start living the life you want to, your way. Highlights: Olympics. Business. Sport. Sales. Curiosity saving the cat. Fueling the mind, body, and soul. Lessons from our youth paying off as adults. Good and services monetizing your brand. Questioning a better way. Navigating sponsorships and building the right team. Jeff Olson, RLT FAITH: Yep. FAMILY: Married with 3 daughters (Denver, CO). WORK: Co-founder of several businesses. CAREER: SPORTS. MONEY. TECH. HEALTH. STARTUPS... I was transport for testosterone in my twenties and thirties. Overtraining ended my professional athletic career. Ambition drove me to Wall Street. Desire, to win fast, sucked me into technology. I made money, lost money, and built character. I was humbled in great ways. My father's health became a transformative career journey. Life, liberty, and your pursuits need a vehicle that is built to last and the treasure hunt is to find yours. I count my blessing daily and work to pay it forward. #OwnIt #BetterTogether #BeABlessing Professional athletics taught me about ownership, fear, and joy. Coaching taught me about connection, influence, and character. Financial career taught me about money, meaning, and abundance. Tech career taught me about thinking different, breakthroughs, and being effective. Our Agency teaches me people are fascinating, better together, and want to thrive. Partnering with people gifts me with patience & perspective, culture & contribution, success & fulfillment. JeffOlson.info @HealthyLivingAgency Connect with T&T: IG: @TurmericTequila Facebook: @TurmericAndTequila Website: www.TurmericAndTequila.com Host: Kristen Olson IG: @Madonnashero Tik Tok: @Madonnashero Email: Info@KOAlliance.com Website: www.KOAlliance.com
It's fantastic to have Paul McGregor back on the podcast. Paul is a mental health activist, campaigner and educator who shifted careers dramatically after losing his dad to suicide. On this episode we get into Paul's current project including the ambitious "Everymind at Work" a white label mental health support application for the work place. We also talk about how he is using platforms such as TikTok to reach a younger crowd and encouraging his own son Freddie into following in his footsteps with their mental health instagram lives. If you haven't heard Paul's previous episode on the podcast I would highly recommend going back for a listen! (It's episode 71) It was great to catch up with Paul and I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.
Ramblings of a Designer podcast is a weekly design news and discussion podcast hosted by Adan Zepeda (twit: @adanzepeda, insta: @adanz.designs) and Terri Rodriguez-Hong (@flaxenink, insta: flaxenink.design). Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Ramblings-of-a-Designer-Podcast-2347296798835079/ Send us feedback! ramblingsofadesignerpod@gmail.com, Support us on Patreon! patreon.com/ramblingsofadesigner This week we talk with Zoshua Colah. he is the founder of UX Library, a website with articles, books, courses, and tools for anyone who wishes to learn UX. He recently graduated from the Informatics program at the University of Washington, and his design work has driven results for organizations such as Adobe, University of Washington, and the Indian School of Design & Innovation, multiple small organizations and has started four successful non-profits outside of class - Dubstech, Humans of Tech, UX Library, and Data Science Library. He recently won the Best in Show Award at the Samsung Hackathon, been inducted into the UW Hall of Fame with Dubstech, and has also been selected in the top 100 design students in the USA for 2018 & 2019 by Design Nation. He now leads design at CryptoBriefing, a premium cryptocurrency news and research website, and recently launched version 2 of UX Library, which he is here to discuss with us today. UX Library: https://www.uxlibrary.org/ Zosh's mentors: Justin Mckissick (amazing branding and illustrations): http://justmckissick.com/ https://dribbble.com/justmckissick Chengsu Chen: https://www.chengsuchen.com/ Mihika Shilpi: https://www.behance.net/mihikashilpi Design Agencies Zosh looks up to: Work&Co: https://work.co/ Hello Monday: http://hellomonday.com/ Konrad: https://www.konrad.com/ Find Zosh on zoshuacolah.com and linkedin.com/in/zoshuacolah You can also contact him zcolah@uw.edu.
Derek Fridman, design partner at Work & Co, talks about his background in street art, specifically wheatpasting—poster graffiti applied with a homemade glue made of flour and water. He also talks about a close shave with Lucasfilm, the failings of the InstaPot and how “The Mandalorian” succeeds as episodic, appointment television.
South Korea's Hopes for Unification Hinge on North Korea's Nukes (0:31)Guest: Joon-yong Park, Consul General, Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in San FranciscoNegotiations over North Korea's nuclear weapons have been at a standstill for months. Meanwhile, North Korea has done a series of missile launches and threatened to resume nuclear weapons tests if the US doesn't come back to the negotiating table by the end of the year. How Ageism is Defining the Work Experience for All Generations (16:12)Guest: Robert McCann, Ph.D., Professor of Management Communications, UCLA Anderson School of ManagementLook around the typical office in America and you're likely to see a wide range of ages. The oldest Gen Z-ers now starting out in the workplace. The oldest Millennials are about to turn 40. Gen-Xers are filling out a lot of the management and executive suites alongside Baby Boomers who are delaying retirement in significant numbers. It's a situation ripe for miscommunication and age-discrimination. Co-Housing: Modern-Day Communal Living (34:00)Guest: Karin Hoskin, Executive Director of the Cohousing Association of the US and Resident of Wild Sage, a Co-Housing CommunityNeighbors are a mixed bag for most people. We love ‘em, but man they can get on our nerves when they let their yard get messy or keep their dog outside all night barking. At least you can always put up a fence. We're good at that in America. But some people do the opposite. They create co-housing communities where everyone shares common indoor and outdoor spaces, like kitchens and gardens. Trauma of the Parents (53:42)Guest: Randy Jirtle, Professor of Biology, North Carolina State UniversityDid you know that life experiences of your parents and grandparents may be embedded in your genes? For example, a recent study of Civil War and US Census data found that the sons of soldiers held in particularly harsh prison camps during the war had shorter lives. We're talking about the sons of the soldiers – sons who weren't even alive during the war. How can that be that a father might pass his own emotional or physical trauma down to a child through his genes? (Orginally aired 10/24/19) YouTube and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (1:10:23)Guest: Robbie Bagley, Creator Behind the Channel “Working with Lemons”Kids love YouTube. Everybody knows that –including YouTube, which has spent years telling advertisers it's the go-to site for reaching youngsters. And that's exactly what landed YouTube in deep trouble with federal regulators. There are laws about what kinds of information you can collect on kids under the age of 13 without parental permission. YouTube has not been doing a good job following those laws. So, in September, the company settled with the Federal Trade Commission and New York State for $170 million and promised to change the way it makes money off content targeted at kids. Those changes are causing a big stir among YouTubers who make those videos. Some say their ad revenue will just dry up completely and they'll stop creating content. Is this the end of Kids YouTube? No more videos of people unboxing toys? Or playing with dolls? Or playing Minecraft? Or re-enacting scenes from Disney cartoons? Advocating for Your Child's Literacy Needs (1:28:21)Guest: Rachel Wadham, Host, Worlds Awaiting on BYUradio, Education and Juvenile Collections Librarian, BYU
Joon-yong Park from the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea on the politics of the Korean Peninsula. Robert McCann, UCLA, on ageism in the workplace. Karin Hoskin, Cohousing Association of the US, on modern communal living. Randy Jirtle, North Carolina State University on how trauma is passed through generations. Robbie Bagley, the creator behind the channel “Working With Lemons,” on YouTube COPPA. Rachel Wadham from Worlds Awaiting on advocating for your child’s literacy needs.
Desiree Doubrox has been an entrepreneur since the age of 12, she has always been the founder/owner of her own businesses. With a successful career in real estate since 1989 as a broker, investor and creator of a seminar series entitled “From Babies & Bills to Riches in Real Estate”, Desiree, launched An Empowered Woman in 2007 to support women in starting, fixing and building their businesses. In 2017 she combined her real estate with her women's community to create HomWork. Where you can live where you work. Work where you live. Anywhere in the world. Think AirBnb meets WeWork for women. In this episode, we talk about: How they receive capital for their clients Why are women the go to for their market What types of revenue streams you can create Get your free gift: Power of Seven Video Series - Learn how to monetize your expertise with Content Marketing. http://anempoweredwoman.com/power-of-seven-videos/ To see this program in video on Roku go to RealEstateInvesting4Women.com To watch the EXTRA portion of this show go to RealEstateInvestingForWomenExtra.com ------------------------------------------------------ Learn how to create a consistent income stream by only working 5 hours a month the Blissful Investor Way. Grab my FREE guide at http://www.BlissfulInvestor.com
"Owned By No One - Part 1". I’m just back from the Cannes Lions festival of creativity and recorded some podcasts while I was there. This is the first of them. The topic is the idea of Nils Leonard - founder of Uncommon and a guest on "Fearless” a couple of years ago. Creativity requires risk and uncertainty. Two attributes that the business world has developed powerful resistance to. Want to try something new? In a publicly traded company, you’ve got to convince the c-suite, the board, the analysts and the shareholders. That’s a lot of institutional antibodies. What then of the flip side of ownership? When you own the company yourself? Does that more easily produce the conditions in which creativity and innovation can thrive? In this conversation I’m joined in the Vice Penthouse overlooking the Croisette in Cannes by three people who have previously been guests on ˜Fearless’ - Nils Leonard of Uncommon, Alex Goat of Livityand Mohan Ramaswamy of Work & Co. And by Spencer Baim, who is the Chief Brand Officer of Vice Media.
Fabricio crafts a splendid breakdown of the 7 stages of design craft, highlighting the primary KPIs and action items to help you get to the next stage. About the author: Fabricio Teixeira is a design director at Work & Co based in Brooklyn, NY. Founder of UX Collective. A big believer in user-centered design and knowledge sharing. Learn more about Fabricio at https://fabricio.work/. Original post: http://bit.ly/2V59ICs Blog: https://uxdesign.cc Categories: #career #process Follow Design Standup: LinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/2RcyVYR Facebook: https://bit.ly/2PyzlrL Twitter: https://bit.ly/2QxsEvp Instagram: https://bit.ly/2Vmcdkv Share: Subscribe & listen ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Don't forget to rate & review the show! CC music courtesy of Freesound
Most offices in America are still built by men, for men. Because of this, Tiffany Frye couldn't find any work and childcare arrangement that worked for her. So she built her own. We visit Nido, a workspace in North Carolina that puts the needs of mothers and children first. Episode Sponsor: For $50 off your first box of Green Chef, go to GreenChef.us/doubleshift.
Most offices in America are still built by men, for men. Because of this, Tiffany Frye couldn't find any work and childcare arrangement that worked for her. So she built her own. We visit Nido, a workspace in North Carolina that puts the needs of mothers and children first. If you love the Double Shift Podcast, sign up for our newsletter,https://www.thedoubleshift.com/newsletter ( thedoubleshift.com/newsletter). Consider joining The Double Shift member community, which is a social change laboratory for moms. Learn more here at https://www.thedoubleshift.com/join (thedoubleshift.com/join).
Never let your mental health conditions be a hinder (because they never are) in creating and growing your business! In this episode of the Mental Health Revolution Podcast, Kate interviews Ant Knight, the co-founder of the Mindset Movement. After battling with depression, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Ant was able to get back up and start fulfilling his real mission – to build a community that can help other people succeed. Kate and Ant talk about great strategies that you can do so you don’t let the negative thoughts, the doubts, and your fears affect you. Learn how you could get a healthy and positive mindset in striving towards success when you tune in. KEY TAKEAWAYS Ant Knight started the Mindset Movement to help other people by sharing his stories and experience. He wants to create a group of like-minded people who could guide each other alongside while they’re building their dreams. He has worked for a long time in the corporate setting but decided one day that it’s time for a change. He started to educate himself about property and aimed to be financially independent. Ant has obsessive-compulsive disorder, or also known as OCD. He recalls that things take too long to finish because of obsessions and compulsions. For example, driving to work, taking a shower, or cleaning a room would take very long. He was diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and OCD. He was advised to go through counselling and take medication. He also underwent cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). Self-awareness is the key to suppress all the negative thoughts you’re having. We’re all humans, we’re imperfect, and we make mistakes. Most have experience with broken relationships. Some are fixable while some aren’t and this might severely affect your behaviour and mood. Don’t get it all inside your head; try to speak with somebody else. Change for the better and take control. Do small tasks every day. Get a hobby that will let you clear your mind. And, when you also increase your physical health, the level of your mental health also increases. Ant is passionate about growing his business to reach and help more people. He continues to talk about his condition and his stories. BEST MOMENTS “What you need to be doing with your mental health is to build up good everyday working practices in terms of how you think about things and react to things – that will help you maintain good levels of mental health.” – Kate “Unfortunately, when we go through our bad patches or when we’re not looking after ourselves, everything gets a bit distorted. It’s when things get distorted that things go a bit wrong.” “You just got to get yourself out of bed and get busy.” “It’s really inspiring to get your purpose back, to get your dream back, and have a plan to go forward.” “By gently unpicking the belief that they’re depressed because of a chemical imbalance and actually pressing on the idea that they’re feeling this way because they’re powerless… that triggers a whole lot of thinking styles.” VALUABLE RESOURCES Mindset Movement Day Tickets, Sat 27 Apr 2019 at 10:00 | Eventbrite The Mindset Movement NHS ABOUT THE GUEST Ant Knight is the Co-Founder of the Mindset Movement which helps people have a shift in mindset to increase their chances of success. It is joined by like-minded people who also want to see and help other people succeed. Like The Mindset Movement on Facebook ABOUT THE HOST Kate Ashley-Norman is creator of Positive Mind Management, the host of The Mental Health Revolution podcast, and a passionate speaker and trainer about our emotional wellbeing. She is seeking to change the nature and tone of the conversation around mental health for business owners, their workplaces and ultimately in their personal lives. Kate has spent the last 25+ years running her own businesses, initially working running a six figure PR consultancy agency, then building a multi-million pound international property portfolio. Latterly she has dedicated her time to studying emotional mastery and positive psychology, while bringing up four children, and has used her experience and knowledge to create the Positive Mind Management programme specifically for entrepreneurs and small businesses. The knowledge Kate has collated will help you to not only better understand your emotions, it will help you both improve it, and supercharge it during those more challenging times when emotional wellbeing can be compromised. Fear, procrastination, overwhelm, powerlessness, self worth – empire building is a hugely challenging process in its own right. The more power you hold within your own emotions, the more you can harness the power of those emotions, good and bad, to the benefit of your business and life in general. Hugely practical and applicable, this revolutionary approach to mental health is putting the power back into the hands of each and every individual. CONTACT METHOD You can support The Mental Health Revolution, and contribute to the conversation in the following closed Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/238516643507943/ You can search Kate Ashley-Norman on any of these platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. You can also support the movement through our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=12852819 Kate can be contacted anytime via her email: kateashleynorman@gmail.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Fabricio of UX Collective highlights the importance of owning your own daily experiences, and the normal lifecycle that every new technology product goes through. About the author: Fabricio Teixeira is a design director at Work & Co based in Brooklyn, NY. Founder of UX Collective. A big believer in user-centered design and knowledge sharing. Learn more about Fabricio at https://fabricio.work/. Original posts: https://bit.ly/2RJGPcL https://bit.ly/2NpsDVA Blog: https://uxdesign.cc Categories: #ux #process #career #tech Follow Design Standup: LinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/2RcyVYR Facebook: https://bit.ly/2PyzlrL Twitter: https://bit.ly/2QxsEvp Instagram: https://bit.ly/2Vmcdkv Share: Subscribe & listen ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Don't forget to rate & review the show! CC music courtesy of Freesound
My guest today is Fabricio Teixeira. Fabricio has led design teams at various agencies over the past 15 years; now he's at Work & Co, a digital product design studio based in Brooklyn, NY. I came to know Fabricio because he's one of the founders and publishers of UX Collective, one of the largest design and UX online publications. In this episode, we focus on how Fabricio and his partner Caio Braga make UX Collective happen through mindful information management. Listen to the full conversation https://theinformeddotlife.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/episode-3-fabricio-teixeira.mp3 Show notes Fabricio Teixeira UX Collective Work & Co Feedly Digg Reader (sadly, no longer available) Pocket Buffer If This Then That Getting Things Done Gmail Gmail canned responses Google Sheets Google Tasks Read the full transcript Fabricio: I'm a designer. I've been working on the agency side of things for the last 15 years. I started back in Brazil. Moved to the US, I think, 10 years ago. Lived in Miami New York, San Francisco, and I'm now based in Brooklyn. And as a designer, I'm a more focused on the systematic/functional side of things. And I've always been a maniac when it comes to information organization. So when I heard about your podcast, I was like “this is this is amazing!” I started out as an information architect back in the day, you know, that was a cool name at the time. And to me felt like it was a perfect calling in a way. I've always liked both kind of arts and science, and that whole universe of IA was the best of two worlds for me. So it's kind of bringing it all together. Jorge: I first got to know about you because you are one of the two founders of a publication that has had a lot of visibility online about UX design, right? Fabricio: That's right, UX Collective. Jorge: I had seen your site, and it was very memorable because it used images of polar bears — which I'm very drawn to — and also a very distinctive light blue color. And yeah, so it's very it's got this branding that is very recognizable. And I remember I posted an article on Medium, and you all reached out and asked me to include it in the publication. And that's how I came to be… Well, I had been aware of it before — I recognized it immediately because of the branding — but that's how I came to be more in the loop here. So I'm curious about UX Collective. How does it work? Fabricio: Sure. So we started UX Collective, I think, twelve years ago. Even more, maybe. When I was starting in UX, and I was learning about the topic, there wasn't a lot of information available in Portuguese at the time — my native language — so I had to learn English to be able to read the blogs that were out there like Boxes and Arrows and A List Apart and all that great stuff. And then I started using my blog as a way to translate what I was learning to my fellow Brazilian designers. So it started really as a tool to document some of the things that I was learning through that journey and then, fast forward a couple years, I was doing that more and more often. I was doing that in English now, and Medium came about and suddenly we became the largest design publication on Medium. So you can imagine how much effort that itself takes, to manage a publication. And the goal for UX Collective has always been giving back to the community some of the content that is available online, right? There's a lot of content online, but at the same time that creates a little bit of noise for designers that are starting in the field. So it's a way for us to curate everything that's going on and give back to the community in a more digestible way, I guess. Jorge: Yeah, it's a service that you provide. Right? Fabricio: Right. Yeah. Jorge: So you talked about a few things there that I'm very intrigued by. One was the fact that the original intent behind UX Collective was to bring to the Brazilian community the stuff that was happening elsewhere in the world. Is that right? Fabricio: That's right. Yeah, Jorge: So there was a point where you switched over to English. And you said that you are the largest design publication in Medium and I'm guessing that that would not be the case if it had stayed as a Portuguese publication. So I'm curious about that decision to switch to English. How did it come about? Fabricio: I think it was part of my journey as a designer, right? I moved to the US and English suddenly became my primary language, and all the vocabulary that I was getting and learning and developing as I was working in design was in English. So it felt like almost like a natural process to start shifting to English. We still publish articles in Portuguese as well. I haven't stopped doing that. But it's interesting how English has become my primary professional language while Portuguese is still my primary personal language in a way. Jorge: You live in New York. Do you engage day-to-day with a lot of people in Portuguese? Fabricio: Yeah, there are some Brazilians in our office at Work & Co. So, I get to talk Portuguese at least a little bit every day. But usually the topics we talk about are not exactly work-related, right? Versus English, which is a language I'm using for everything design-related. Jorge: Right. I'm asking you these questions because I'm curious — for obvious reasons, I think — English is also not my native language. And I'm in a very similar situation to you in that I moved to the US and English became my primary language. You talk about this distinction between work and personal stuff, and in the design field, especially, there's a lot of terminology that doesn't easily translate, right? Fabricio: True. Jorge: How do you choose which articles go in Portuguese and which go in English? Fabricio: That's a really good question. All articles work in English, at least they work well for me in English, and then I pick the ones that make more sense to translate to Portuguese based on kind of the zeitgeist of the Brazilian design community and the discussions that I see happening in the level of maturity of the Brazilian industry. So it's kind of a curation in a way as well picking the ones that I think makes sense to translate. There are some things that are maybe too technical or that talk about a certain technology that it's not as popular in Brazil as it is, you know here in the US. So yeah, I follow I usually follow my instincts to decide what to translate, I guess. Jorge: Is it just you or do you have a team working with you? Fabricio: I have a partner, Caio. Also Brazilian. We split our responsibilities on the blog. Jorge: And are you doing the translation yourselves or do you have folks helping with that? Fabricio: No, we are. I'm writing at least one article a week in Portuguese. Jorge: Well, that's amazing. Kudos! So I'm curious… you're running a publication, right? And having been a part of the process from the authoring side, I know that you and Caio have ways of managing this publication and keeping track of what gets published when, I'm guessing. Right? Some kind of editorial schedule? I was hoping that you could tell us about that about the systems and structures that you have in place to help you manage the publication. Fabricio: Yeah, of course. So just for context: It's a lot of stuff; it's a lot of content. We have the Medium publication where we publish I guess around five or six articles every day and to get to those five articles. I have to read through, you know, 15-20 articles every day to decide what gets published. We also have a newsletter that we send every week with the best links of the week. We have our trend report that we launch at the end of the year. We have mentorship sessions that we offer we have to manage our social accounts; Twitter and Linkedin and Facebook. So it's a lot of effort and the interesting part is I have a full-time job. This my side project; my hobby. but I also have a full-time job. I'm a design director at Work & Co. which is a product design studio in Brooklyn. So it's challenging to manage it all at the same time. And the way I like to think about how to manage information, I think there's a term that's stuck in my head right now… information diet, right? I think I read about it on your blog the first time, and since then I really started paying attention, you know to pay more attention to it. It's so important today, being able to manage how much information you consume every day, the same way one would limit their red meat consumption. It's like it's really essential and I feel like. As consumers not only as a blog editor or as a writer. We have reached a point where we are consuming more information every single day than our brains are able to process, you know. We're scrolling through feeds, we're getting hundreds of emails, and we're being stimulated by video audio and notifications. And there's a lot going on, so that certainly starts to affect our overall well-being as humans. So I'm really mindful of balancing my own information diet and especially having the blog and having my full-time job and being exposed to a lot of information every day, the way I try to organize myself when it comes to managing that amount of information. I try to think about it in three different levels. First, it's the intake piece. Right? What's the right of right amount of information to consume and from which sources? This layer is really about preventing the wrong content or distractions from getting to me the first place. I when I say “wrong,” I mean unhelpful content. Then there is like, “cool, the content got to me.” And then there's a second layer of, “how do I organize that content with the information that I do need and that I do want to receive every day?” Which is still a lot. How can I organize myself to distribute that information throughout my day, my week, in different mindsets I'm in. So that's the second layer. And then there's a third layer of, “cool, I have a lot of stuff that I have to put out: tweets and posts and emails.” And so how do I create efficiencies? How do I automate my workflow as much as possible to be able to keep up with all this all these side projects at the same time. So yeah, that's how my brain kind of breaks down that challenge: intake, organization, and then automation. And then of coursem for each of these layers, I have specific tools that I use and specific mechanisms that have been successful or not as successful. Jorge: That's fantastic. It's a really clear way of thinking about it. Can you share with us one tool each for these layers? The ones that you feel are most important? Fabricio: Yeah. The first one is the intake of information. So this is really about curation tools. You're probably similar to me Jorge, but I've been building an RSS feed. I don't know if you use Google Reader… not Google Reader, but Feedly, or Digg Reader, or one of those RSS services. So I've been building that list over the years. That's my primary source of information. Every time I find a reliable blog or site or something, I add that feed to my to my reader. And then I try to balance that with Twitter, which adds to that serendipity aspect of, “let's just follow a few random folks here and see what they're up to you and see what they're talking about.” That way, I'm balancing heavy reading and design-related content versus random topics like culture and politics that people are talking about on Twitter. One thing I try to do — kind of a hack that I that I've been doing the last couple years — is just to silence my phone as much as possible. Sometimes it's not about too much information, but it's about information trying to get to you too many times throughout the day, if that makes sense. I think five years ago I redesigned my phone experience to turn off all notifications except for one or two apps, removed the number of icons that I have on my home screen so there's not a lot of visual clutter and information every time I unlock my phone. Removing all those red badges from the app icon, so there's no anxiety or tapping them and opening them. So in a way, it's almost like I designed my technology experience so that it doesn't get in the way of the actual information I want to get access to, if that makes any sense. Jorge: It sounds like you're configuring your environment so that you can be more in control of your attention, right? Fabricio: That's right. Yeah, and that's not only around technology. Of course, technology plays an important role there, but being mindful of my surroundings… I always try to keep the books from authors that I admire next to my desk. So I'm always surrounded by that feeling of… It's hard to describe, but even my apartment walls are a hundred percent white; there's no paintings or anything. My desk has as few objects as possible. As a designer, I'm making sure that I'm designing the space around me to avoid too much cognitive load throughout the day. Jorge: The degree to which our environments and the busyness of the environment impinges upon your ability to be effective. Right? Fabricio: It's really hard to measure. It's not a quantity, right? It's hard to measure the return over investment over those things because ultimately it's really qualitative. It's really about feeling lighter at the end of the day. I guess that's my KPI, ultimately. Jorge: I'm wanting to dig a little bit more into the inputs through RSS and Twitter. That sounds very similar to the way that I get my information. And it can be a fire hose, right? Even with RSS like you said. Well, you see something interesting you have to feed to your RSS. There comes a point where there's a lot coming through; I'm wondering what the mechanics are behind saying, “this is one that I need to follow up on.” How do you keep track of that? Fabricio: I usually pick the ones that I'm not going to find… the type of content that I'm not going to find anywhere else, right? Because there's tech news and there's design news. If you open ten different blogs, they're all going to be talking about the same thing. Right? So I know that eventually, I'm going to stumble upon that news or someone going to talk about the latest iPhone or the latest design tool at work or in other places. So I try to curate my feeds to the sources to the type of content. I'm not going to find anywhere else and then what I do is every time I feel that. Oh, there's that's too much content because I'm the feed zero inbox zero type of person. I like to go through everything that I have, but it starts to get overwhelming at some point. So every end of the year, I stop and look back at my feed. I do that across the board. I look at my wardrobe, and I donate things that I'm not using; not wearing. But I also do that on my feeds. I look at my feeds, and I'm like, “well, I haven't really gotten anything super relevant from this blog or from this website.” So once a year I make sure I clean up my sources, so I'm not spending too much time on Feedly every day. Jorge: You publish on UX Collective an end-of-year review of the UX design field that spots patterns and tries to surface the things that you are seeing as being worthy of our attention. And this is getting into your second step which has to do with organizing content. Right? I'm curious how you take that fire hose of content and then start spotting patterns that you will then raise to our attention through UX Collective. Fabricio: Yeah. So for that second layer, I feel like I have too many tools and hacks that I use some of them are pretty embarrassing. So maybe I'll share the most important ones. So I use a lot of Gmail labels to be able to control all the information that gets to me all the emails and messages that I get. I also use Pocket, the Chrome extension, to save the most exciting and interesting articles. And then I have a whole tagging system. If I tag a certain article as newsletter, it then saves that article to a Google spreadsheet that I can open every weekend to curate the links that I'm going to include in my weekly newsletter. If I tag an article — I forgot the specific tag — but it's almost like if each different tag drives that article to a different workflow. If I tag an article “Twitter,” it automatically schedules a tweet with that link using Buffer, which is another management tool that I have. So I've built a system around how to navigate that information and all those links. And then at the end of the year, there's also a tag for that. Usually, Caio and I go back to our bookmarks and to what we feel were the most relevant topics that year, and then we start trying to find patterns: “Okay, what are the 10 biggest topics that the UI and design community talked about this year?” So there's a lot of automation and tools going on. Jorge: To be clear, you are doing the tagging in Pocket. Is that right? Fabricio: I am. So I'm saving all the links in Pocket. I'm tagging in Pocket. Then I'm setting up some If This Then That bots to then connect those Pocket links to other services that I use like Buffer, Google Drive, Dropbox, Google Tasks, right? But everything starts from Pocket. Jorge: Yeah, it sounds like Pocket is the collection bucket where everything goes in. Fabricio: Yeah. Jorge: Are you doing the tagging the moment that you save the link, or do you go back? Fabricio: I read an article and I'm like, “well, this would be a good tweet,” so I tag “tweet.” “This would be a great fit for the newsletter,” so I tag “newsletter,” right? So my brain is processing, knowing all the different contexts in which that article, post, whatever can be used. My brain is kind of making the… Almost like the mental mapping of where this could go. Jorge: You mentioned Google Tasks in there, what role does Google Tasks play? Fabricio: Oh, it's embarrassing. It's my brain. It's where I put all my to-do items. Like everything that I have to do, I save there, which is interesting. I mean, it's going to be silly, but even like getting a haircut is there every two weeks, three weeks. It's about habit-forming. So now I have this instinct that every time I think, “oh, yeah, I have to do that!,” my brain immediately connects to Google Tasks. So I open Google Tasks, and I write down whatever I have to do there. And then I can pick a specific date or due date, or I can make it recurring or not recurring. That's where I outsource a lot of my brain power my memory power, especially. Jorge: I don't think it's embarrassing at all. In fact, I think it corresponds to the drive you were describing earlier to create a physical environment that respects your attention. Fabricio: That's right. Jorge: Are you familiar with the work of David Allen? Fabricio: I'm not, no. Jorge: Getting Things Done? Fabricio: Oh, okay. I've seen something. Jorge: So in the Getting Things Done methodology or approach one of the things that Mr. Allen talks about is getting the tasks that you have to do out of your head and onto lists. Fabricio: Yeah. Jorge: And he uses this martial arts metaphor. He says, you want to have “mind like water” — where your mind is still, right? And you're not troubled by all this stuff rattling around in your head. And I think that that's a similar drive to what you were describing with the white walls in your apartment. Fabricio: Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah. It's about having peace of mind so that I can focus on the right things throughout the day. Jorge: Great. So there's a third layer to this which is sharing the information back. And I'm particularly curious about how you and Caio collaborate on things like that end-of-year report. Fabricio: Yeah, not only the report, but also we get like 25 or 30 emails every day from authors; Medium writers submitting or pitching an article idea for UX Collective. So, that itself is a lot of work, and I'm so thankful to Caio for helping me manage that. We have a shared email address that is the blog's email address, and we are CC'ed on every exchange so we know the emails that the other person has responded or not. That helps a lot. We also have Gmail response template. I think they're called “canned responses” and that helps a lot, right? Because we have a response for, “Great, your article is approved! Here are the next steps.” We have a template for, “Well this article is not a good fit for reasons X, Y, & Z.” So there's a bunch of different templates we've created over the years, and that helps a lot because it takes away 95% of the work so we can focus on the more custom messages and the more custom article editing for specific articles. And then, the other tool in the third layer of putting content out that I use a lot is Buffer. I think I mentioned it briefly. It's this social media scheduling tool. I have my Twitter, I have the blog's Twitter, I have LinkedIn and Facebook and all the different social channels that I'm posting every day. But at the same time, I have a full-time job to keep up with, so I'm essentially pre-scheduling all the posts once a week, usually over the weekend. And then what it does is that it randomizes the times where it tweets something or where we post to LinkedIn something, and that helps a lot. Jorge: It sounds like you have built yourself a system that allows two people to really do a lot, right? Fabricio: Yeah. Jorge: What about the writing itself? Are you doing that directly on Medium or does it start somewhere else? Fabricio: That's usually on Medium. Yeah. I haven't found a way to automate that piece. So this is about really blocking some time, usually every Saturday morning for two or three hours. Sitting down with a good cup of coffee in silence and just writing. I usually use Medium for that because I love the interface and how simple it is. I'm usually writing two articles every week. Jorge: I'm tremendously impressed by the system that you have described, and I'm wondering what aspects of it are not working as well as you would like. Can you tell us about a time when the system failed? Fabricio: It fails quite often, but it's never a big fail. There are a couple of instances where maybe Caio and I respond to the same email because we forgot to CC our shared email address. There are little things like that. But it's not a problem because both of us are usually very aligned in terms of our editorial guidelines. So it's usually the same response that we sent to the author. Stepping back a little bit, what I consider a fail in this whole system is when I feel like I'm using too much time to do something that I could be automating more. This whole system is created around giving myself time. I feel like time is our most precious resource. It's not money; it's time. So, every couple of months I have this feeling that “oh my God, I'm spending like one hour every day to manage the blog. That's a lot of time!” You know, I want to use this time to spend with my family, with my friends, or just keeping my brain idle, or play video games, or whatever. So that's why I feel like the system is failing me: when all these tools and mechanisms are starting to take too much time. So then, when I see that's happening, what I usually do is I start to rethink how I'm spending each hour of my day. Take a look at my daily and weekly tasks to see if there's any opportunity to automate some of that work. Take a look at all at all the initiatives and all the commitments that I have running in parallel or the side projects to see if there's anything I need to stop doing. And that's usually when the cost-benefit is not as great as you used to be when I started that project. So I feel like every three to six months that's system starts to fail and then I have to take action to quickly recover from there. Jorge: Thank you so much, Fabricio. I think this is a good place to end it: on time. I am thankful for yours — for having shared your time with us. I'm very impressed and congratulate you on what you and Caio have built. Fabricio: Thank you for inviting me. And congratulations to you as well. I'm impressed with how you're able to keep up with your blog and how you're able to put out at least an article every day. I'm a big fan; a big follower. So here's a suggestion: you should do an episode talking about your own tools as well. Jorge: Interesting. We might do another one where we turn the tables. That will come in the future sometime. So tell the folks where they can find you and read more about your work. Fabricio: It's essentially at the UX Collective; that URL is uxdesign.cc. And our main project right now is our newsletter that we send out every week and you can access that on newsletter.uxdesign.cc. Jorge: Thank you so Fabricio, this has been great.
Fabricio and Caio highlight the current landscape of the UX industry, from the tools we use, the methods we apply every day, the technologies we design around, and much more. About the authors: Fabricio Teixeira is a design director at Work & Co based in Brooklyn, NY. Founder of UX Collective. A big believer in user-centered design and knowledge sharing. Learn more about Fabricio at https://uxdesign.cc/@fabriciot. Caio Braga is a UX designer & editor at https://uxdesign.cc. Learn more about Caio at https://medium.com/@caioab. Original post: https://trends.uxdesign.cc/ Blog: https://uxdesign.cc Categories: #ux #ui #career #process #motion #tools Follow Design Standup: LinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/2RcyVYR Facebook: https://bit.ly/2PyzlrL Twitter: https://bit.ly/2QxsEvp Instagram: https://bit.ly/2Vmcdkv Share: Subscribe & listen ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Don't forget to rate & review the show! CC music courtesy of Freesound
Fabricio and Caio highlight the current landscape of the UX industry, from the tools we use, the methods we apply every day, the technologies we design around, and much more. About the authors: Fabricio Teixeira is a design director at Work & Co based in Brooklyn, NY. Founder of UX Collective. A big believer in user-centered design and knowledge sharing. Learn more about Fabricio at https://uxdesign.cc/@fabriciot. Caio Braga is a UX designer & editor at https://uxdesign.cc. Learn more about Caio at https://medium.com/@caioab. Original post: https://trends.uxdesign.cc/ Blog: https://uxdesign.cc Categories: #ux #ui #career #process #motion #tools Follow Design Standup: LinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/2RcyVYR Facebook: https://bit.ly/2PyzlrL Twitter: https://bit.ly/2QxsEvp Instagram: https://bit.ly/2Vmcdkv Share: Subscribe & listen ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Don't forget to rate & review the show! CC music courtesy of Freesound
Fabricio and Caio highlight the current landscape of the UX industry, from the tools we use, the methods we apply every day, the technologies we design around, and much more. About the authors: Fabricio Teixeira is a design director at Work & Co based in Brooklyn, NY. Founder of UX Collective. A big believer in user-centered design and knowledge sharing. Learn more about Fabricio at https://uxdesign.cc/@fabriciot. Caio Braga is a UX designer & editor at https://uxdesign.cc. Learn more about Caio at https://medium.com/@caioab. Original post: https://trends.uxdesign.cc/ Blog: https://uxdesign.cc Categories: #ux #ui #career #process #motion #tools Follow Design Standup: LinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/2RcyVYR Facebook: https://bit.ly/2PyzlrL Twitter: https://bit.ly/2QxsEvp Instagram: https://bit.ly/2Vmcdkv Share: Subscribe & listen ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Don't forget to rate & review the show! CC music courtesy of Freesound
Fabricio makes some great points on following through with your design work, and also easing your anxiety about trying to know everything in the UX field. About the author: Fabricio Teixeira is a design director at Work & Co based in Brooklyn, NY. Founder of UX Collective. A big believer in user-centered design and knowledge sharing. Learn more about Fabricio at https://uxdesign.cc/@fabriciot. Slack channels: #ux #career Follow Design Standup: LinkedIn Group: https://bit.ly/2RcyVYR Facebook: https://bit.ly/2PyzlrL Twitter: https://bit.ly/2QxsEvp Instagram: https://bit.ly/2Vmcdkv Share: Subscribe & listen ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Don't forget to rate & review the show! CC music courtesy of Freesound
'The One-of-Many Leader'. This is my conversation with Mohan Ramaswamy - one of the partners of Work & Co. Mohan and I recorded this conversation at the Cannes Creativity Festival in June. Work and Co is unusual because they have 14 partners - all of whom are involved in all the major decisions of the company. For a business whose reputation and success has grown rapidly, that kind of community leadership is rare.
Juliana Gaiba é designer e trabalha com produtos digitais. Já passou por consultorias, agências, P&D e empresas (de startups a multinacionais). Morou e trabalhou por 3 anos em Madrid e hoje integra o time de Design da Work & Co, em NY. Hosted by @all_lucca
Hugo vem de uma pequena cidade chamada Campo Mourão, no norte do Paraná, se mudou para Curitiba e atualmente se encontra em NY onde trabalha como Designer na Work & Co. Hosted by @all_lucca
Digital strategist Mohan Ramaswamy is a partner at Work & Co, a digital design agency based in Brooklyn, New York. His team is responsible for Virgin America's responsive website (a favorite of Erik's!). In this episode, Erik and Mohan discuss their most transformative digital experiences, why focusing on your most heavily used website pages is critical, and how to collaborate to get the best product when working with an outside partner.
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