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Oct 11, 2020

Welcome to another edition of ProductiveGrowth 🌱, weekly stories about productivity, leadership, motivation, and anything else that helps us and our teams grow and be more productive. Plus: industry news on the companies, products, and services that allow us to work less and do more.

The Takeaway!

Hey, thanks for coming back! This week, I’m focused on developing some abilities for our jobs and our lives: whether it is to talk positively about yourself, tracking down tasks, doing things you don’t like, or just thinking about life. Take a moment to take that next step that will keep you on your path.

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EDITOR’S PICK

🐦 Feeling like the prophet of doom?

If an important part of your job is to deliver bad news, you might feel like the entire office avoids you at lunch. Trying to paint bad news as a positive thing is not the answer, Amii Barnard-Bahn might have a tip or two to make it less horrible.

🔫 Bullet journals, a way to shoot your tasks goodbye.

When it comes to being productive, you need tools to be at your best. If not set up right they won’t get you to be productive. Bullet journals help you track the past, organize the present, and plan for the future. Who knows? They might work for you!

💁 Talk about yourself, even to you

Has your boss ever asked you what you’ve done last week and had a hard time remembering? Need to remember the last 6 months? It’s really hard for people to keep track of what they do. Whether it is for morale, performance reviews, or reflecting on what you’ve done, write a brag document and encourage your teammates to do it too! It feels amazing!

⭐ “Find a way to get in trouble, good trouble, necessary trouble"

John Lewis was one of the most inspiring and influential minds of our generation, shaping the way our society is today. These are his four pillars of leadership, where love is the north star, and disrupting is a must.

DISCOVER

Since the pandemic hit, productivity has become even harder at everyone's home/office. The “Freedom” App helps you achieve new levels of efficiency by blocking some sites by the hour. It makes you free of any distractions and unleashes your productivity. Read the full review.

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IN THE KNOW

Industry news on the companies, products, and services that allow us to work less and do more.

Sales, IPOs, Bankruptcies, Funding and Industry Gossip

Roam, the note-taking tool software raises $9 million to reach a valuation of $200 million.
Airtable raised $185 million in Series D funding round, now valued at $2.585 billion.

Releases

Windows 10 is testing a Skype 'Meet Now' taskbar feature.
Audio, stories, verified channels, and more new features coming to Slack.

Jobs

Zapier - Remote - Customer Solutions Specialist
RingCentral - Denver, CO - Global Enterprise Engineer.
Woven - Mountain View, CA - Sr. Product Designer - UI-UX.

Events

October 12 (virtual) - Future of Work 2020 by Chatham House
October 14 (virtual) - Leadership in the Time of Crisis by MIT.
October 28 (virtual) - Courageous leadership. Express leadership summit by Express Employment Professionals.
Nov 4th and 5th (virtual) - Leadership Pathways: Management and leadership foundations workshop by Liquid Learning.
Nov 11th (virtual) - Feeling Like a Fraud: Navigating Perfectionism & Impostor Syndrome as Women

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Edited by: Lauren Maslen.

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