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Co-Founders: Table for Three Please
MARCH 9, 2023
Don’t let the urgency of now fool you into thinking the relationship with your co-founder can wait. Taking the time to intentionally design your partnership with your co-founder up front will pay dividends for years to come.
When Leadership Means Not Getting Promoted
JANUARY 28, 2020
Sometimes leadership means taking a good, hard look at personal goals and often putting those goals on the shelf for the sake of the team.
3 Steps to Get and Learn From Critical Feedback
JUNE 25, 2019
While the idea of seeking out feedback can be terrifying at first, when done with intention and skill, it is actually life-giving. It’s how we grow, innovate, and thrive. Without it, we question what others think, live in fear of what others might be thinking, and create all types of simple stories of how others experience us.
Frameworked to Death: Care Personally, Challenge Directly, But Please, Deliver Authentically
MAY 13, 2019
Frameworks are fabulous mechanisms for getting us comfortable having tough conversations. They teach us how to build the muscle needed to connect with the people around us, and without them, we often won’t have the conversation at all. But be careful of losing yourself in their nuance and structure.
WillowTree Case Study: Partnering to Build a Sustainable Leadership Development Program
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
In early 2018, WillowTree, a digital innovation agency based in Charlottesville, VA began asking: How can we maintain our culture and our core values as we continue to expand? Partnering with Launch Project, WillowTree realized that to sustain and evolve its culture, it needed to invest in its high potential leaders.
Why Listening is Crucial to Product – and How to do it Better
JANUARY 31, 2019
Nothing has been more important in both product management and coaching than one’s ability to listen deeply. I only wish that as a product manager I’d had as deep an understanding of what listening is as I do now.
6 Ways to Embrace Your Love/Hate Relationship With Feedback
DECEMBER 5, 2018
Feedback—criticism and praise—is correlated with higher job satisfaction, more creativity, faster adaptation, and lower turnover. But feedback has a shadow side. It can lead us to reject our own truths and values because we fixate on what others think.
Everything You Need to Know About Coaching
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
It seems like everyone has a coach, is a coach, or knows a coach. But very few people can actually explain what coaching is, why to work with a coach, or how it really works. Here is probably way more than you ever wanted to know about coaching.
How to Create a Feedback Culture
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
Most organizations strive for a culture of feedback. Most fail. Here’s one way to move the needle.
Strengths-Based Leadership: Four Ways to Tune into What You Do Well
AUGUST 29, 2018
When you focus on your strengths, you are more productive, efficient, and fulfilled. Organizations that support employees in leaning into their strengths have increases in employee engagement, which ultimately leads to higher profitability, lower turnover, and greater customer satisfaction.
Ten Lessons of a Solopreneur
JUNE 1, 2018
Happy Birthday Launch Project! In honor of an amazing year of ups, downs, failures, and wins, here are ten lessons of a solopreneur’s journey.
Care, But Don't Care Too Much: Three Ways to Let It Go
MAY 8, 2018
Where do you care? Where do you care too much? Gain three strategies for letting go when you need to and caring when it's most important.
'Niksen' Is the Dutch Solution for a Guilt-Free Break
MARCH 6, 2018
Are your days spent moving from one activity to the next, checking boxes off your list, and cultivating a sense of accomplishment as you exercise my productivity muscle? Mine were (and sometimes still are). And then I wondered, how is all this human doing contributing to my human being?
How to Open Yourself Up to Feedback
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
Sometimes the only way to get perspective about what needs to change comes from an outside perspective. And turns out that when you ask the people around you where you can grow, their ideas might be a little different than your own.
The Best Goals Start With Why
JANUARY 23, 2018
When you surface the meaning behind your goal and give it a voice, a simple goal shifts into a mission. Follow these five steps to create goals that start with why and end with success.
Coaching: As Explained By Bitmoji
JANUARY 12, 2018
Coaching is hard to explain, and as coaches, we often say that coaching is best experienced. But that's because you've never heard coaching, as explained by a Bitmoji.
How to Drastically Transform Your Work Relationships
NOVEMBER 28, 2017
Creating meaningful relationships with the people you work with doesn’t have to be super time consuming, and in the end, it will actually save you time. The better you know your colleagues and what motivates them, the easier it will be to communicate, motivate, and GSD. Given that we spend most of our waking hours in the office, isn't’ that a good thing?
How We Win When We Fail Big on Purpose
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
The learning that comes from failing big defines who we are and gives voice to our purpose.
Why Crying at Work Won’t Destroy Your Career
AUGUST 29, 2017
Emotions are part of the human experience—and we can’t pretend that the human experience ends when we open the office door.
Three Ways to Get the Most Out of Coaching
AUGUST 15, 2017
Change takes getting uncomfortable and digging deep. It takes honesty — with your coach and with yourself. And sometimes, it takes good old-fashioned homework. A coach cannot change your life for you. What they can do is help you create a plan to change your own life.