The Intersection
The way we work, grow, and succeed is changing. I’m here to explore what that means for you and your company. This blog is a collection of insights, strategies, and reflections designed to help individuals take ownership of their career and life and help companies create a space where team members thrive.
I pull from books, podcasts, research, and personal experiences to uncover practical ways to stabilize, grow, and thrive in today’s evolving world. If you’re looking to create a stronger, more sustainable foundation for your career or the company you are part of, this is the place.
Let’s build something great—together!
A Lesson from Maya Angelou
This week, we’ve talked a lot about creativity. We covered barriers to creativity, the cluttered mind, identifying your creative type, and the balance of discipline and distraction. The last post of the series will build on the theme of distraction we discussed...
The Delicate Balance of Creativity
This week we continue to explore creativity and the ways in which we can foster our creative thinking. There seems to be a delicate balance between discipline and discovery. The discipline is to create even during times that ideas aren’t naturally flowing....
Finding Your Creative Type
As we reviewed in Monday’s post, many people do not think of themselves as creative. The incorrect assumption is that if you aren’t an “artist” or in a “creative job/department”, you aren’t creative. Studies have shown that our creativity peaks when we are under...
Clutter and Creativity
When it comes to creativity, there are mixed messages on mental clutter. On the one hand, a mind cluttered with many experiences and different pieces of knowledge can leverage the information to make new connections and spark creativity. On the other hand, a mind...
The Era of Creativity
There has been a lot written in the past 2-3 years about a move from the Information Era to the Era of Creativity. Businesses will survive by continuing to innovate and develop creative ideas. In fact, the World Economic forum identified that creativity is or is...
Who Cares?
A few weeks ago, there was an Everyday Style Guide podcast episode titled “How to Trust your Gut When it Comes to Style” that really connected with me. I appreciated the literal message that Jennifer provided and saw how this concept could be applied to other areas of...
Who’s Really Holding You Back?
We all have goals. Become a writer. Lose weight. Get a promotion. Be more organized. Improve a relationship with a co-worker. The list is endless. Most goals we set are within reach. Yet, we struggle to make them happen. Why do we self-sabotage...
Self-Help: Two Sides to Personal Development
I’ve spent a lot of time struggling with the fact that personal development tends to fall into the category of “self-help”. Today, I did some research, dug under the surface, and came to some conclusions about the genre. Rooted in HELP The source of my challenge with...
Effortless Highlights
Last week, The Next Big Idea Daily podcast (S4; E1-5) focused on Greg McKeown and his book Effortless. Each day, there was a lesson from the book and then a conversation between Greg and host Michael Kovnat. The week was full of interesting ideas and...
Mise en Place
Mise en place is a French phrase used by chefs in professional kitchens. This statement means “putting things in place” or “gathering”. The idea is that when you do a proper setup before cooking, the kitchen will run more smoothly, keep things in order,...
Multi-Tasking Benefit
This week has been focused on the benefits of not multi-tasking. We covered why shift to single tasking to improve focus and productivity. We reviewed how task batching and time blocking could help with single tasking. Then, we looked at how those strategies might...
Productivity in 25 Minutes
The Pomodoro technique is a productivity approach that suggests you focus on a single project for 25 minutes and then take a break for 5 minutes. After four 25-minute segments, you take a longer 15-minute break. There are many advantages to this technique. You...
Batching and Blocking for Leaders
Yesterday, I wrote about the concepts of task batching (combining similar activities) and time blocking (putting time on your calendar for individual work). Both of these practices can be beneficial for anyone at work and at home. Thinking deeper about this, I...
Batching and Blocking
Yesterday, we discussed the advantage of single tasking over multi-tasking enabling you to completely focus on the task at hand. Today, we’ll focus on two techniques – Task Batching and Time Blocking – that can make single tasking even more effective. Below is...
Shifting to Single Tasking
Ten to fifteen years ago, multi-tasking was a part of many conversations on how to be more productive. Making calls while driving. Answering emails while in a meeting. Dealing with text messages while working on a presentation. Watching TV while playing with...