I’m not a lawyer, and this isn’t legal advice, BUT: daaaang y’all, this morning’s YW Boston webinar on “Navigating DEI Challenges: Legal Insights for Moving Forward in the Face of Resistance” was fricking FIIIIIIRE. Sharing my quick takeaways here because I’m involved with at least 3 organizations that need this info and I bet you […]
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou That quote is why for today’s team retreat I baked blueberry muffins, brought in my Instant Pot and cooked a mole-style chicken buffet right there in the conference room, and […]
If you like futzing around with your phone as much as I do, you’ll love this: last week, the entire SCG team learned from experts Alan Kwok and Ana-Marie Jones how to spend a couple hours turning our smartphones into powerful tools for emergency preparedness… or as Ana-Marie calls it, “how to walk this world […]
Team retreat time again! Our theme was “Seeing the Future”, so we walked through a portal of black veils to enter Madame Essie Gee’s Psychic Emporium, aka the SCG conference room. Turns out crystal balls, tea leaves, Magic 8 Ball, and other mystical prognosticators from the dollar store don’t actually work… but fun, food, trust, […]
Why am I here? I mean, obviously I’m here on Cape Cod because it’s so beautiful; can you believe this glorious sunset? (#nofilter!) And obviously because it’s a joy to be with three generations of my family in the place that Childhood Me spent all year looking forward to going for two weeks every summer […]
Yay holidays mean it’s time for another themed party at work! The whole staff asked me to be in charge of decorations for our celebration to make it fun and festive for everyone… on the usual shoestring budget. Result: “New Leaf” theme, in honor of having a big year ahead with several new team members […]
Oh hi, sorry I’m breezing into work an hour late, but I had to take a lil time to throw out at least $75 of perishable food from my fridge since the power was out for more than 8 hours last night. Yeah no worries, my pay doesn’t get docked, I don’t get fired, I’ll […]
Quarterly retreat for my team yesterday on Nov. 6, 2018, and how could I have a theme of anything but #ElectionDay? Sorry the pic doesn’t capture scent of crescent roll wrapped hot dogs in the toaster oven. Sugar rush from red white and blue cupcakes powered us through important 2019 planning. And yeah, there was definitely […]
Summer Picnic team retreat! Borrowed our office’s fake trees for dressing up conference stages, draped the tables and chairs in “wood,” and loaded up the side table with fruit, cold cuts, potato chips, pies, and old-fashioned sodas. Everyone got a dollar-store flower pen and notebook re-covered in woodgrain shelf paper. Plus plastic bugs on the […]
Homemade scones, mismatched cups and broken clocks from Goodwill, plastic roses and foofy pens from dollar store, stacks and stacks of my beloved childhood books… and a packed agenda which my brilliant staff co-led to successful completion. Another happy and productive quarterly themed retreat!