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by Rikki Goldenberg

Subscribe to the Learn Something New(sletter) and you'll receive actionable, practical tips right in your inbox to try on a new personal or professional development concept. It's going to be fun. A former design researcher/strategist/consultant turned executive leadership and career coach, now I partner with badass folks to reorient their relationship with work and hang out on the edge of growth while they sort out what they want, and what they need.

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How to level-up and get more done (and no, we're not waking up at 5am)

Here we are! Another edition of the Learn Something New(sletter)! Did I ever tell you how much I frikkin love these? It’s a wild amount of effort to research new topics and theories, reflect, and bring forward my favorite learnings that you can apply right now to your (work) life. Taking a moment for gratitude that it’s been such a pleasure to share this stuff with you. I love to nerd out on it! Enough being a mush, let’s get on with it. I first heard about Who Not How from Leah Gooch who...

about 1 year ago • 3 min read

Helloooo! I was on a coaching call the other day and my client was reminiscing about a direct report shifting into their first time leading a program. They had asked them, “what’s the most important thing to first establish yourself as a leader?” Their report shared all kinds of thoughts: clear communication, executive presence, a shared vision, delivering feedback consistently, creating a space of psychological safety…” Great answers, right? Big red buzzer sound. The first thing? Handle your...

about 1 year ago • 2 min read

Hello Friends!January is coming in hot, and already my social media feeds are filled with Team Look at Me Doing my Resolutions versus Team Resolutions are Bad and Evil. And a fun third category of folks who have suddenly gone silent about their hefty list of resolutions. It happens y'all.Personally, I don't do resolutions, I focus on the habits I want to build that support my desires. And, I don't wait until January to do some goal-setting. I wouldn't get a lot done in October. But something...

over 1 year ago • 3 min read

We’re going deeeeeep friends. And by deep, I mean “Deep Work” by Cal Newport. Full disclosure: the first time I read this book I lost my cool because almost *every single* example of someone crushing “deep work” was male. There were studies led by women, but, really only one (maybe two) examples of women who were crushing deep work. I’m still pretty ragey about it. So I read it again. (I’m a glutton for rage-reads. Don’t you remember the 48 Laws of Power when we learned how to form a cult?!...

over 1 year ago • 3 min read

Oh hello! Performance Reviews are awful. I hate them so much. Just me? And now it’s that moment in the year when performance reviews suddenly emerge from the abyss like the loch ness monster. Whether you’re a manager of a team of 12 (oh goodness) or handling 10 peer reviews, this time of year is exhausting. Maybe you’re the lucky few that only have to do annual reviews. But that means come November you’re going to be rushing out the door for the holidays while scrambling to finish up the...

almost 2 years ago • 1 min read

Hey All. Your next newsletter wasn't supposed to come for another two weeks on The Burnout Epidemic by Jennifer Moss. That'll still happen - but for this week, I'm pulling out one learning from it.We're going to talk about gratitude.Gratitude. It feels weird to try to be grateful about anything, between the war in Ukraine, the war on Tigray, AAPI hate, a pandemic that isn't going anywhere... It is a lot to carry on as human beings. So what can we do, when we feel overwhelmed, stuck, and...

about 2 years ago • 1 min read

Hello There! Manifesting, the act of “focusing on what you desire, and attracting it through what you think, say, and do” (Psychology Today) is all the rage. Less interested in if it works, manifesting is more about how it makes you feel. If feeling your way to becoming a millionaire isn’t the thing for you - there’s a very cool, very easy and more effective approach. And it still feels a bit like daydreaming 💡 Biggest whoa moment: That this actually works. Gabriele Oettingen, a psychology...

over 2 years ago • 1 min read
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