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We hear this one a lot, usually from someone who's just promoted their best worker and is watching it go badly. It's rar...
09/25/2026

We hear this one a lot, usually from someone who's just promoted their best worker and is watching it go badly.

It's rarely the person's fault. They were promoted for being good at the work, and the new job is a different job. Running a one-to-one. Telling someone their output isn't good enough without wrecking the relationship. Passing on a decision they didn't agree with and can't say so.

Nobody taught them any of that. We promoted them and hoped.
From the other side, the same situation sounds like this: "I feel unprepared to guide others. What if I let them down?"

Two people, both worried, usually not talking to each other about it.
The gap between doing the work and leading the work is real, and it's teachable. Wednesday, where to start.

Send this to someone who's just been promoted.

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Someone in a decision-making role said a version of this to us: past training felt too theoretical, and they couldn't po...
09/23/2026

Someone in a decision-making role said a version of this to us: past training felt too theoretical, and they couldn't point to anything that changed afterwards.

That's a fair complaint and it's common. A good day out, everyone enjoys it, and three weeks later the same patterns are back because nothing around them moved.
We build for the opposite. Sessions shaped around what your team is actually dealing with, using their real situations rather than case studies about a made-up company.

People leave with language they can use in the meeting that afternoon.
If you've been burned by training that didn't stick and you're wary of booking more, that's a reasonable place to start a conversation from. Tell us what went wrong last time.

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Most teams are drafting with AI now, whatever the official line is. That's fine. The risk isn't the drafting. It's sendi...
09/21/2026

Most teams are drafting with AI now, whatever the official line is.
That's fine. The risk isn't the drafting. It's sending something without once reading it as the person who's about to receive it.

Three checks. Thirty seconds.

Save this and use it before your next send.

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The tools got good at producing things. Emails, summaries, reports, a first draft of almost anything. What they can't do...
09/18/2026

The tools got good at producing things. Emails, summaries, reports, a first draft of almost anything. What they can't do is read the room.

They don't know this funder needs the bad news handled gently. That this person is already stretched and a blunt message will land badly. That the last three emails on the thread have quietly got sharper and someone needs to pick up the phone.

That judgment comes from knowing people and having been around long enough to feel when something's about to go sideways. We work with organisations where AI now handles a good chunk of the drafting. The ones doing well with it got clearer about which calls stay with a person. The tool speeds up the writing. Somebody still has to own the decision.

Coming Wednesday, something practical.

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"Books and theory help a bit, but I need real practice."Somebody said that to us and it stuck, because it's the honest v...
09/16/2026

"Books and theory help a bit, but I need real practice."

Somebody said that to us and it stuck, because it's the honest version of what most people feel. We know what good communication looks like on paper. The trouble starts when it's live, the other person isn't reacting the way you expected, and you've got about two seconds to decide what to say.

That's what the Communication Circle is for. Once a month, a small group, facilitated by Rochelle Punit. A space to work through the moments that
actually, shape your week. The ones where you froze. The ones you're still putting off.

No certification. No program. Just practice, with people who take their work seriously.

Visit https://www.one1000.ca/ for more info.

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Friday, we looked at the gap between what leaders think they've communicated and what their teams actually received. Thi...
09/14/2026

Friday, we looked at the gap between what leaders think they've communicated and what their teams actually received.

This is what closes it. Five steps, in order. Works for AI, restructures, funding news, new systems, anything where the message has to get further than the room it started in. Swipe through and pick one to try.

Save this for the next time you've got news to deliver.

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That gap is the whole thing in one line. Nearly seven in ten leaders believe they've been straight with their people abo...
09/11/2026

That gap is the whole thing in one line. Nearly seven in ten leaders believe they've been straight with their people about AI. Around one in eight junior staff say the same.

Both groups are telling the truth. The leaders did say it, probably more than once. The staff heard words that didn't answer what they were actually worried about.
We hear the leadership version of this constantly.

"I'm saying the same thing over and over and it's not sticking." Usually the message is fine. What's missing is any sense of what it means for the person hearing it on a Tuesday afternoon with a deadline. People fill in gaps.

They tend to fill them in with the worst available version. Come Back Wednesday on what to do about it.

Follow so you catch it.

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Five questions. No scoring, no framework, just an honest look at how your team is running. Swipe through and see which o...
09/09/2026

Five questions. No scoring, no framework, just an honest look at how your team is running.

Swipe through and see which one makes you wince. That's usually the one worth doing something about. We use versions of these when we start with a new team. They tend to surface more in ten minutes than a survey does in a month.

Save this and take it into your next team meeting.

Wednesday's five questions were a quick gut check. If you want something more thorough, we built one. Ten questions, abo...
09/07/2026

Wednesday's five questions were a quick gut check. If you want something more thorough, we built one.
Ten questions, about two minutes. Meetings, handoffs between roles, whether people feel able to raise something awkward, how connected everyone is to the bigger picture. At the end you get a read on where your team sits and what tends to help from there.
No wrong answers. Nothing to sign up for. Do it, then send it to someone else on your team and compare what you each said. The gap between your two answers is usually the interesting part.

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Everyone's busy learning AI tools right now. Fair enough. Still worth knowing what the data says about which skills are ...
09/04/2026

Everyone's busy learning AI tools right now. Fair enough. Still worth knowing what the data says about which skills are actually in demand.
Degreed looked at what professionals are building for 2026. Seven of the top ten are human skills. The top three, in order: leadership, communication, project management. There's a reason for it. As the routine work gets automated, what's left is the part that needs judgment and the ability to bring people with you.
The World Economic Forum put the automation risk for work involving empathy and leadership at around 13%. We've been teaching these for years, back when they were filed under soft skills and treated as the thing you do if there's budget left at the end of the year.

This month we're looking at what the shift means for teams, and what's worth doing about it.

Follow along. Monday, Wednesday, Friday.

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