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Everyone’s trying to stand out in interviews by talking about themselves.

The ones who actually get the job ask better questions.

Every hiring manager is sitting across from you thinking one thing: Is this person the solution to my problem?

Not “Where’d they go to college?” Not “How long were they at their last job?”

Can they solve what we’re trying to solve?

Yet, most candidates never even ask what that problem even is!

So ask it. “What’s the real problem you’re hiring this role to solve?”

Then tell them how YOU, specifically, are the perfect person to solve it.

That’s the whole interview game. And almost nobody plays it.

Save this before your next interview. 👇

Every team has one: the energy vampire.

The person who walks in the room & all the positive energy just... leaves with them.

But the damage done by keeping them around isn’t what you think it is...

The longer you wait, the more you’re actually choosing.

You’re choosing to let your best people, the ones who are all in, doing great work every single day, run on whatever energy you have left after that one person takes the rest.

That’s the cost. Not the (perceived) drama of eventually letting them go.

The slow drain on everyone else while you keep putting off the feedback conversations that needs to happen.

And most of the time it never even has to get this far. The honest, direct conversation you keep postponing is almost always the thing that changes everything before it gets this far gone.

Steve breaks down exactly how to have those conversations in his How to Lead Better 1:1s video.

Link in bio → Free Coaching Videos

The post-it note graveyard 🪦☠️

The session isn’t the work, what happens after is!

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Waiting to get noticed isn’t a promotion strategy.

Most companies and managers aren’t motivated by opportunity. They’re motivated by pain. And until there’s a little bit of both... they won’t make a move.

The good news is, you don’t have to make it awkward. You just have to say it out loud at your next 1:1.

“I’m happy here. And I want to grow. I’m at a point where I need to be looking at what’s next.”

Simple, direct, not a threat...just enough to make them pay attention.

After coaching over 1,000 people through their careers, we’ve seen this play out over & over. The promotion almost never happens until you ask for it.

So save this & go have the conversation. 👇

If you’re in job search mode right now, save this.

This is , one of our coaches at Greenhouse. And she’s about to change how you think about the whole process.

Before you send out yet another job application, make two lists.

List one: every single person you’d actually want to grab coffee with. (And don’t think ‘Who can get me a job??’...just who you’d genuinely enjoy talking to, picking their brain.) Don’t filter anyone out. Just get names on paper.

List two: every company you’d love to work at. Dream big. Nothing’s off the table right now.

Now here’s where the two lists meet.

Take a name from list one & head to LinkedIn. Look at where they’ve worked, who they know, what companies they’re connected to.

Chances are someone on your list knows someone at a company on your list. That’s your first conversation.

Those coffee conversations are how most people actually land their next role.

The people on list one know people you don’t. Those people know people too. And somewhere down that chain is someone at a company on list two who was already looking for exactly what you bring.

They just don’t know you exist yet.

Drop NETWORK in the comments & we’ll send you exactly what to say once you get in the room. 👇

Burnout & being in the wrong job feel almost identical.

The difference shows up after time off.

Burned out?

Rest actually works. A real week away & you come back feeling human again.

Wrong job?

Take that same week off..come back recharged. But within a few days, you’re right back to that same feeling.

Nothing really changed. You just took a break from it.

And then you start thinking something’s wrong with YOU.

Like you’re bad at managing stress or you need to try harder at the whole work-life balance thing.

But it’s not a you problem. It’s a fit problem.

And no amount of PTO or meditation apps or boundary-setting will fix it.

We see it all the time at Greenhouse.

People come in completely fried, ready to blow up their career.

About half of them are actually burned out. The other half are in the wrong job.

The fix is completely different for each.

One question cuts through it:

“If the work itself changed, would I feel better?”

Yes = it’s the job.
Not sure = probably still the job….

Comment “CLARITY” & we’ll send you a couple free tools we use at Greenhouse to figure out what to do from there. 👇

Want to be better than 99% of managers?

if you have to psych yourself up to give someone feedback, you’ve waited too long.

That’s the whole problem. Feedback stacks up.

Then it feels high stakes. So then it gets avoided. Then it stacks up even more.

Meanwhile the person on your team has NO idea.

Silence from you = “all good”

An easy fix...NORMALIZING FEEDBACK.

Two questions. Both directions. Every 1:1.

“What’s working well?”
“What’s not?”

Manager and direct report both answer.

Do it every single time & feedback stops being an ‘event’.

It’s just... a normal Tuesday.

Nothing builds up because nothing gets held back.

Comment “1:1” & we’ll send you the video where Steve breaks down the full 1:1 formula plus a mini course on running better 1:1s with your team. 👇

Staying feels safer than leaving.

Leaving your job = risky. Everyone knows that math.

But nobody runs the other side of the equation.

Staying in a job you’ve outgrown has a cost too.

It just bills you weekly instead of all at once.

Three years go by & you can’t figure out why you’re so drained all the time.

Why you’re short with people on your team who didn’t do anything wrong. Why nothing sounds fun anymore.

Nobody’s saying quit right this second (in this economy???).

But most people make big career decisions with only half the information.

Run the real math.

What is staying in THIS role actually costing you RIGHT NOW?

Think salary, burnout, mental health….

Write it down. Be specific.

Then decide. With ALL the data in front of you.

Comment “VALUES” & we’ll send you the worksheet we use at Greenhouse to get clear on what actually matters before making any moves. 👇

You’ve been sitting on something to tell your manger for weeks.

You finally have the meeting.

And right before you say it there’s this moment..(and you’re probably already a little frustrated going in).

That moment matters more than most people realize.

Because there’s a version of that conversation where you assert your point…and a version where you get a little “curious” about where your manager is coming from first.

One of them usually ends in a wall. The other one actually goes somewhere.

The hard part is catching yourself in time to choose.

Comment LEAD and we’ll send you the video on other ways to start leading up.

Most people in corporate have had this experience.

You had the right answer, you knew it, and somehow you still couldn’t get anyone above you to move on it.

Frustrating doesn’t even begin to cover it.

What usually happened is the delivery put your boss on defense, before they even hear the idea.

Believe it or not, they’ve thought about this stuff too. They have a position.

So...you push hard and they dig in.

If you create a little room for the conversation to breathe first… suddenly they’re actually engaging with what you’re saying instead of defending against it.

Comment LEAD and we’ll send you the video on how to start leading up.