The Priority Plan: A Team Tool?

For some crazy reason, I’ve not written about Priority Planning yet on this blog – and it is basically my favorite Togetherness habit (see Chapter 4 of the new book!) A Priority Plan is a short, simple and shareable way to articulate your priorities to your manager,...

MaryKate Hughes’s Together Tour: Issue #104

Together Friends! The days are getting a liitttttle tiny bit longer, my youngest kiddo turned 11, and I’m gearing up for a long weekend Reading Vacation over spring break. And I don’t know if you have heard, but a lot of my favorite authors, friends, and...

Microsoft’s Planner: To Try or Not to Try?

Here at Together HQ, we try to speak all the organizational languages. Our own team is split between PCs and Macs, and we dabble in both Microsoft’s products (for our email, calendars and such) and Google’s tools (forms, docs, and sheets). But, we recognize that most...

January Tips: Travels, Trainings & Tidying

Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family Some of you are fully back in the swing of things, and others may have intentions for a gentle January. Me? I’m somewhere in the middle. The Playlist is still in action, and my January self is very happy that my December self...

September Tips: The Swirl, Signings & School Return

Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family Let’s just start with the big news! I wrote another book! It is out there in the world! This always terrifies me. Who has read it? Write me here and let me know what you think, or better yet, stop over at Amazon and drop an...

January Tips: Fire Alarms, Frosting & Feelings

Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, To the extent possible, we hope everyone is in the midst of a somewhat rejuvenating sabbatical – except popping online to read our newsletter, of course! After a colorful closing to our 2021 courses, I’ve been...

September Together Tips: Broken But Buoyant & Back-to-School

Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, HAPPY Back to School? Scratch. WELCOME Back to School? No, that isn’t right either. Back to school, hello, is it you? AGAIN. I see you. And that graphing calculator on the middle school math supply list I have yet to purchase....

Together Tradeoffs: Using Togetherness to Make Choices

Occasionally, Togetherness gets a bit of a rep for being inflexible. But we believe the opposite around here. As you’ve heard me say before, “The more planned you are, the more flexible you can be!” (PS I’m thinking I should print this on a shirt! Would you wear that?...

June Together Tips: In-Between Times, Contest & We’re Hiring!

Dear Together Friends, Fans, and Family, [author’s note: This was supposed to land with you Monday morning, but then second grader sent home with sore throat, PCR testing obtained, and is now my helper at home all week.] Hi. How are you all? Flourishing? Languishing?...