Together Project Management: Monday.com!

Together Project Management: Monday.com!

Since the publication of our micro-book and continued popularity of our Together Project Management course, we are deep in all things project manage-y over here. Given that the end of school and fiscal year are fast approaching for some, when we heard about the folks...
Permission to Plan: Enter Blackout Days

Permission to Plan: Enter Blackout Days

In a recent online The Together Leader class, Aisha, a Vice President at IDEA Public Schools, opened our class by reminding all participants that they were in a Blackout Day, and that there should be no incoming communications from their internal team. Of course,...
Maia’s Mailbag: Slack. . . love, hate, or somewhere in between?

Maia’s Mailbag: Slack. . . love, hate, or somewhere in between?

My longtime friend Sorby Grant, Chief Program Officer at the Center for Resilience in New Orleans, reached out recently with some light anguish around her team’s use of Slack. It’s a challenge I’m sure many folks can relate to, so I thought I’d post my response to the...

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?...
Pivot the Plan: Burrito Brawls and Back-to-School

Pivot the Plan: Burrito Brawls and Back-to-School

I don’t often use this space for personal posts, though I’ve tried my hand at it once or twice. Letting you all into my (sometimes not so) Together World is occasionally instructive, and it’s also good therapy for me, too. This week’s grand confession? My own two...