Weekly Wanderings

 

🎉CHEERS TO THE WEEKEND

 

📖 What we are studying: Untangle Your Emotions by Jennie Allen

 

🙏🏽 What we are praying:

Jen & Scott: Armor of God, Lectio 365

 

👀 What we are watching:

Fam: Whole Story (Red Rocks Church), Rockies 💜⚾️

Fireworks on Coors Field

A Quite Place: Day One NYT

 

🎧 What we are listening to:

Jen: Mailee's WERSH playlist 

Nate Smith

 Listen, Listen, Listen: How to build Deep Connections Stanford GSB Podcast

 

📚 What we are reading:

Jen: Untangle Your Emotions by Jennie Allen (faith)

Stories For Work by Dolan (work)

Primed To Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultured Through the Science of Total Motivation by Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor (work)

First Lie Wins by Ashley Elson (thriller, fun)

Just For The Summer by Abby Jimenez (beach read)

 

🚗 Where we are going:

Jen & Scott: 

Rocky Church Fredrick 10:45 AM worship with Mai

 

📌 What we are doing:

Fam: Celebrating Independence Day🇺🇸

 

🍏 What we are eating:

Jen - Huli Huli Chicken NYT Cooking

Deconstructed Strawberry Shortcake by Barefoot Contessa 🍓

 

💃🕺 What we are wearing: 

Sunshine and Smiles! 

 

🚨QUICK READ

(This is a mix of work & personal)

📌 How Dragons, Magic and Steamy Sex Took Over The Book World WSJ

 

📌 Research: Using AI At Work Makes Us Lonelier and Less Healthy HBR

 

📌 3 Ways To Build A Culture That Lets High Performers Thrive HBR

Great questions for strategic storytelling:

“What are teammates excited about working on in the upcoming quarter?

What might be causing them anxiety or pressure?

What habits does the team want to improve?

What are some specific ideas to improve those habits?

What did we do really well last quarter that we should maintain?”

 

📌 The Power of Finding The Sweet Spot of Hybrid Work WSJ

“How do companies stack up in innovation and engagement and development categories? We zeroed in on those two areas—innovation, and employee engagement and development—because a host of executives have complained that working from home can negatively affect people's ability to generate new ideas and can undermine morale and productivity.”

 

📌 The Four Day Work Week: How It's Working At Two Companies WSJ

“DALE WHELEHAN: The four-day week is already here—people are only working the equivalent of productivity of around four days. But there's a huge amount of unproductive time in the workweek due to long meetings, inefficient technology, poor communication, poor process. And so what 4 Day Week does is we work with organizations to get them to work smarter, but not longer. Productivity is the main driver of our work.”

 

📌 The “Inside Out” Leadership Journey: How personal growth creates a path to success McKinsey