Links and Resources To Get You Through The Holidays
For when you need a break from the break
Just sending everyone a note to say Happy Holidays and thank you for reading and following along to this newsletter. Sharing a few links and resources to get you through the holiday season.
Articles
Reflections on My 2023 - Here's a long read that chronicles my own year in review, and some of my lessons and learnings from my second year running my own business. (Link Here)
Career Year End Reflections Exercise - At the end of the December, I hosted a virtual workshop to do some year end work and career reflections. If you're interested in doing this activity on your own, I'm sharing the guide we used. I recommend setting aside about 1 hour to do this (Click Here)
Career Navigation in a Time of Rapid Change - If you haven’t checked out The Project on Workforce at Harvard I highly recommend it. This piece walks through some research on the critical career navigation skills employees need to thrive in a changing workplace (Click Here)
The Best Office Christmas Episodes Ranked - One of my favorite holiday traditions is to rewatch all of The Office Christmas episodes. If you're an office sicko like me, reply with your favorite episode (Click here)
I4CP: Priorities and Predictions - I4CP came up with some 2024 trends and predictions from interviewing their executive roundtables of C-Suite leaders from CHROs to CLOs and CTO’s. (Click Here)
What Really Matters at Work and Why We Should Care - BCG did a study on 11,000 employees to try to find out what workers really care about (TLDR: Comp matters, but so do a bunch of other things) (Click Here)
Books
Coachability: The Leadership Superpower (Kevin Wilde) - Kevin recently was a keynote speaker at a conference that I spoke at and I got a copy of his book. While a lot of research and insights focus on coaching and feedback, there’s a lot less on what people can do to become coachable.
Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future (Jean Twenge) - Jean’s one of the most notable and prolific researchers on generational studies, and this is a long book highlighting some of her most recent work. Unlike a lot of other noise out there, Jean takes a methodical and longitudinal research approach to her research, which is why it is often cited as some of the best.
Podcasts
The Edge of Work with Christina Wallace - This episode with Christina Wallace, was one of my most downloaded episodes of the year (Click Here)
Ezra Kline w/Sarah Jaffe: The Case Against Loving Your Job - This was a thoughtful episode highlighting some of Sarah’s book Work Won’t Love You Back. (Click Here)
Workwell with Kelly Monahan: Rethinking the Way we work - Great episode highlighting two of my former colleagues and two former The Edge of Work Podcast guests,
and Kelly Monahan. These two riff on multiple ideas on how to create a better workplace for people (Click Here)
Have a safe, happy, and healthy holiday!
Al