I help changemaker leaders, teams, and other Thinkydoers understand their strengths, increase their quantifiable impact, and become fulfilled in their careers (without masking or mind-reading). My "how?" Accessible, efficient approaches to strategy creation, alignment, and operationalizing for goal achievement, with a special focus on Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). The approaches I coach and teach today build on well-honed expertise leading adult learning, instructional design, marketing, creative strategy and strategic operations at some of the world’s largest enterprises, and in public sector and political roles. In my individual coaching work via Thinkydoers, I help people who are "wired differently" (or otherwise "not from Leadership Central Casting") build authentic, rewarding careers as the leaders of change our world needs today. When not working with Red Currant Collective, my "other life" is in professional motorcycle racing. 🏍️
Join me for a (free) six-week experiment?
Hi Reader,
I was teaching another No BS OKRs cohort this week and reflecting: one of my favorite parts of the whole thing is the independent working time. During the workshop, I introduce an exercise, then turn everybody loose for their own drafting time; we reconvene, and the day is done.
It feels weird to host a course and then not teach ... but the feedback on those sections is consistently high. People often share that they appreciate the time the class gives them to think.
For awhile, I've considered an experiment with some informal body-doubling sessions -- similar to our No BS OKRs independent working time -- for people to gather and take some time out of our busy weeks to focus on goal setting and goal attainment in a more casual and self-directed format.
I took a pulse-check on LinkedIn the other day and a few folks hand-raised that they may be interested -- so I'm going to run the experiment!
We'll kick off on Friday at 9-10am Pacific / 12-1pm Eastern with the first session of this experimental six-week series.
And, you’re invited to join!
If you’d like more information or to request an invitation, you can do so here:
👉 https://ck.redcurrantco.com/goal_fridays
(and everything, including the tech, is informal / experimental / super casual – so be ready for bumps and bugs!)
If you can't join this time, but would like to hear about future iterations of the experiment, click here and I'll add a note to your profile and keep you posted about where the experiment goes from here.
Thanks, and I hope to see you on Friday!
-Sara
P.S. I shared about this on LinkedIn on Friday but not many folks saw it due to the Friday afternoon algorithm.
I have a pretty cool new offering for clients who need OKR enablement at scale: in as little as a couple of weeks, I can customize one of our standard trainings or asynchronous workshops for your environment; load it into an instance of our corporate LMS specifically for your organization; and either invite your users or give you a link to share with your users for access to courses including:
- Introduction to OKRs
- Creating OKRs Workshop
- Leading Evolutionary OKRs
- Aligned Individual Goal-Setting
and more. If you've been considering OKR enablement at scale but it's felt like an overwhelming project, drop me a quick reply? I might be able to make it super easy for you!
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I help changemaker leaders, teams, and other Thinkydoers understand their strengths, increase their quantifiable impact, and become fulfilled in their careers (without masking or mind-reading). My "how?" Accessible, efficient approaches to strategy creation, alignment, and operationalizing for goal achievement, with a special focus on Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). The approaches I coach and teach today build on well-honed expertise leading adult learning, instructional design, marketing, creative strategy and strategic operations at some of the world’s largest enterprises, and in public sector and political roles. In my individual coaching work via Thinkydoers, I help people who are "wired differently" (or otherwise "not from Leadership Central Casting") build authentic, rewarding careers as the leaders of change our world needs today. When not working with Red Currant Collective, my "other life" is in professional motorcycle racing. 🏍️
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