PinnedEvan’s Notable StoriesPieces about work, life, and levity — Updated 2022 April 22 I Unintentionally Joined ‘The Great Resignation’ My revelations might get you moving tooindex.medium.com For People Who Need Your Help, Be Honest… but Be Kind We’re all busy, but that’s never a good excusemedium.com “Self-Care” at Work Is Finally Front And Center In 2021, we moved psychological safety from the bibliography to the table of contentsindex.medium.com1 min readEvan’s Notable StoriesPieces about work, life, and levityUpdated 2022 April 22I Unintentionally Joined ‘The Great Resignation’My revelations might get you moving tooindex.medium.comFor People Who Need Your Help, Be Honest… but Be KindWe’re all busy, but that’s never a good excusemedium.com“Self-Care” at Work Is Finally Front And CenterIn 2021, we moved psychological safety from the bibliography to the table of contentsindex.medium.comWhat if We Treated Our Relationships With Employers Like Marriage?No, not like that, hear me out…index.medium.comA Guide to Email Greetings Throughout the YearBecause ‘Hope you are well’ is only seasonalmedium.com136136
Published in Other Duties Assigned·5 days agoWorkplace Culture is a VerbPut down the ping-pong paddle and pick up your people — Workplace culture is a verb, full stop. It’s not office ping-pong or weekday happy hours or casual Fridays. Culture is, as Edgar Schein noted, a “pattern of basic assumptions… that has worked well enough to be considered valid.” Culture is a verb. The success of culture is everyone’s responsibility —…Work2 min read
Published in Two Minute Madness·May 6Bosses, Your Employees Are Job SearchingMy deepest sympathies if this is a surprise — To everyone reading this who is a boss (i.e., you have people who report to you), here’s a little secret: your people are job searching. And if they’re not yet, trust me, they’re one avoidable, lackluster experience away from firing up Indeed.com or launching the “jobs” tab on LinkedIn. I…Work2 min read
Published in Wholistique·Apr 30Servant-Leadership for DummiesRobert Greenleaf’s 1970s leadership philosophy may save the world of work as we know it — “The servant-leader is servant-first… That person is sharply different from one who is leader first,” wrote Robert Greenleaf in The Servant as Leader — his seminal essay that launched servant-leadership into the fore more than 50 years ago. For those unfamiliar with the movement Greenleaf inspired, it may help to…Leadership5 min read
Apr 28Microsoft Outlook Is the Worst Social Media Platform in the WorldAll professionals know this to be true — Elon Musk is buying Twitter for the cost of roughly 2 billion boxes of Twinkies. And with that news, we seem to have forgotten about the other social media behemoth whose heft casts a $168 billion shadow over Twitter: Microsoft. Specifically, Microsoft Outlook… the worst, most vile, toxic social media…Humor2 min read
Published in Other Duties Assigned·Apr 21Sending Your Resume Into the Void is No Longer EnoughNow more than ever, getting out there means looking in — “I’ve applied to dozens of jobs in recent months, and I’ve barely heard back from anyone. I don’t know what else to do!” This was the refrain a friend recently shared with me. With his three-page, word-heavy resume in hand, he was frustrated that sending blind applications into the void…Work3 min read
Published in Curious·Apr 15How To Crush Your Ego by Getting Into ItWe all have an ego, and unmasking it starts small — I’m a former lead singer of rock & roll bands. Suffice it to say, ego has always been a big part of my life. When I put down the microphone and entered the workforce some-20 years ago, I had a difficult time letting go of that ego. I struggled with…Ego4 min read
Published in The Narrative Collective·Apr 14For People Who Need Your Help, Be Honest… but Be KindWe’re all busy, but that’s never a good excuse — “Don’t you dare ask me, it’s above my paygrade.” The cartoon character with fake glasses and a fake mustache on my aunt’s coffee cup was saying this. My child brain didn’t quite get the joke, but I thought the image was funny. When I asked about it, the response made…Life4 min read
Apr 2We Need a Nonprofit Fundraiser Bill of RightsPhilanthropy doesn’t raise itself, and the age of fundraiser self-care has arrived — The nonprofit sector, where I have spent the entirety of my career, is often woefully (and sometimes willfully) behind the curve on adapting to change. How many organizations had “preparing for a global health crisis” as a strategic planning priority? Before 2020, some 1.54 million U.S. nonprofits were staffed by…Nonprofit6 min read
Published in The Haven·Mar 26RIP, Nonprofit Fundraising EventA totally and completely serious obituary — Fundraising Event, 158, died March 19, 2022 in Kalamazoo, MI, where it was born. A memorial service, attended by 101,300 nonprofit fundraisers, was held Thursday evening at kitschy, renovated firehouse event spaces everywhere, replete with discount Chiavari chairs, bone-color linens, and cold chicken. Fundraising Event came into this world as…Satire2 min read
