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How to Ask for a Raise: Make the Case With Data and a Script
How to ask for a raise when budgets are already split: pick the right case, build a market range from three sources, and know what to do after each kind of no.
Sep 28, 2026
36 min read
How to Communicate Your Impact at Work: Turn Your Work Into Outcomes
One piece of work described for four different listeners, how to word your part of a team result, and what to say when your work has no number attached.
Sep 28, 2026
31 min read
Where the Eisenhower Matrix Breaks, and What to Use Instead
The Eisenhower Matrix is a fast way to sort today and a weak way to set priorities. Five places it fails, one fix for each, and a manager's list sorted twice.
Sep 25, 2026
30 min read
How to Repair a Relationship at Work After a Blowup
How to repair a relationship at work after a blowup with a colleague or your manager: when to apologize, what to say, and what the weeks after should look like.
Sep 25, 2026
33 min read
Pre-Mortems: Find What Will Kill Your Plan Before You Start
A pre-mortem asks your team why the plan failed before it starts. See a full run on an office move, how to stop people softening risks, and when to skip it.
Sep 24, 2026
27 min read
What to Delegate vs. What to Keep: A Decision Matrix
What to delegate and what to keep: five questions about the task itself, one manager's month of work sorted with a reason per item, and what stays yours.
Sep 24, 2026
29 min read
What to Say When an Employee Cries, Argues, or Shuts Down in a Review
What to say when an employee cries, argues or goes quiet in a performance review, how to decide whether to pause, and the follow-up email to send the same day.
Sep 23, 2026
31 min read
How to Give Feedback to Your Boss, and When Not To
Before you give feedback to your boss, check whether it's safe to say. Then ask first, use the words for five common behaviors, and recover if it lands badly.
Sep 23, 2026
34 min read
Storytelling for Non-Storytellers: A Structure for Updates, Demos & Pitches
One four-beat story structure for status updates, demos and internal pitches, with a flat version and a rewrite of each, and the cases where a story is the wrong tool.
Sep 22, 2026
28 min read
How to Lead a Team That's More Experienced Than You
How to manage people more experienced than you: what to say in week one, who recommends and who decides, and what to do about the report who wanted your job.
Sep 22, 2026
29 min read
Empathy vs Over-Empathizing: Setting Emotional Boundaries at Work
Where empathy tips into carrying a colleague's problem, how to spot it in what you do, and the exact sentences managers and ICs can say to stay supportive.
Sep 21, 2026
23 min read
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