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Hello Reader! Happy Monday from my corner of the world to yours! Today's email is devoted to experiments. If you've been hanging out with me for a while, you know that a huge part of my business strategy is listening and responding to the real-time needs of the folks and organizations I serve. In the hubbub of this season of life and work, I admit to feeling like my channels are a bit clogged. I'm hoping you can help! What follows are two experiments and an invitation to experimentation in your own leadership and/or life.... Bite-Sized ExperimentThere has been quite a bit of informal interest in my facilitating a public Feedback Lab, our signature one-day intensive for people to learn how to give and receive feedback more effectively. The cost would be a flat $350 per person (with solidarity pricing available), including a full-day virtual experience and a follow-up workbook. If this is an area you'd like to grow in, please help us choose the best date and time by filling out this poll by Friday, June 26. We need at least eight people to say, "yes" to make it happen. (As an aside, I have the capacity to run four more virtual or in-person Feedback Labs internally with teams in 2026. Please reach out if you want to explore that!) Compassionate accountability & emotional integrity are both hot-button topics so far in 2026. Somebody recently asked me if I would ever run a longer-form learning experience focused specifically on these things. I scribbled it down as an idea, forgot it, and then found my scribble last week. Now, I'm wondering if this is something you MIGHT be interested in. Here's my initial thinking for what we'd cover:
Likely 6-8 workshops over 6-8 months, with coaching and implementation support included. Specifically for people managers, team leaders, or executives. Price point to be determined and collaboratively established. If you are interested in this kind of experience, just respond to this email with "Compassionate Accountability," and I'll loop back soon! An Invitation At the beginning of this newsletter, I mentioned that I felt my channels were clogged. And I KNOW that this isn't just a "me" thing. There's a good chance that you or your teammates are feeling a little clogged, too. Most of us were trained to lead like we already know the answer, and that we're doing something wrong if we aren't sure what to do next. But the best leaders I know treat their leadership the way I'm treating this email: as an ongoing series of experiments. Unclogging doesn't require a big initiative, culture overhaul, or having all the answers right now. It requires a willingness to ask questions and sit with the answers (even when they're not the ones you wanted or expected). It requires being more curious than certain. It requires being unattached to outcomes and letting go of things beyond our control or influence. It requires paying attention to the words we hear and to the feelings and context beneath them. It requires taking tiny steps in a direction, without knowing if that direction is right, wrong, or somewhere in between. As we experiment, we have to pay attention to what happens, the data we gather, and how we and others feel before, during, and after. Then, we adjust and try try again. Forever. Leadership is a forever experiment. So consider this your nudge: this week, run one small experiment in your own leadership. Ask a question you've been avoiding. Try a feedback format you've never used. Sit in a meeting and just listen instead of leading. Respond to OUR experiments--here is how you can play along:
Whatever you do, I can't wait to hear what you learn! Here's to experimenting this week and always. I'm cheering you on! Marissa |
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