I’m pivoting.

Work resources are experimental. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t. Sometimes you can tinker and sometimes you start over.

I’m tinkering. Even when I worked in house as a Talent Acquisition leader, I always loved reworking processes until the best outcome happened. Maybe it’s because as a writer, I believe there’s no such thing as a final draft. There’s always something else to be done.

I really wanted to say this was a “work resource” because I felt like everybody is over newslettered. And we don’t even know what the “news” is in the “letter.” And I can’t keep up with all of the newsletters out there as much as I try. Some of y’all newsletter writers are FAST! As soon as I catch up, I am under again (unless you have short, glorious bites like the ones Madison Butler has) and I end up feeling bad. I don’t want to contribute to that.

Also, my creative writing is calling me hardcore. Like “Girl, what do we have to do?” Many of you may remember me saying I am a playwright in addition to my corporate experience. Lately, the two lives have been coming together to sip tea and build because, friend, I needed something new. Something that’s more me.

So I’m building something a little different for The Way We Work. I hope you’ll be patient with me. The best thing about building a business is the ability to experiment with freedom. The risks are my own. There are a million stressors that come with that but at this stage and in this environment, it’s on us to try something new as many times as we can to have the impact we need most.

To give you an idea of what’s to come, think of why storytelling is so important in the workplace. Storytelling not only allows leaders to share the path of the business internally, it allows the employees to share that same path externally. Branding. Talent Acquisition. Customers. Longevity. Clarity. Empowerment.

Like the Queen Toni Morrison said in The Nation in 2015: “This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge—even wisdom. Like art.”

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