Leaders Letter 80

🤶 🎅 🎄 5 Tools For Before Christmas 🤶 🎅 🎄

Dec 20, 2021

Dear leaders,

I thought with it being Christmas coming up, it would be a good time to share five different tools you could use in the last few days of Christmas to connect with your team and help to improve communication.

These tools are mostly free and require low effort with quick rewards, therefore this should be a good resource for now or the first week back in January.

Burnout Quiz

360 Burnout Quiz
Free
Where? https://360learning.com/blog/burnout-quiz/
Why? Find out through six questions how burnt out you are. I saw 78.
With Who? Your team

Better Internal Video & Audio Calls

Around
Free
Where? https://around.co/
Why? Better option to zoom, enables a better and more workable solution to work and working solutions vs just sitting on another zoom or teams call. The echo terminator is a great feature.
With Who? Your company

Internal Asyncronhous Communication / Wiki

Notion
Free to $8 p/p
Where? https://www.notion.so/
Why? So many conversations are happening on email and on slack/teams and the knowledge is stuck in private chats and inboxes. Notion (and many equivalents) is built to share knowledge and enable communication and conversation away from closed and private inboxes. There are many integrations that allow you to embed, collaborate and edit within one workplace system.
Who Who? Your company

Internal Communications

Wordtune
Free
Where? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wordtune-ai-powered-writi/nllcnknpjnininklegdoijpljgdjkijc
Why? Do you struggle to write concisely or feel you write the same way each time? Wordtune chrome extension helps you to write clearly and authentically.
With Who? You and leaders who struggle to get their points across

Personality Types

16 Personalities
Free
Where? https://www.16personalities.com/
Why? Do you feel like you do not know your team well enough or do not know what truly motivates newer members of the team? This is a well-known tool that many have used and likely will help you connect with your team and see how your team will help share this throughout the company.
With Who? Your team. If you are in a leadership position and struggling to connect with fellow leaders, this is the test for you

I trust you find these useful. I know many have when recommended this year.

Have a great festive break and keep an eye out for a special leaders letter next week with my favourite hacks.

Stay safe and go well,

Danny Denhard

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