Knockout Your Sunday Scaries is an every-other-week newsletter by me, Kristy Olinger, with a focus on workplace communication and self-development.

This book covers everything you need to know about creating a culture of valuable 1:1 meetings from cadence to location to agendas and more. Rogelberg, a leader in meeting research, argues that 1:1s are one of the most critical meeting types for the success of team members and managers. Conducting 1:1s successfully is foundational to being a manager and at the core of a direct report’s experience and development at work, including how well they engage, how they perceive the effectiveness of their manager, and envision their future in the organization.

Knockout Your Sunday Scaries is an every-other-week newsletter by me, Kristy Olinger, with a focus on workplace communication and self-development.

Knockout Your Sunday Scaries is an every-other-week newsletter by me, Kristy Olinger, with a focus on workplace communication and self-development.

Knockout Your Sunday Scaries is an every-other-week newsletter by me, Kristy Olinger, with a focus on workplace communication and self-development.

Knockout Your Sunday Scaries is an every-other-week newsletter by me, Kristy Olinger, with a focus on workplace communication and self-development.

Knockout Your Sunday Scaries is an every-other-week newsletter by me, Kristy Olinger, with a focus on workplace communication and self-development.

Knockout Your Sunday Scaries is an every-other-week newsletter by me, Kristy Olinger, with a focus on workplace communication and self-development.

Knockout Your Sunday Scaries is an every-other-week newsletter by me, Kristy Olinger, with a focus on workplace communication and self-development.

Dia Bondi went to auctioneering school as a way to support local non-profit groups with fundraising. Little did she know that amidst cowboys and cornfields she’d find strategies to help her clients, start up founders and C-Suite leaders, to make more powerful asks at work and in life.

Crucial conversations are defined as those where the stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions are strong. The bad news is that most of us are at our worst when the conversation matters most. The good news? The skill of masterfully handling crucial conversations through dialogue is skill you can learn and this book provides actionable frameworks to use.

Email is one of the primary communication channels at work. If you aren't responsive to emails, you can damage your work relationships. If you're consistently missing due dates or work requests, you get a reputation for being disorganized and it's just unprofessional.

In this episode, Kristy shares the 10,000 hour rule, the difference between practice and intentional practice, and a sports example of dramatic improvement without investing more time practicing and instead paying better attention.

In this episode, Dia shares what the zone of freaking out is and why it’s a good thing, the importance of knowing the why behind your ask, and how shaping your question to get a yes is limiting your potential.

In this episode, Kristy and Danielle talk with Todd Cherches about the importance of visual thinking and communication and explore the tools, tips, and techniques that help turn your vision into reality.

Some of the most productive and valuable meetings happen between two people. In two-person meetings the dynamic is different. Your attention is required and it would be socially unacceptable for you to pick up your phone and start scrolling during it. Here are my favorite kinds of two-person meetings and why they are so valuable.

In this book Scott describes a behavior framework where the x-axis is the degree to which you are willing to challenge others and the y-axis is the degree to which you care about them. Radical Candor is what you get when you both care personally and challenge directly.

Our socialization around gender drives our expectations around household management and tasks and these unconsciously become an unchallenged default. Until we a demonstrate a different model of gender equity at home, it will be hard for family units to change. Sometimes we do things the same way it's always been done because we can't envision another way. For International Women’s Day I'd like to normalize male domestic leadership by sharing what has worked for us.

Essentialism is the idea that you should define your highest level contribution and then protect your ability to do that thing over all else. By investing in fewer things, you get the satisfaction of making significant progress in the things that matter most.