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People & Teams Jess Skylar People & Teams Jess Skylar

Nancy’s Questions to Find Your PERFECT Coach Match

Nancy offers these questions to help guide you as you interview potential coaches. As Nancy shares, you’d never try on just one pair of pants - you need to try a few to find the pair that feel exactly right! Do the same with the coach.

At the core, trust yourself. You’ll know - and these questions will help guide you to exactly where you want to be!

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People & Teams Jess Skylar People & Teams Jess Skylar

Nancy’s Delegation Asssessment

Take this quick assessment - answer with your first thought - and get a sense of how well you’re building and leading your teams AND where you’re unable and/or unwilling to share your power.

Understanding where you are is often the first and most important step to unlocking possibilities!

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Claire Bernson Claire Bernson

Nina’s People Manager Job Description

Welcome to managing people! You might be new to managing employees and people management is a big job. Although every team will have their own best practices around management, here’s a general set of guidelines about managing people and what’s expected of that role (including some required things!). Saying the unsaid things!!!!

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Claire Bernson Claire Bernson

Nina’s Layoff Guide

This is a guide for HR and People Operations staff who are responsible for project managing layoffs and want to do it fairly and thoughtfully. It’s especially designed for smaller teams where you might be the only HR person at your company and are new to layoffs. If you’re a leader or manager who wants to do better in laying people off or is new to the process, this might also be useful for you.

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Claire Bernson Claire Bernson

Helia’s Why Interview Template

The Why Interview is your recipe for finding people who'll truly thrive at your organization. This focused early-stage conversation digs beyond skills and experience to uncover a candidate's true motivations and alignment with your mission. Instead of just checking boxes on skills and experience, this approach helps both you and the candidate figure out if this is truly a YES before investing more time in the process.

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Claire Bernson Claire Bernson

Reaching Out to Others: Jesse's Job Search Strategy

Jesse Noonan turned her job search into a relationship-building journey, sending regular updates to her network that strengthened connections AND opening doors. (Co-founder Jess LOVED receiving them and responded to almost every single one, including celebrating when she landed her job!!!).

Here's how she did it—so you can build your own version!

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Claire Bernson Claire Bernson

Making the Ask: Real Email Examples & Templates

You know those emails you stare at forever, trying to get the tone just right? Outreach doesn't need to be perfect (and maybe shouldn’t be!) — it needs to be real!

Using real examples from my sent folder, here's what I've learned about crafting emails that build connection, describe your ask clearly, and make it easy for folks to help.

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Strategy & Planning Claire Bernson Strategy & Planning Claire Bernson

The Magic in Reaching Out to Others

Feeling stuck? Don't go it alone. Whether you're reaching out to old colleagues or making new connections, there are simple ways to ask for help that build lasting relationships and get you the insights you need. The secret isn't having the perfect network - it's being willing to be real about what you need and trusting that people actually want to help.

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Claire Bernson Claire Bernson

Leveraging AI for your OKRs

Whether you have OKRs and want to integrate Libby’s wisdom (sub-bullet to infinity!) OR you’re starting from scratch, this will help!

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Claire Bernson Claire Bernson

Template - Leveling Chart

A simple leveling chart from The Helia Collective, covering compensation, role overview and success criteria for 7 levels.

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