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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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