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Mini Lessons

A bite-sized, bi-weekly newsletter to help you “think like a teacher” when it comes to organizational learning and growth. It's our latest learnings, snappiest suggestions, and coolest questions, with guest writers from Learning and Development and other fields!

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How to Really Support Someone Through Grief

August 18, 2025 How to Really Support Someone Through Grief What does it actually look like to support someone through life’s hardest seasons? From today’s teacher, SARAH KAGAN We are excited to welcome Sarah Kagan as this week's guest writer for Mini Lessons! Sarah is a coach and founder who helps people navigate grief and design more meaningful lives after loss. After losing her mom to pancreatic cancer, Sarah left her corporate job and started building something that felt more human....

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Bonus Edition THE SIX "CHANGE LANGUAGES":LIKE LOVE LANGUAGES,BUT FOR CHANGE Learning to speak and understand different Change Languages can create the relational and collaborative clarity that change requires. Check out Aaron's article in Fast Company. Here's the link to the recent Fast Company publication. You can also read the full manuscript. As the name suggests, Fast Company is for "fast" reads—so because we wanted to say more about the subject of "Change Languages," a more thorough...

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Click to open in a browser tab August 5, 2025 AUTHENTIC CONNECTIONS: The New Professional Advantage How do we suddenly grow these all-important human skills when we just spent the last couple of decades undoing them during the mobile era? From today’s teacher, ANNIE HEDGPETH We are excited to welcome Annie Hedgpeth as this week's guest writer for Mini Lessons! As the Co-Founder and Creative Director at Hedge-Ops Software, she helps organizational leaders lead with clarity, compassion, and...

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Click to open in a browser tab July 22, 2025 YOUR INNER CHILDAS YOUR INNER LEARNER How could our learning and leadership benefit from remembering that we’ve got a kid in all of us? From today’s teacher, AARON BARLIN Do you remember how you would learn as a kid? Commonly, and sometimes all the way through our teens, the kiddo-version of ourselves learned through play—and all the bumps and bruises that came with it. We searched for new sights, imagined new stories and scenarios, jumped, ran,...