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We have loads of ad hoc discussions about balancing clients, prospects, family, health, charity work, learning etc. What tools do we use? How do we prioritise? How do we manage the calendar? How do we stay sane?
So this week’s Let’s Talk (on Tuesday) is dedicated to the subject of creating balance:
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I know you’re experienced with balancing Alex Pitt, Zarir 'Zed' Vakil, Richard Saldanha, Linh, Lisa Solomon – would love to hear your thoughts. And it would be great to have Angie Bishop Hema Patel emma reynolds Regina Dundelova Luke Rodwell Eike Post Silvia Janska Damien Lucy Warman Ginnie Dallard with us too!
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Ha – this couldn’t have come at a more perfect time!
My family, work, life balance hangs precariously on a giant 3D pendulum. Every time I start to see a pattern that might be ‘manageable’, a pattern disrupter arrives (sometimes for the positive!) and it’s all erratic again!
I’m going to sign up BUT will be juggling children & after school clubs…….
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would love to come to this one! ’sadly’ i have an exciting meeting at 5pm already… will you publish a sum up bullet points of key discussion points covered and outcomes reached? 🙂 x
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Some notes from the call:
Top ”time sinkholes”:
– Work dithering
– Working for free
– Non-work downtime (social media etc)
What do we want to more of?
– Personal branding & thought leadership
– Networking & pitching for new business
– Serving clients
Vic talked about the need to focus on commercial tasks without any distractions – sometimes even down to turning off the internet!
Zed talked about personal…
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LinkedIn seems to be reducing the limit for how many invites you can send per week to 100: https://shanegramling.com/blog/revealed-linkedin-new-weekly-invitation-limit/
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Bad news for the guys from Reeves Pensions. Think everyone from the CEO to the guy in the mail room wants to connect with me.
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How ’employable’ are you? We now have several companies and investors coming to the TPC platform every week looking for portfolio professionals, and we are helping them find talent. Come along to Let’s Talk this Tuesday and we can discuss what they are looking for, the recruiting process, plus an analysis of what it takes to land exciting portfolio work:
http://staging.the-portfolio-collective.com/events/lets-talk
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Looking forward to seeing you there Deepshikha Yadav, Tracey Rob Perera grace olson-davidson Pete Domican James Bebbington and getting to know others like Izabela Maszczyk ROMY BECK and Vic Mistry better! Bring your experiences and questions along and we’ll learn together.
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Hi Lexi Radcliffe-Hart – getting the following error when I click through from the email notification.
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I am discussing doing a TED Talk with the organisers about portfolio careers/ future of work/ future of careers. What should its title be?
Have your say here: https://poll.ly/#/2jyJRjAY
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I voted but it didn´t let me add any new suggestions…. I still kind of like the term Work-as-a-Service or WaaS … how about something like Is WaaS the future of work?
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Thanks Julia. Not sure why you couldn’t add more, unless there is a cap on the number of suggestions. Stephanie Dotto – any ideas?
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Looks like user suggestions got turned off somehow – I’ve opened it up again so people can add suggestions!
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Calling all social media specialists – possible job opportunity @ Kidsitter: https://workinstartups.com/job-board/job/105133/social-media-specialist-at-kidsitter/
George Chan, the founder, is a friend and great guy.
Job description below:
We are looking for someone entrepreneurial and driven, who can deliver customer acquisition at scale and cost.
KidSitter is a childcare on-demand marketplace business through which Greater London-based families can find and book trusted childcare.
Our customers are busy parents who need help, whether it is a one-off, a last-minute emergency, or a recurring need.
Using Facebook Ads and Instagram ads, and free social media, we would like you to drive customer acquisition. As such, you must have deep expertise in creating these ads (including the visuals) and using these platforms for customer acquisition.
You can set your own hours and work from anywhere. We are looking for someone who is hands-on and can create, run and …
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Thanks a bunch, Lexi. It sounds really interesting, but customer acquisition through social is not in my wheelhouse.
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I know this was a point of discussion with Ben’s group on the last module discussion so may be of interest to our latest graduates to join in – Sophie Mitchell-Heggs Anastasia Trifonoff Deepshikha Yadav @peter-fayle Yasmin Gregory Fay Edwards Roger Holdom Sehr Tejpar Lorenzo Espinosa Emily Anderson