And finally, The Story Toolbox, where I’ll share practical tips to improve your storytelling and presentations.

Next edition is out tomorrow!

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Shortcut Keys: your regular dose of productivity hacks. Every two weeks, I’ll share a tip, trick or recommendation to make your (work) life easier and more efficient.

The first one is about using text replacement:

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When I became a manager, I had no idea where to start.

That’s why I started The Manager’s Playbook, a new series of short, practical posts to help you build confidence and skills, one step at a time.

The first playbook is about: What skills do you focus on?

www.seckington.com/the-managers...

Monday Musings: a random collection of thoughts, musings and ideas, basically where I can post whatever comes to mind.

The first one is about getting asked “How many programming languages do you know” at a recent event:

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Thank you to everyone who’s part of the group! You’re all brilliant and amazing.

What to expect of the upcoming year? More dinners. More virtual events. More connecting.

Our next dinner will be on April 22nd at Dishoom! If you want to join the group and/or the dinner, dm me and let me know!

But there’s an entire community out there who just need to meet each other and connect.

And that was the start of TLDR.

I started organising the them a year ago, and it’s been so amazing to see how the group has grown since then!

It all started with the idea of bringing awesome women I knew together during a dinner. These were all friends of mine who I thought should meet each other. I realised I was having similar conversations with each of them: it’s lonely and sometimes hard being the only woman in your role or your team.

This isn’t just about theory.

This is giving you bite-size steps to take every time and help you improve, step by step.

So check out the first issue now:
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And if you like it? Let me know!

Improve: Upgrade your story skills

A resource to help you with your storytelling skills. Cause there are tons of exercises and practical advice out there that you can use and apply. Sometimes it will be books or videos, other times I’ll share a practical exercise.

Learn: Stories to inspire you

A great example of storytelling in action (talks, articles or other real life examples). Cause the more times you see great stories, the more you learn to recognise what you like and could do yourself. You need to learn what great looks like first.

Each edition will have three sections:

Reflect: Find your stories

A prompt to help you brainstorm and find the stories that are in you. To help you develop your “that would make good talk/blog post” muscle. These are the questions I ask myself when trying to come up with new talk ideas.

Nobody’s mentioned Thackery Binx in Hocus Pocus yet!

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Or you can *gasp* subscribe to the RSS feed:
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So it's an extra long post today, with highlights from the last 3 months. Including Wicked, Hadestown and Dreamlight Valley!

What have your highlights been? I'd love to know what stories you've explored and loved 🫶