Back in February we released burnoutindex.org, a free, anonymous, science-based way to measure burnout risk. We made a commitment to share our findings in the open and we’re glad to announce the first report:
“The more transparent a team can be, openly sharing how they actually feel, how everyone is actually doing, the better off everyone will be” Taylor McCaslin is a Senior Product Manager at GitLab. After studying theatre in college, he started his career in tech as a UX designer, and then pivoted into product management. He …
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We loved our original Talkit Interactive Dashboard 🥰but wanted to further the experience for you to really visualize your emotional state. Remember the lines showing positive and negative emotions? Well, we did a little quick math for you, and now you can see what’s called the Emotional Ratio, which is the balance between the two. The Emotional Ratio places you in one of …
Pujaa is a Deep Learning Engineer at an AI-as-a-service startup called Node. Growing up in Nebraska, she loved to read and was the state chess champion. She was first exposed to artificial intelligence when news broke that the first AI computer had beaten a chess grandmaster. She became drawn to natural language processing at Cornell …
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Managers know how 1:1 meetings go, they’re a necessary part of leading a team. Yet, their mere existence doesn’t guarantee that those meetings are yielding the best results. The problem can be the context in which they are developed, the questions that are asked, the frequency in which they’re scheduled, or, maybe, the problem is …
Last week I read a post on LinkedIn that went viral about a former Facebook engineer who resigned his job for not sharing the political actions of the company. The post gathered more than 40K comments, and from the few I glanced, the one that resonated the most was “Ping me back for a talk …
Though many people were already in the work-from-home mindset even before COVID, for others it’s a different ball game. Daily tasks are combined with more and more meetings than ever, and now, thanks to technology, those meetings can be had through video calls. Yet, many times though they can be avoided, they’re somehow not, causing …
4 resources to help you improve your self-awareness with Talkit, based on the experience of one of Yerbo’s own collaborators. Hi there! My name is Eugenia, I’m the Wordsmith at Yerbo and I’m excited to share with you what I’ve been getting out of Talkit after using it over time, and even what mistakes I …
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Let’s take the opportunity that Mental Health Month brings us to talk about these issues and stop the stigma surrounding mental health or, as we like to refer to it, mental well-being. A key element for that well-being is self-awareness, a deep and clear consciousness of one’s emotions. Self-awareness is currently considered one of the …
For a few years now there’s been research done towards the importance of emotions and the impact that they have in work environments, such as in the worker’s motivation to perform different tasks, in their health and wellbeing: both theirs and their teams’; and it can of course impact in their performance, production and creative …