Do you believe in New Year’s resolutions? I’m not a fan. I feel like they can often make you feel like there’s something about your life – or yourself – that you need to “fix”, and if you don’t stick to them, there’s a sense of
Whenever I sit down to write an end-of-year mailer, there’s a thought that always lingers at the back of my mind, skulking in the shadows, whispering: “Is anyone actually going to read this?”
A few weeks ago, I read a book with a premise so intoxicating I finished it in 24 hours. A woman works in a big corporate office. She and her co-workers do not get on. As a little treat to herself, to get through the mind-numbing days, she
We launched Pomegranite in the year that I turned 28. Which means that Pomegranite’s 12th birthday is also my 40th – just three days apart, if you’re counting. There’s nothing like a milestone birthday to make you think about the ways in which you
There are some tasks that are big, complex and important but not urgent. They easily fall to the bottom of your to-do list because they can’t be done in one go and they tend to hang around for a long time. It’s easy to start
When we transitioned to working remotely, for the most part, we were quite conscious about finding tangible ways to weave the things we loved from our office culture into an online space so that we still felt connected.
A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend a Slack Masterclass, which focused on how to optimise internal comms within any company using Slack’s features. The class covered three main topics, and below I'll discuss some of my favourite points from each.
September marked my five years at Pomegranite and it got me thinking about my colourful journey as an employee, from little 14-year-old me trying to earn some extra pocket money at the local stationary store to new product development at a dairy manufacturer with my
On 25 September it will have been five years since Melissa’s first day at Pomegranite. Five whole years of her Monica Gellar-level efficiency, dead-pan humour, expert spreadsheet-ing, kind support, and “safe” hands. Could we be any luckier?
Feeling overwhelmed is a completely normal part of life. The trick is working our way out of getting stuck there. These strategies are helpful tactics to gain a little shift in perspective and keep moving forward with what we need to do.
I had a conversation a few weeks ago that - not to be too dramatic - shifted the axis of my life a bit. It was with my friend Meg, and it was about self-care. Wait wait - I usually glaze over at the use of that
Last week, our Operations Manager, Melissa, sent a link to our “show-and-tell” Slack channel about Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2023 - a term for “something we’re thinking about, writing about, aspiring to, and judging more than ever”. Forget the newest development in Taylor Swift’s