Pomegranite 12th birthday

Ladders, compasses, flint and flames

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

Wilhelm Gunkel

Productivity hack: turning your face towards a task

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

Top tips to improve communication from the Slack Masterclass

Top tips to improve communication from the Slack Masterclass

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.

Solid gold takeaways from my five years at Pomegranite

Solid gold takeaways from my five years at Pomegranite

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

Pomegranite Consulting Melissa Castle

The one where we thank our lucky stars

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?

a wave in the blue ocean

Eight strategies to approach feeling overwhelmed

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. 

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A self-care framework (finally)

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

Pomegranite team 2023

You’ll never guess what the word of 2023 is…

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

Normalise saying I feel overwhelmed

Can we normalise saying, “I feel overwhelmed?”

Twice in the last month, members of my team have said to me, some version of, “I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed - can we talk about it, please?”Why am I writing a blog about this? Because I think it’s amazing. Not that people feel overwhelmed

Pomegranite turns 10

Pomegranite turns 10

1 July 2023 marked 10 years since we started Pomegranite. It’s surreal.When Liz and I sat down a decade ago to write our business plan, we decided to pepper it with ways we would celebrate big milestones. For our 10th birthday, we thought, we’d have

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