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.
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?
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.Â
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
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
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
At its core, DE&I is about being able to identify when or if discriminatory barriers are compromising equity.
Sometimes it really does feel like the right people cross paths with you at the perfect time. With Melissa’s promotion to Operations Manager at Pomegranite (the best thing to happen since Taylor Swift rerecorded her music for herself), we needed more project management capacity within the
It’s been so interesting seeing the different evolutions of Pomegranite over the years, as the business has grown, as the team has expanded, and as our lives have changed along with it all. This year has felt, more than any before, like a new era for
Do you feel most alive in the company of others and the excitement of bustling social events? Or do you enjoy the peaceful serenity of a cosy night spent indoors?