4 Ways to Integrate Lessons Learned at a Conference
Have you ever gone to a conference, learned all the things and gone back to your team, ready to implement every last morsel of information? How did they respond? Probably with a face that would make you think lobsters are trying to escape from your head. Rather than trying to turn your team upside down with changes and “improvements,” […]
How to Avoid Burnout By Using Self-Leadership
My calendar is booked up a week in advance. With my classes, clubs, internships, and social gathering, I don’t often find myself slowing down the pace. At the time I am writing this, I just came from a scheduled 1-hour dinner with friends and before that, it was a photoshoot for a marketing venture. After […]
Goodnight Moon: Creating a Night Time Routine for Better and More Sleep
TV: “Stay tuned for another episode in the “up all night marathon” of Law and Order: SVU.” Me: “Okay, one more episode.” Four episodes later, it is 3am. We’ve all been there, likely with the same show (how can you not love it?) Whatever your late night vice, you may not have had or still […]
Ryan Looks Back at the Past 6 Months with Swift Kick
Dear Swift Kick Family, After 6 outstanding, fun and interesting months with you all, it’s finally time for me to retire. These past 6 months have been an absolute pleasure, and with this came several memories I will cherish forever. Being a part of #TeamHuman has been both eye-opening and life-changing for me, and I […]
How to Organize Your Goals So You Can Actually Take A Break
It’s hard to believe we are almost at the end of another year. I hope this year has been filled with laughs, kindness and new adventures. If you are like me, there are probably some things you didn’t get to move to your “done list.” And guess what? THAT IS OKAY. Life happens. Sometimes, to […]
3 Reasons Your Team Thinks You’re Not a Morning Person (and How To Fix it)
6:00AM, Monday morning, that dreadful and loud alarm you set on your phone the night before starts screaming. You immediately wake up feeling exhausted and dead, and you hit the snooze button, so you can get those extra few minutes that you “need.” 6:05AM hits, your alarm goes off again. Still feeling exhausted and dead, you […]
Making Meetings Matter – Our 5 Favorite Meeting Activities
“Welcome to this week’s meeting. I would like to begin by doing an icebreaker.” *Audible groan and visible slouching in seats.* Meetings. Nearly every professional has them, some dread them, most do them wrong. Below, you will see our top 5 favorite icebreakers meeting activities to lighten the mood and build community on your team […]
Q4 Retreat: How to Build Your Own Swift Kick
September 18, 2017 set the date for yet another amazing Swift Kick team retreat day for the beginning of Q4! This quarter brought forth even more amazing and crazy memories from the Swift Kick family that I will happily share with you. For this quarterly retreat, the theme that Sabina and Melissa had devised was […]
3 Reasons I Started Journaling Again
Dear Diary, Here we go again. There have been quite a few times in my life that I started journaling, then very quickly gave up or forgot about you as a way to process and document what is going on in my life. Sometimes, I didn’t know what to write or who I was “talking” […]
How to Run the BEST Team Meetings, Without Boring Your Team
Raise your hand if you’ve experienced meetings that were a waste of time. Raise your hand if you’ve experienced the chaos that happens without meetings. Meetings – they are necessary, but only useful when done right. At some of my previous jobs, there weren’t any meetings in place. There was mass confusion and it made […]