🤫 Whisper #1: The correlation between engagement and lightbulb moments.
For your brain to chew on.
I’m launching a new series at The Career Whispers. It’s called 🤫 The Weekly Whisper.
This series will deliver a weekly thought, question, or prompt to prime your brain for deliberate thinking about your career. You can think of each Whisper as a bite-sized, low-stakes optional weekly career growth experiment.
Most Whispers will be 🔒 subscriber-only editions🔒, and I hope you’ll upgrade to see them all. They will transform your career and your thinking. PS: see all the paid subscriber benefits here or just click the button below and trust me.
When I was a manager at Google, I joined an email-based Whisper Course. If you signed up, you would get a ~weekly prompt emailed to stimulate your mind to up your game as a manager. Sometimes it was actionable, other times it was intended to be thought-provoking, and it always seemed to come right when you needed it.
My goal in creating The Career Whispers newsletter is to help people navigate and thrive in tech careers. Tech is an extremely profitable and desirable industry to work in, yet it’s also fraught with challenges. There’s the pace and fragility of technology, the challenge to keep up and stay relevant, the ethical and moral questions that abound, the pressure to stay technical, and of course — constant launches, bug fixes, and on-call rotations that push us constantly toward the edge of burnout.
My hope is that these 🤫 Weekly Whispers help you stay grounded in your career and provoke thoughtful consideration, right when you need it most.
Subscribers can look out for a new 🤫 Weekly Whisper in the bookends of your week (Monday morning or Friday/Saturday/Sunday), depending on when I believe the Whisper will serve you best.
I recommend building a ritual of taking 5-10 minutes each week to ponder on each of these questions, thoughts, or prompts. You can even put a private calendar invite to hold a time and create space for this bite-sized career experimentation framework.
📣 Coach Erika
PS: Without further ado, here’s your first whisper:
Whisper #1
When was the last time you had a “lightbulb” moment at work?
Was your last lightbulb moment last week? Last month? Last year? Can’t remember when?
If it was more than 4 months ago, you might ask yourself if you’re feeling challenged enough or engaged enough in your work.