This week at work!
What I’ve been creating:
A completed services deck.
Last week I started working on a comprehensive deck for all of the Hapday Group products and services. We’ve begun to actively reach out to people for international ecosystem development, and many of them have asked for a deck on what we’re actually doing here. Because we’ve gone through exciting and significant growth over the past couple of months, none of the old decks were quite comprehensive enough. And so that’s what my first focus was last week.
I learned some incredibly helpful tricks on Google Slides that will save me hours in the future (did you know that you can select multiple objects and automatically line them up without trying to drag them into the correctly lined up spaces being guided only by those little guidelines that sometimes pop up whenever they feel like it?)
It was good to get this done and shipped off. It was even cooler when people started responding with awesome feedback! I’m excited to see how this impacts business development moving forward.
What I’ve been learning:
What goes into client onboarding
We onboarded multiple new clients this week and I was able to participate in various different discovery meetings and profile-building sessions.
This was really valuable for me because that was the one piece of the entire process that I had not yet been directly involved in. Though it’s not essential to be exposed to that to do my job effectively, it definitely helps to have a more cohesive picture of the process as a whole.
This week in New York City!
My beloved came to visit me for his birthday, so we had lots of fun exploring the city. I got to show him my new neighborhood and explore it more than I have by myself since being here.
However, the absolute top highlight out of everything that we did was without a doubt seeing the one and only Elizabeth freakin’ Banks in this random antique store by Union Square. It was my first official celebrity sighting since being here, and it just so happened to be one of my favorites.
At the same time as it was exciting, it was a little embarrassing. I mean, why was it even exciting? She’s just a fellow human, walking around with her husband looking at old mirrors and really expensive doorknobs. We put such weird value on people just because lots of other people know about them.
This week in Praxis!
We had an awesome session with none other than Hannah Frankman. We went through a painfully revealing exercise on setting and achieving goals. I’m a sucker for the kinds of exercises that make you put yourself in your own shoes 3, 6, 12 months from now and forcing you to take an honest assessment of what actions are going to get you there.
It was fitting, then, that at the end of the week I had my 2-month review with my boss. It was the perfect bookend to the week: starting it out with goal-setting, and finishing it off with some reflection and further goal-setting.
I’ve officially finished out two full months at Hapday. On one hand, I can’t believe it’s only been two months. The general consensus is that it feels like it’s been approximately 17 years since I got here. But at the same time, it feels like just yesterday that I first showed up in this foreign land.
Every day presents more and more reasons to be thankful for this opportunity. I can’t believe that two months are gone and done already, but I’m so excited to see what happens over the course of the next couple months.