Celebrating Authentic Living

Wells Fargo is proud to serve as a presenting sponsor for one of my favorite events of the year: Lesbians Who Tech & Allies :: Queer. Inclusive. Badass.  Annual Pride Summit 🏳️‍🌈  

I am extra excited about the career sessions where we can connect as we talk about technology and opportunities to have a career at Wells Fargo. 

On Tuesday, several of us sat on a panel and shared our personal Wells Fargo journeys and answered questions from the participants about personal growth and development, how to prepare for an interview, the importance of inclusion, some open job postings and so much more. Sharing what we are doing at Wells Fargo in Tech is something I personally love doing.  Being able to share it with motivated, brilliant, badass engineers makes it even better.  Most important is for each of us to be able to be appreciated for who we are as we show up authentically each and every day.   

As we enter into a lovely three-day weekend, I want to encourage everyone to take a moment and read up on Juneteenth.  An important day in America’s history when the enslaved population found out the Civil War was over and they were free.  They rush to go find the family they had been separated from.  The moments of empowerment, hope for the future, and celebration.  

On Monday, join me in celebrating this important time in US history through reflection with the hope that we learn from the past so as to not repeat.  Wishing you time with your families celebrating togetherness. 

Happy Thursday!

-srt

Meeting Overload

In October of last year, we committed to getting more efficient and we were all challenged to cut down on meetings.  We’ve been somewhat successful, but I have noticed the last two weeks we are creeping back up in the number of meetings and even more so in the meetings scheduled over meetings over meetings.

I thought it might be a good time to take a PAUSE and get your feedback on how we are doing with the following:

• Meeting agendas – creating agendas and sending them out before the meetings or, better yet, in the calendar invite.  This helps all know what to expect and enables them to prepare.
• Setting time limits – Time limits help ensure the meetings stay on track and don’t run over. 
• Thinking before scheduling the meeting – Instead of automatically scheduling a meeting, ask yourself can I get this done in an alternative way?
• Sending out post-meeting summaries – It is essential to capture the time investment and to summarize what was discussed and decided on.
• Arriving on time / Starting on time – It is critical that we begin to respect the time of others by arriving on time and starting meetings on time.
• Recording meetings and saving to a common location so that when the meeting notes are published, all who missed or were late can go to that commonplace.

Please let me know how you think we are doing with the above and how I can support you and the team in adopting the best practices above.

Happy Thursday all,

-srt

Happy June 1

Happy June 1!

I love that I shared with you last week that I consider myself a superfan for Matchbox Twenty / Rob Thomas and that some of you shared that you too are superfans!  Not surprising that we have a team with diverse musical interests!  I heard from one of you that you love BTS (listen to Dynamite or Butter - so catchy!), another Brooklyn Funk Essentials (listen to the Creator Has a Master Plan), someone mentioned Armaan Malik, another The Doors / Jim Morrison (listen to People Are Strange) and we even have at least one Taylor Swift fan on the team.   Come on others, what is your favorite band or favorite singer?  Let me know, heck we may even create a PSST Summer Playlist! 

I shared with a few folks this week stories of my vegetable garden and the butterfly garden.  So, sharing a picture collage of The Farm in bloom.  The butterfly bushes, lilacs, bottlebrush, yarrow, oleander, irises, and maples are doing amazing.   As for my garden, the late freezes didn’t do me any favors, but the vegetables are doing well and we were able to harvest artichokes, asparagus, potatoes, kale, swiss chard, leeks, chives, garlic and a few strawberries this weekend.  The squash will be ready this weekend (crooked, spaghetti, acorn and butternut).  My corn, eggplant and cucumbers are just starting to grow and I don’t expect to see anything from them for a month (argh the freeze).  

With summer upon us, please remember to be safe when you travel.

Happy Thursday!

-srt