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TGIF, friends. 🎉This was a week that started with a moment of pause and gratitude, and I hope you carried a little of th...
05/29/2026

TGIF, friends. 🎉

This was a week that started with a moment of pause and gratitude, and I hope you carried a little of that with you through the rest of it.

Here's your Friday reminder: you don't have to have it all figured out. You just have to keep paying attention and keep showing up.

Go enjoy your weekend. You earned it. See you Sunday. 💙

Two big themes showed up in my content this week, and honestly they belong together.💡 Self-awareness: catching yourself ...
05/29/2026

Two big themes showed up in my content this week, and honestly they belong together.

💡 Self-awareness: catching yourself before tunnel vision costs you respect and trust on your team.
💡 Why we forget: the research-backed reasons most learning quietly disappears before the year is over, and what makes it stick instead.

Both of them come down to the same thing: paying attention. To yourself, to your team, to whether what you're doing is actually working.

If you missed the Sunday email or the Wednesday blog post, both are worth your time. 👇
Sunday email sign-up: www.leadwithlinnea.com/signup
Blog: www.leadwithlinnea.com/blog

Every Sunday at 4pm, I send a free email to over 650 people who want to grow as leaders. 📬Not a promo blast. Not a listi...
05/28/2026

Every Sunday at 4pm, I send a free email to over 650 people who want to grow as leaders. 📬

Not a promo blast. Not a listicle. A real leadership insight rooted in real situations, like the one I shared this week about a leader who got so focused on their own frustration that they missed what was happening around their whole team.

If that sounds like your kind of Sunday reading, I would love to have you join us. It's free, it's weekly, and you can unsubscribe anytime you want.

Sign up at www.leadwithlinnea.com/signup 💙

Every year I head to a conference and come home FIRED UP. 🔥I have the best notes. The biggest intentions. I'm going to i...
05/28/2026

Every year I head to a conference and come home FIRED UP. 🔥

I have the best notes. The biggest intentions. I'm going to implement everything. This year is going to be different.

And then I get back to the office. A mountain of emails. A stack of papers. A to-do list that apparently had babies while I was gone.

Days pass. Then weeks. Then months. My beautiful conference notes sit in a folder labeled "for later." And out the door goes my plan.

Sound familiar? That's the forgetting curve. And it's not because you're lazy or unmotivated. It's because human beings forget. Especially when what we learn doesn't connect to the world we actually live in.

I wrote about this exact thing in this week's blog post, plus the four factors that determine whether learning actually sticks. It's a quick read and you'll recognize yourself in every example.

👉 www.leadwithlinnea.com/blog

Work in Progress Wednesday. 🛠️I just graduated with my Master of Science in Administration from Central Michigan Univers...
05/27/2026

Work in Progress Wednesday. 🛠️

I just graduated with my Master of Science in Administration from Central Michigan University. And the final class was a research paper on training design and skill retention.

I spent months deep in academic sources, data, and statistics about how and why people learn (or don't). And I came out the other side with one very clear takeaway:

The session is the spark. What you do in the weeks after is the fire.

We treat learning like an event. Show up, take notes, leave inspired. But the real work of making something stick? That's what comes after. The practice. The reinforcement. The small daily choices to actually use what you learned.

I'm still a work in progress on this one too. Just a more informed one. 😄

New blog post is live today! 🎉Here's the stat that stopped me cold when I was doing research for my Master's Degree fina...
05/27/2026

New blog post is live today! 🎉

Here's the stat that stopped me cold when I was doing research for my Master's Degree final paper:

Right after training, employees apply about 62% of what they just learned. Six months later? 44%. After a full year? Only 34% is still showing up in their behavior.

We spend so much time, energy, and money on training, and most of it quietly leaks out before the year is over. And this isn't just a workplace problem. It happens to your kids in school, to couples in therapy, to anyone who has ever sat through a class and thought "I'm going to use this."

The good news: there are specific, practical reasons why learning sticks, and I cover all of them in this week's post. 👇

Read it now at www.leadwithlinnea.com/blog

Training Tuesday! 💡Here's a quick self-awareness check you can use anytime you're about to push hard on something at wor...
05/26/2026

Training Tuesday! 💡

Here's a quick self-awareness check you can use anytime you're about to push hard on something at work:

✅ Is this genuinely important to the team, or just important to me right now?
✅ Am I pulling people away from things that matter more?
✅ If someone else was doing this, would I think it was a good use of everyone's time?

Three questions. Thirty seconds. They can save you a whole lot of damage to trust and relationships.

Which one hits the hardest for you? Drop it in the comments. 👇

Today is Memorial Day. ❤️⭐💙It's more than a day off. It's a day to stop, look up from the to-do list, and remember the p...
05/25/2026

Today is Memorial Day. ❤️⭐💙

It's more than a day off. It's a day to stop, look up from the to-do list, and remember the people who gave everything so we could have the lives we have.

If you have a quiet moment today, use it. They earned that for you.

Thank you to every service member and every Gold Star family. We do not forget.

A brand new Sunday email just landed in inboxes.Last week we talked about a dinner table moment that reminded me how muc...
05/24/2026

A brand new Sunday email just landed in inboxes.

Last week we talked about a dinner table moment that reminded me how much the people around us shape what's possible. This week's email goes somewhere completely different. New story, new question to sit with, same Sunday tradition.

Subscribers, go check your inbox.

Not on the list yet? Sign up at www.leadwithlinnea.com/signup and you'll catch next Sunday's right when it lands.

Sunday at noon. The week hasn't started yet.Before it does, one question.Who do you want to surround yourself with this ...
05/24/2026

Sunday at noon. The week hasn't started yet.

Before it does, one question.

Who do you want to surround yourself with this week?

Not in a permanent, change-your-life way. In a small, this-week way. The coworker you can pull up a chair next to. The friend you text instead of doom-scrolling. The colleague who actually helps when you say something is hard.

Pick one person. Reach out today. Set the week up before Monday starts.

Have a great week, friends.

Easy Sunday read for you.If you haven't seen this week's blog post yet, this is the one to grab with your morning coffee...
05/24/2026

Easy Sunday read for you.

If you haven't seen this week's blog post yet, this is the one to grab with your morning coffee. It's about staying organized at work without pretending to be perfect.

Here's the takeaway I keep thinking about myself this week: AI isn't a scary replacement waiting to take your job. It's more like a really helpful new coworker. People said the same thing when computers first showed up at work, and they turned out to be tools we couldn't live without.

The post has more on that, plus the email and to-do tools I actually use.

Read it: www.leadwithlinnea.com/blog

Want the quick tips sheet? Email me at [email protected] with the subject line "organized."

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