Noticing our natural reactions, challenging our mindset, and adjusting our perspective is a journey, not a destination, and it takes practice in big and small moments, at home and at work.

It is essential to shift our mindset from perfectionism to progress. The key is to focus on consistent improvement rather than striving for unattainable perfection. By embracing an iterative approach, you can achieve remarkable results without compromising quality. Whether you are new in your career, a leader, an individual contributor, or an executive, you have a crucial role to play in fostering a progress-oriented culture. Instead of demanding perfection, we should celebrate incremental improvements. Here are five ways to embrace progress over perfection:

Framing the challenge, framing the problem, or framing the opportunity (whatever you’d like to call it) can be tempting to skip or simply replace with a snappy “how might we” question, but without fully immersing in the nature of the challenge, we risk causing harm with our good ideas.

Here are five risks of jumping straight into brainstorming with only a “how might we” question as the foundation.

How to receive it is just as important as how to give it. Use this 6-step process to receive and process feedback.

The reason we do the work we do at Navicet is because we care about developing teams that love the work they do, and do amazing work. The way people work together is just as important as the work they do together. Setting boundaries, both individually and as a team, are valuable tools to live our lives more aligned to our personal and professional values.

In addition to living a life aligned to your personal values, here are five benefits you can unlock when you and your team members set boundaries…

Lack of clarity on agreements and expectations for team communication dynamics is one of the most common causes of stress in working relationships. When we don't set social norms and team agreements with intention, they get set for us to a default – usually from the preferences or habits of one person, or unchecked assumptions about how others prefer to work.

Can you follow a repeatable process but still come up with something fresh, new, and fun?

Surprisingly, yes.

It may sound like a counter-intuitive, but it works; in fact, it’s how we designed a fantastic virtual party during the pandemic. \

The benefit of any prioritization model is that it allows us to quickly measure an investment against the alternatives, including “do nothing,” and assess it against the goals of the organization. Instead of just considering cost, an ideal prioritization method will produce a fast estimate of the return on our investment without the analytical overhead of having to monetize every aspect of every decision.

Collaboration is one of the most regular topics that come up in conversation for me. I’m not sure if it’s because of selection bias of who I tend to talk to, if it’s still a hot trending business term, or if I just signal something about wanting to talk about collaboration (I do want to talk about collaboration). After someone asked what it takes for a team to collaborate effectively, I thought we’d put together a list.

An individual workshop is great for learning specific skills, policies, and tools. While workshops can support organizational goals, stand-alone workshops aren’t designed to produce organizational transformation on their own. They can offer an introduction, inspiration, and some progress, but if organizational or cultural transformation is the goal, learning journeys offer an effective pathway to create value and shift cultural norms across teams.

When we ask our client collaborators, friends, and family members how much time they spend in meetings, we hear the estimate is upwards of 75% of their total work time. This is consistent across individuals who work in small nonprofits all the way to global IT enterprises. If we spend this much time in meetings – they’d better be worthwhile.

Here are 7 things you can do to improve the effectiveness and impact of your meetings.

What started out as individual LinkedIn posts turned into a small series. Since then, we’ve had a few requests to see all the tips without having to scroll back to our old posts, so we decided to consolidate them here. We also added a couple more tactics. Here are 10 key tips for working remote that work for me. Let me know in the comment what works, or doesn’t work, for you.

There are a lot of advantages to in-person presentations. When we are in the same room, we get to look people in the eye, shake their hands (maybe), and use all of the subtle signals we’ve learned over a lifetime to build a strong, human connection between us and our audience. As wonderful as it is, many people view video conferencing of any kind as a poor substitute for these face to face interactions.

It is impossible to know everything. But, if you can learn to listen and collaborate, you can know anything.

This was on the top of my mind as I wrapped up two life-changing years at Presidio Graduate School and started with Navicet.

When an executive at one of our client's asked me for a list of simple principles of design-thinking a few days ago, it got me thinking.

It's not like there's a shortage of them, as you can see from a quick Google search.

Once you get a taste of what it's like to truly delight your customers, it's hard to settle for anything less. In retrospect, whatever you did to delight them can seem obvious, and you wonder how you didn't see it sooner...

This is my first week as a strategic design intern. A week ago, I had no idea that such a thing existed.

At Navicet, we're on a mission to build design-led organizations. On the surface, the goal seems simple enough. Digging deeper, however, it turns out that a useful definition of the term is anything but obvious.

Just the other day, a board member from one of our favorite nonprofit clients asked: what exactly does it mean to be "design-led?" Having been at it now for a little over three years, we thought we would take a stab at putting it into words.

Here's how to tap in to the potential already hidden on your team...

Having a clear, coherent set of actionable principles is an essential ingredient for designing great customer and employee experiences, especially for larger organizations. But, easier said than done, right?