Listen to this week’s podcast episode, Ep.256: Career Derailment and Self Understanding: What, How & Why it’s Essential for Leadership, with Margaret Andrews, click here to listen now.

I know it’s only mid-November, but the end of the year is rapidly approaching. I’ve already started organising the Christmas & New Year Specials for the Podcast, which I swear gets earlier every year but there were a couple of awesome guests I missed out on last year because their calendars fill up quickly, so this year I’m starting early!

It’s also around this time of year that I take a hard look at everything going on in the world of Leading with Integrity, to identify what’s working and what’s not.

Unfortunately, this newsletter falls into that second group.

My feeling is, it’s lost it’s way a little from where it started. It’s become a ‘companion’ to the podcast while not really (in my opinion) delivering much value to you, the reader.

Am I wrong? The engagement data suggests not but if you’re one of those die hard loyal recipients who is in the ~30% who open it or the ~1% who click on anything, and more importantly if you’ve been reading the newsletter, enjoying it, learning about leadership from it, then I want to hear from you.

If you can take five minutes between now and 1st December to drop me an email or LinkedIn message and tell me: 1. What you find useful in the newsletter, 2. What you want to see more of or less of, then that would be a huge help.

And in the meantime, I’ll tell you what’s coming next…

I’m planning a reset of what this newsletter looks like and how it’s distributed. There’s work going on behind the scenes and on the website to prepare the ground for that reset and my current plan is for it to launch in January.

The format will be shorter.

It will be switching to fortnightly (or possibly monthly) instead of weekly and it will no longer be hosted on the current platform (beehiiv). More detail on that to follow, next month!

The new version will also aim to be more ‘bitesize’ with a variety of segments. It won’t be solely focused on the latest podcast episode anymore, but will start including more practical leadership ideas, conceptual/sci-fi leadership ponderings and shorter summaries of my favourite moments or lessons learned from the podcast.

The name (probably).

Also the intent behind the newsletter, as well as it’s core topic and values.

And, I hope, YOU the reader/audience will stick around too.

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Please do let me know your thoughts, feedback, contributions, comments, etc. etc. because your input will be extremely valuable and genuinely appreciated as the new format takes shape over the next month and a half.

As always, thank you for reading this far, thank you for being a part of Leading with Integrity and I hope to see you around the Community one day soon.

Be a Leader Not a Boss,

- David

In case you don’t know me that well, I’m David Hatch and I’m here to help you lead like a Starfleet Captain.

If you’re a new manager or first-time leader in a tech, expertise or specialist driven workplace and you’re feeling lonely, stuck, overwhelmed, or simply ready for your next chapter in leadership, the Integrity Leaders Community offers conversations, courses, resources and support to help you grow one step at a time. If you have a healthy love of sci-fi and want to learn more about leadership, then this is the community for you! Solopreneurs also welcome. 😉