I'm a recovering academic who uses her insights from behavioural economics to develop methods that facilitate collaboration. In my weekly newsletter, I share the summary of my latest interview on the "workshops work" podcast along with an application of facilitation as a life and leadership skill.
New Beginnings and 10 Commandments || 🎤 Episode zero of Unprofessionalism
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Dear Reader, Do you have a new year's ritual? A word or a commitment for the months to come? Since 2016, I write my 10 commandments and choose a word every January. A few years ago I shared my commandments in this newsletter. One reader (and good friend in the meantime) started writing hers too. Now she sends them to me every year. It reminded me that sharing our commandments turns them into commitments. It makes it real. What makes it even more real is looking back at the changes and developments. My word last year was integrity. This year's is intuition. My 2025 Commandments:
My 2026 Commandments:
What a difference! 2025 was defensive. Building walls. Learning what drains me and saying no to it. Figuring out where I end and professional expectations begin. 2026 is offensive. Opening doors. Acting when things feel right, not when they look right. Surrounding myself with people I want to be around, not people I'm supposed to be around. Integrity required boundaries. Knowing what we stand for. Protecting it. Getting clear on what matters. Intuition requires ease. Listening to what wants to emerge. Moving when the moment's right. Trusting what you know without needing to prove you know it. We can't do the second until we've done the first. That's why today, I feel ready to launch Unprofessionalism—the podcast. Episode 0 is up now. I haven't yet figured it all out, but at least, I stopped waiting for permission to do it imperfectly. 🎙 Welcome to the podcast…Welcome to Unprofessionalism! My shiny new podcast, a provocation in the making, and the place to challenge everything we’ve been taught about being professional. Together, we’ll be peeling back the limitations of professionalism, on a mission to restore our humanness and bring joy, defiantly, back to work. You’ll hear stories from scientists, artists, entrepreneurs, and true masters of their craft as we question the very construct of professionalism, its silent expectations, how we can break free, and seek to be unprofessionals in all that we do! But first, join me from the very beginning. In episode 000, we’ll journey from the birth of professionalism to its existence in the age of AI, and why the only sustainable thing left for us to be is our real, brilliant, unfiltered selves. Find out about:
🎧 Click here to listen to the episode📥 Download my 1-Page Summary 🎧 The workshops work Podcast ClubNow that the workshops work podcast has retired, you may want to find peers with who to listen back and discuss some of the old episodes, to deepen our understanding and to link the content with our lived experience. All you have to do to join the Podcast Club is to join me on Substack: https://myriamhadnes.substack.com/ January 29th, we will gather around the theme of Polarisation in Facilitation. Click here to sign up for free. That’s it from my side! I hope you enjoy the new podcast. I wish you trust in what you already know, and courage to move when it’s time. I’ll see you next week! Myriam
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I'm a recovering academic who uses her insights from behavioural economics to develop methods that facilitate collaboration. In my weekly newsletter, I share the summary of my latest interview on the "workshops work" podcast along with an application of facilitation as a life and leadership skill.
Hi Reader, I'm still hiding behind an old version of myself. Today, I interviewed someone I highly admire, we got deep very quickly, he shared personal stories that are deeply relevant to the podcast and the theme of Unprofessionalism that I am exploring. Each time I wanted to extrapolate to the higher picture, the meta-level, the analytics, I realised that I lost him. The sparkle disappeared from his eyes. The recording ended up being the shortest I've ever made and instead of being happy...
Hi Reader, Most people use AI to write faster, I ended up using it to slow down 😅 Recently, many emails sound similar — same structure, same words. I find myself skimming through sentences, filling in the gaps. Basically not reading properly. Luckily, for my book-writing process, I had started to work with AI in a peculiar way: asking it for its tough love when reviewing my content — instead of writing it for me. Applying this collaboration to emails, I learned that I was misreading them,...
Hi Reader, How much money and time do you waste on self-development that you never integrate? It's been a week since I returned from an intensive retreat - four days without phone or access to the external world. I joined with the intention to look inside for insights on how I can better align my intentions and vision to my daily reality. For the first time, I am investing time and money in the integration: I purchased a six-weeks online course and am spending an hour per day on just that....