navigate their work-life integration

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HONESTY TO NAVIGATE THE ROAD AHEAD 

One model I often use to help my directs and mentees navigate their work-life integration is the Heart, Tree, Star model. This is a model rooted in a growth mindset, which can help clarify your objectives by taking an honest approach to your career including unemployment and job uncertainty. 

  • Heart: Heart assesses what you love doing. What gets you excited everyday? What makes the day and hours pass? For me, it’s innovating. If I feel that I’m doing good work but not doing anything new or groundbreaking, I’m going to get bored. I also know everything that I do is for my family, and I don’t like to miss milestones. That means work-life isn’t a balance, but an integration. I can do this better if I work from home and if the company I work for doesn’t have a hybrid work policy, it’s not for me. 
  • Tree: Tree assesses how you want to grow. And I don’t mean achieving social definitions for growth such as a higher title but what growth personally means for you. At one point, my tree was to be good at my job and be a good mom. I continue to work on this, but it pushed me to set non-negotiable boundaries when it came to ensuring I had morning and nighttime routines with my kids. 
  • Star: Star assesses how you want to be rewarded. Money is the obvious answer but there’s other ways you can be rewarded. For example, one direct report told me they’d like to do a TEDTalk someday. We decided that in order to do so, they’d need some public speaking experience. We decided on a plan for public speaking trainings in addition to having them present at internal events to work up to bigger speaking platforms.  

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