Whether you are managing a team, aspiring to have greater influence, or just want to hone your soft skills – then we are building sparks for you.
Organizations are getting flatter, and it is no longer sufficient for ideas and strategy to just come from the top – good ideas are everywhere. We all just need the tools to get other people to listen and hear them.
And in organizations without a lot of hierarchy, trust and communication become paramount. And we want to help!
Popforms started with a vision of making common tasks simple – automating things like status mails and workflow. However, as the product evolved, we learned that people really wanted help achieving their goals and leveling up in their jobs and their life.
We are still working on the goal tracking and feedback tool that started it all, but a big part of helping people be better is content. And this is where Leadership Sparks come in.
What are Leadership Sparks?
Essentially, we believe that you are too busy to take a full online class (most of them are like college classes) so we are breaking down leadership skills into actionable pieces and sending them to you each day in email. So you can be a better leader/employee/person in 5 or 15 minutes per day (depending on the spark, the time commitment and duration can change).
Oh and we are making this fun and useful – hopefully you will love getting the emails from us.
The first 4 sparks are:
- Taming your inbox & achieving Inbox Zero
- How to write emails people will read
- Building a powerful personal brand
- A step-by-step guide to pursuing your dream job
About the Launch
This is a big day for us, and while I know I should be excited, I feel vulnerable and nervous – way more than when I have done public speaking. A better description for my feelings is how you might feel standing up on a stage in front of people completely naked. Seriously.
This is my 3rd startup, but this is my first product where the success or failure falls squarely on my shoulders.
Launching this first set of Sparks was truly “lean startup” for us. We cut and pared back everything we could to get a customer experience we were happy with (although I can tell you there are still so many things we want to improve!). I am hopeful though, because I really believe in the content and think people won’t be disappointed.
Even yesterday, I emailed the launch list first to preview the courses – and of course my site had DNS issues left over from some failed optimizations earlier in the day. Ugh.
We also had cut some corners on the backend – like email scheduling, since we weren’t sure how many people would sign up and it was the most untested part of our system. However, we had quite a few sign-ups yesterday, so I stayed up late last night polishing up the scheduling. There are still a few rough edges but we are working on those now.
Take a look around and let us know what you think!
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Thanks for your support and being part of our startup – we couldn’t do it without you!
