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Making Work Work.

Practical administrative support, thoughtfully designed planners and resources, and workplace tools that bring clarity, structure, and confidence to the work you do.

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Black and white portrait of Kim Herbert, founder of Solopreneur At Work, smiling in a black blazer
Kim Herbert Founder, Solopreneur At Work

About

Work should work for you,
not the other way around.

We live in a culture that glorifies busyness. More hustle. More hours. More on your plate. But being busy was never the goal. Being in control is.

I'm Kim. Solopreneur At Work exists to help you do your work with more clarity, more confidence, and more structure through practical administrative support, thoughtfully designed planners and resources, and workplace-ready tools built to actually get used.

No fluff. No noise. Just systems that work, so you can too.

What "Making Work Work" Means

Making your work more organized.

  • 01

    More organized

    So nothing falls through the cracks.

  • 02

    More efficient

    So your time goes further.

  • 03

    Less stressful

    So you can breathe between tasks.

  • 04

    More manageable

    So the load feels lighter.

  • 05

    More intentional

    So every action has a purpose.

Structure isn't the opposite of freedom. It's what makes freedom possible.

How I Can Help

Administrative Services

Hands-on support and systems that keep your work running smoothly, so you can focus on what only you can do.

01

Operations & Systems Setup

Build the SOPs, shared docs, project trackers, and communication norms your team needs to run without constant oversight.

Project feeStarting at TTD 4,000

Scoped to your team's size and current tools

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02

Administrative Support Sprint

A defined block of hands-on support: inbox and calendar management, meeting coordination, and vendor communication, scoped to a specific stretch of time or workload (e.g., a launch, a busy quarter, a transition period).

Project feeStarting at TTD 1,500

Scoped to duration and scope of support

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03

Project & Meeting Coordination

Scheduling, agenda-setting, and follow-up tracking for a specific initiative or season, so nothing dies in someone's inbox.

Project feeStarting at TTD 1,500

Scoped to project length

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The Weekly Planner

Your Week.
Your Way.

Plan with purpose. Stay focused. Get things done.

A simple, practical weekly planner designed for solopreneurs and small business owners who wear many hats. One page. One week. Everything that matters, in its place.

  • This Week's Priorities Decide what matters before the week decides for you.
  • Meetings Date, time, and notes. Five slots, at a glance.
  • To-Do List Room for the everyday tasks that keep things moving.
  • Notes Ideas, reminders, and the things you'll want to remember.
  • Client Follow-ups Due So no client ever slips through the cracks.
Inside page of the kh. Weekly Planner showing priorities, meetings, to-do list, notes, and client follow-ups sections Stay organized.
Stay ahead.
  • Plan your priorities
  • Schedule with clarity
  • Track tasks & follow-ups
  • Boost focus. Reduce stress.

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Solopreneur At Work Essentials

Tools to help you run your business without running yourself into the ground.

The Weekly Planner cover, split white and gold, reading Weekly Planner: Solopreneur At Work, functional resources for solopreneurs and small business owners

Weekly Planner

Printed planner, not a download

A physical planner you can hold, write in, and keep on your desk. Priorities, meetings, to-dos, notes, and client follow-ups, one clean page for every week.

$100 TTD

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The spiral-bound Solopreneur At Work Planner with a black and white cover, gold foil lettering, and a gold line drawing of a woman working at a laptop

Solopreneur At Work Planner

The signature planner for running your business. Spiral-bound so it lies flat, finished with a gold foil cover.

$150 TTD

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Gift Package

Give the gift of a well‑planned week.

A ready-to-give box for the admin professional, new hire, or fellow solopreneur in your life. Beautifully packed and tied with a gold ribbon.

  • Weekly Planner
  • Signature pen
  • Mug or tumbler

Perfect for Administrative Professionals Day. Ordering for a whole team? Bulk orders are welcome.

Gift package: the Kim Herbert Weekly Planner, a black and gold pen, and a white tumbler in a kraft box tied with a gold ribbon

What I Believe

Brand Values

Practical over perfect

Done and useful beats polished and stalled.

Structure creates freedom

The right systems give you room to breathe.

Thoughtful systems matter

Tools should be built with intention, not added for the sake of it.

Administration is a profession

This work deserves respect, not an afterthought.

Every tool has a purpose

No clutter, no filler.

Work should support life

Not consume it. Always the bottom line.

Writing

Articles & Insights

Practical lessons from the OJT Series on starting work well, posted first on LinkedIn.

I've spent years watching capable, intelligent young people walk into their first job and quietly struggle. Not because they lack talent, but because nobody ever explained that work runs on a completely different operating system than school does.

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The week before your first day is when most of the anxiety happens, and most of it disappears once you're actually prepared.

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How you communicate is one of the fastest ways people size you up at work. The good news: it's a skill, and skills can be learned.

Read on LinkedIn

That's really the theme of this whole module: the rules nobody writes down, that quietly shape how people see you anyway.

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Being smart isn't enough on its own. The people who thrive early in their careers are the ones who are organized and reliable, even when things get busy; especially when things get busy.

Read on LinkedIn

Not advanced Excel. Not coding. Just the practical, everyday tech habits that quietly separate the employees who look put-together from the ones who don't.

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Your manager isn't your enemy, and they're usually not trying to catch you out. Understanding why they do what they do makes the whole relationship a lot less stressful.

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Work relationships are their own category: not quite friendship, not quite strictly business. Learning that boundary early saves you a lot of grief.

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This is the part most “first job” guides skip entirely. Your first payslip can be genuinely confusing if nobody walks you through it, and that confusion is completely avoidable.

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Your first job is a chapter, not the whole book. Stay curious, and keep building toward where you actually want to go, even when you're not entirely sure yet what that is.

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You made it past week one. The nerves have settled, you know where the bathroom is, and you've stopped introducing yourself to the same person twice.

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This module is about the unglamorous, repeatable behaviors that quietly build a reputation, because talent gets you hired, but habits are what get you trusted.

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At some point in this 90-day window, the close supervision of your first days starts to fade, and you're expected to figure out more on your own. That's not your manager losing interest. It's a sign they're starting to trust you.

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Learning to sort tasks by genuine importance, rather than by whatever feels most urgent in the moment, is one of the most valuable skills you can build early.

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Everyone in your workplace has made a mistake in their first 90 days, managers included. What they remember isn't that you got something wrong. It's whether you owned it and adjusted.

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You don't get to choose your colleagues the way you choose your friends. Learning to work well with all kinds of people is a skill in itself, and one that pays off for the rest of your career.

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This is where you start moving from “new hire following instructions” to “team member people can count on.” Initiative, used well, is one of the fastest ways to stand out.

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Somewhere around the 60 to 90-day mark, people stop thinking of you as “the new person” and start forming a settled opinion of who you actually are at work.

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Not every week goes smoothly, and that's normal, even in a job that's genuinely going well. This module is about handling the harder moments without letting them derail your progress.

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Around the 90-day mark, many companies formally check in on how you're doing, sometimes to confirm your position, sometimes just to set direction for what's next.

Read on LinkedIn
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The OJT Series

Four Workbooks. One First-Year Roadmap.
Built for Real First Jobs.

Starting a first job is one of the most disorienting transitions a young person will face, and most of them walk in with no map. The OJT Employee Track is four printed workbooks that walk a new employee from nervous beginner to the person a manager can rely on.

Not theory. Not generic career advice. The actual, specific things that make the first year of work go well.

  1. OJT 101

    First Job Survival Guide

    How do I survive my first days?

  2. OJT 102

    Thriving in the First 90 Days

    How do I go from new hire to trusted?

  3. OJT 201

    Professional Communication

    How do I communicate with real confidence?

  4. OJT 301

    Administrative Skills

    How do I become the person people rely on?

Why these four, together

These four workbooks were written as a progression, not four standalone titles. Each one picks up exactly where the last leaves off: survival, then trust, then communication, then the administrative habits that make someone genuinely valued. Bought individually, a young employee gets four separate lessons. Bought as one track, they get a complete first-year roadmap.

  • Built for the Gen Z employee. The Manager's Guide and Parent's Guide are companion titles, sold separately, for the adults around them.
  • Made for Trinidad & Tobago. Real, local detail: BIR and NIS, PAYE, WhatsApp as a work tool, and local workplace norms. Not generic international advice.
  • A natural gift or onboarding purchase. For a parent equipping a child for their first job, or an employer onboarding a new hire for their first year.

Single workbook

$130 to $150 TTD

Any one title from the track. Printed.

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Companion guides

  • For Managers: a guide to leading Gen Z well
  • For Parents: preparing your teen before they ever walk through the door

Sold separately. Ask for details.

This series is drawn from two places I know intimately: my own years navigating the working world (the lessons learned the hard way, so someone else doesn't have to) and raising my own four daughters through this exact transition, watching up close what actually helps a young person walk in ready.

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