July 17, 2020
We worry too much about messing things up. When we should be worrying about holding back and not messing it up in the first place. It’s the mess that shows us how best to clean things up and make them better then they were before. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US). I’m also the co-host of the Remotely Prepared podcast.
July 16, 2020
It’s days like these that I am reminded of the times I had 8 Hyper-V servers running at full capacity in my basement throughout the winter. I would do my best to block the heat as best I could but I could hear them grinding away in my basement. It was when summer came around that the AC could go back on and cool them down giving them a reprieve from their long winters work. And on days like this, I would never hear a thing because they would be so happy to be so perfectly chilled. Every time the
July 15, 2020
A leader delegates when they cannot handle all the tasks on their own so they engage the team to help. In many cases, the leader also looks to delegate tasks that will help their team grow as they guide them through this process. The key to successful delegation is exactly this, the continued observation, guidance and support of those tasks being performed by your team. A leader abdicates a task when they turf it off to someone on their team – no guidance, no support, no feedback, just the task. It’s usually accompanied by “I’ll leave it to you to
July 14, 2020
Tell me when this has worked for everyone involved? If it’s something simple, like the background of the page, sure, figure it out as we go. If it’s something more complex, like the vision of a new project or the upcoming of a release. Nothing is more demoralizing to your team then hearing – “we’ll figure it out as we go” when they are about to jump into a new project. There is a time to “figure it out as we go” and it’s definitely not at the beginning of a project. Want more? Check out my book Code Your
July 13, 2020
You would have to be a robot (or a chatbot) to not realize that your team is most likely starting to feel the effects of Remote Work Fatigue. Either they have or they are on their way to feeling it. These are one of those moments in your role as being a leader that you will forever remember how you responded and helped your team work through this milieu. For many it is starting to set in that they probably won’t be back in the office for a few more months, maybe more. In which case, they have more of
