February 8, 2022
The truth is you might need to learn something now, and perhaps you needed to learn it yesterday or last week but you didn’t. Maybe it’s a course in your Udemy catalog or a webinar you wanted to attend, signed up for, but never attended. That’s okay because you have Now and Now is better than Never.
February 7, 2022
We want to come up with concepts that stick. Ideas that make people stop talking in a meeting and go – “whoa, that’s a great idea, and then we could do this, or this or this”. But the true testament to whether an idea is sticky is whether we see that person again, they are still thinking about it. Make your ideas sticky, make them so sticky, people can’t put them down and they keep thinking about how to implement them. That’s when you know you have a winner.
February 6, 2022
A release with no value is not a release. Every release should have value, every release should have something that we are proud to stand behind and look back and say – “we did that”. Every release should have something that makes us go – “wow, this is fantastic”. Even hotfixes. Even Service packs. An empty release is one that has none of this because we know there are going to be issued when it goes out the door, and we know there are going to be complaints. So we’re waiting for something to go wrong once someone starts to
February 5, 2022
We’re starting a new series on Remotely Prepared called “Remote Connections” – the idea is to find ways to connect with your team in a remote way. It’s been a few years since we have all gone remote and now more than ever, we need to make sure we are establishing these touchpoints for career and personal growth. Our first episode, no surprise, focused on One On Ones, and yielded some great content.
February 4, 2022
Nothing is more important than your team’s objective, purpose, their direction, even if you want to call it their policy. I sometimes refer to this as their mantra. It’s the one thing, the one line that people can repeat to themselves, again and again, that will find its way into their work that has the potential to seep into everything that they do. And all it takes is sitting down with them and batting around ideas to see what comes of it and giving them some direction. If you’re not sure where to start, start with this one question… Who
