A void in leadership can demotivate a team from 100 to 0 in seconds. Where everyone is looking for an answer, a path, a direction, anything that they can follow as a guide, hearing nothing in return leaves you feeling stuck, lost and confused. So what do you do? Step 1, figure out what you can do. Step 2, do it. Step 3, bring people in to so they can become a part of what…
It is okay to say to someone – you don’t need a summary for today’s meeting. Because you were there, in the moment, listening, taking feedback, asking questions, being a part of the conversation and listening to what everyone is saying. More than likely, you took your own notes. Summaries are for people who didn’t attend the meeting that need to know what was discussed. If you are leaving a meeting you just attended and…
On a project, you have to hold everyone to the same level of excellence, delivery and output. This doesn’t mean that everyone has to churn out 45 hours a week of work. It means that the value of their work that they are churning out is comparable. I can’t talk for what it takes to write brilliant requirements or come up with the latest and greatest test plans that will make your heart sing. I…
Don’t be fooled into thinking there is only one speed and that is the only speed of innovation, creativity, ambition, excellence, perseverance, direction and vision which culminates into momentum. There are many speeds to momentum, we all have it, we all go different speeds depending on the issue being worked on and resolved to. It’s not a race, if it was we all we would have loss, because when we boil it down to what…
I like it when people do more over what they say. They don’t wait for “IT” to happen, them make “IT” happen. They don’t announce what they are doing, they roll up their sleeves, get in there and do it. They don’t call a meeting to vote on what needs to happen, they do what needs to happen and have a meeting to discuss the outcomes what they learned when they did it. Doers take…