There is no point in having a plan if you’re not going to follow it. But there is also no point in avoiding making a plan, simply because you didn’t follow it in the past. Not having a plan is okay for you – “I’ll wing it and figure it out when I get there” – but definitely not good for your team and you as a leader. If it’s your first time planning, getting…
How often do you take a training course, never to use it again? Or go to a conference, drink from the firehose, and leave it all in the city that you visited for that one great week? The purpose of training is to take what you have learned, apply it and reap the benefits from it. Learning is great, but implementing what you have learned, applying it? That’s growth.
I like the idea of auto-updates, when enabled, nothing gets left behind. The days of – “oh wait, you haven’t updated your server for the last five months” – are no longer conversations we need to have. I remember doing those “patch” nights where we would sit there and talk while someone patched the next server, then the next one, then waited for the next round of updates to come down, so we could do…
Been a busy few weeks. I’ve been trying to keep the daily blog going but yesterday I skipped a day (or fell asleep and forgot, which is way more accurate). So here we are, starting all over again (is it starting over if it’s only been a day). Whatever it was, I then signed into Wordpress and found it had updated itself (that’s okay) but that adding posts was broken. That might have been the…
The path of your team is set by you the leader. If you are not setting the path, then you are not leading them. You are along for the ride. And that’s not what they need. Don’t worry about the path being perfect, worry more about the fact that they don’t have one and get to building one.