Many articles are starting to pop up now regarding how the workplace of 2022 and beyond will look different. More people will work remote with no more afterthoughts tied to that option. “Do you really think you can lead the team remotely?” “How much work will you get done?” “How will we check in with you?” “What if need to have a meeting and we’re not all in the same room?” These questions (and many…
There are lots of “days” for lots of things now – pizza, brothers, books, parties, plants, etc, etc. Some you might agree with, others you don’t know and might not even understand. But someone did when they created it, they had a reason for it and every time it comes around, they celebrate it with reckless love and abandon. You don’t need a widely distributed calendar to mark your own day for your own thing,…
We get into a meeting, great ideas come out of it and if we are busy, we throw them onto the backlog. This isn’t bad, this is how it should work – you can’t do everything, all the time. Also, it’s a great way to give things time to congeal in people’s heads, let them see what you are building now so they can decide if they reall need this later. Do we truly need…
Our natural response is to look at what is wrong with a particular situation and make lists itemizing all those things, going through what is wrong so you can fix it. But what if you made a different list. A list that instead focused on all the things you could be doing instead of making that list, instead of writing down what happened but instead focused on what you wanted to work on and where…
I wanted to find a way to have a team event that wasn’t going to be repetitive from what we had had recently. We’d done the Take Out Tuesday and the odd drinks but those were just a few people chatting. This needed to be for 30+ people who I wanted to have a good laugh and also very much pat them on the back for the great work that they had been doing. What…