One of the biggest questions new leaders ask themselves when things get a little heady with their first team. What’s most important? The Team or the Delivery. Everyone will give you their own opinions but the only opinion that truly matters is yours. You know what you need to lead. You know what your team can deliver. And most importantly, you know what they need right now. The tricky part, is selling what you know…
We all know who they are. The usual group that when they get together, the same results happen, or rather don’t happen. Nothing changes, progress creeps to a halt and the everyone wonders aloud what went wrong. For change to happen, you some times need to break up the suspects and put them in their own corners, let them go or walk away. Whichever you choose, know that it isn’t your fault
The biggest hurdle to working from home, is knowing when to shut it down. This isn’t easy to overcome. I’ve spent many years working remotely and leaving the laptop alone, walking past it and not wondering what I might have missed while I was relaxing, is a hard temptation to resist. Some tips; Set your phone to Do Not Disturb during certain hours of the night, take a break, you need it.Work the consistent schedule…
More than at any time before in the history of your team, the software you use, the software you are using will change your team culture. How and what you deliver will inevitably be impacted by the software you use and how you introduce it to your organization. Conferencing and communications are the first step but what comes next? Will people always be calling each other because they can’t wait for chats to come through?…
I have played more video games in the past week than I probably have in the past year, easily. I have walked my dog more in the last few weeks than I did in the last month. I have watched more local news about my community, about those around me than I ever have (perhaps since I was a child). You don’t need to be doing something productive 24/7 to “get ahead”, you can do…