September 21, 2021
What you Need to Know
What do you need to know to do your job? Now, what do you not know? Focus on those gaps.
Articles for category: Growth
September 14, 2021
The Remote Growth Challenge
Can you grow your team remotely? And I’m not talking physically – I’m talking about leadership, development skills, scale, empathy, learning. Did you grow your team remotely? Did they develop over the past year when they were all separate? They probably weren’t attending any conferences this year so what did you offer them instead? It’s good not to have answers to these questions, it’s bad to now not do anything about it. Set the goals for how you are going to grow your team this year, share it with them, get their feedback, and move forward. A plan, an idea
September 13, 2021
Growing Past Elbow to Elbow
When you are small, everyone and everything is within reach – you are all close together, all next to each other. You can smell the excitement and fear as you push code into production. It’s not one person doing it, it’s everyone, waiting, with bated breath to see what happens. When a customer calls in with an issue, everyone is watching the chat conversation or listening to the speaker. Everyone is there, everyone is involved – your success is predicated upon how much everyone has and wants to put into making it a success. You are all connected at the
September 5, 2021
This is where it Gets Awkward
In any process, whether it’s code, leadership, team development, building, whichever, there is a part where it gets awkward. Perhaps it’s a hypothesis that failed. Maybe your design fell on its face. Maybe the presentation on team growth fell flat. Whatever it is, there is that awkward moment of silence where you can either look it in the eye and figure out how to fix or you can let it sit there, stare at it, get mad at it, blame everyone around you for it because “hey, I didn’t ask for this awkwardness”. But if you can embrace it and
September 3, 2021
Trust Your Team
Your team will have new ideas. They will tweak processes. They will come up with new designs, patterns, and practices. They will have a thought and want to run with it. And through it all, they will look to you to trust them. They will start with you, their manager, looking for that trust. And if they can get that trust from you, whatever they will implement will be that much better than if they hadn’t had your trust, to begin with. Give them the trust they need to grow and you’ll be blown away by what they come up