Prompts are little pushes to help you do something. Reminders and Alerts are great prompts – “don’t forget you have an appt”. But there are other prompts, ones that are more valuable that you can give your team. “Hey, do we need time this week to clean up our tickets?” “We should work on those unit tests for all the code we wrote this past week.” “The team’s delivery is slipping… was there a reason…
Stated Outcomes. What do we want to achieve by the end of 15, 30, 60 minutes? “Everyone knows what everyone else is working on.” “We have a path forward to fix the problem.” “We will all understand the problem.” “Someone here will take ownership of this issue.” We don’t like stating outcomes because then it might “drive” the meeting, and that’s sometimes a bad thing when we want them to “flow”. But driven meetings can…
You have free time, you just aren’t using it. You’re scrolling. You’re browsing. You’re wasting. You’re doing anything but you would truly like to be doing in your free time. And yes, resting is better than any of the above, that is a solid use of free time.
Weekly meetings can be divided into two categories – ones where people need to hear from you and ones where you need to get something out of it. Sometimes they are one and the same, sometimes they aren’t. Team Status meetings where ten people give their updates, are meetings where someone needs to hear from you – you can try to automate it with an email or status report, but eventually, they want to hear…
You will mess up, that much is true. You can either learn from it or get mad at it, complain about it, wish that it never happened, or give up. Or, you can learn from it, you can figure out what you did wrong, and you can figure out a way to get better. “Masters” get mad when they mess up, but the learners, the ones that are learning for life, relish the chance to…