October 26, 2023
Try it. Just see. It doesn’t matter if you get it right or wrong, just try it and see. Because if you don’t try it, you’re never going to know what could happen and you’re always going to be left wondering what should happen to make to get there.
October 24, 2023
If you are always winning, you’ll never know what to do when you lose. You’ll never know how to help your team when they are faced with that change in paradigm, when things go wrong when people aren’t there when stuff doesn’t line up. You need that feeling of something going wrong, you need that emphasis of something breaking and having to figure your way out, you need that pressure to know you have to create another path to get out of it. Without losing, you’ll never have those opportunities to do those great things.
October 19, 2023
Start small, master the small, get really scary good at it, keep track of it and how you are doing. And then add more. But don’t add until you’ve mastered the first small thing. Otherwise, it’s simply a set of experiments you are doing (not bad either) but not the goal.
October 18, 2023
A team needs principles, tenets, values, a mantra, a song, a theme… They need something they can get behind, something they can always fall back on when they are not sure what to do. If you’re making one for your team, some thoughts; Don’t do it by yourself – it can be a great team exercise. Keep it digestible – a page, a print-out, something that can be viewed everywhere and anywhere and doesn’t require scrolling to “get to it”. Call Back to It – Don’t just talk to it, call back to it every single time you are doing
October 17, 2023
Some of my most memorable one-on-ones have been a walk to get a coffee (or let’s be honest tea). They are not planned, they are not structured and they start with a simple question – “How is it going?” or “What do you think of this?”. You don’t need to make them a complex lunch, planning session, build-up that takes 1 hour. Most times you’ll get more out of that relaxed 15 min discussion.
