February 9, 2024
One Last Try
You’ve one last try. Make it worth everything. But don’t regret something you did and don’t throw out everything you are just to get the win.
Articles for category: Ideas
January 7, 2024
Give your Meetings a Better Title
People only look at the descriptions of your emails when they go to click the link to join the meeting. Otherwise, it’s an auto-accept. Your title is what will make or break the level of interest in your meeting. The excitement that enters the room. You want people coming in saying – “I don’t know what this is about, but I want to be here to hear it.” No subtitles – just one line to get people into your meeting. “We are discussing this PROBLEM” “Need to figure out why Production keeps breaking” “Agree on a final design for new
October 27, 2023
Tell the Story
Stories save us in learning, they are what help us understand what to avoid, where to go, and what to do. They save the work of trying everything out on your own. They can be simple or complex, but in the end, the value they provide to what you are doing is what makes adoption simpler. They tear down the barriers to growth by getting through the what-ifs. They can make you smile and relax in everything you do. They are the tools that we all need to leverage – tell the story.
October 21, 2023
What Matters to the Team isn’t what Matters to the Individual
The team needs a leader, the individual needs a mentor. You lead the team, by connecting with the individuals and figuring out what they need to buy into the vision. Some will resist, they can’t see it on the first, the second, or the eighteenth day. They have different viewpoints, different goals, and different ideas – the leader brings them into the focus of the team, not ignoring them but finding how they connect to the team’s vision so what the individual needs help with lines up with what the team needs.
July 9, 2023
Break it Down to Basics
You can’t argue that breaking down a complex task into it’s simplest components is the best way to tackle a problem. And yet too often, we want to look at it as one, huge assuming mass and deal with it then and there. Not every fire needs a firehose, sometimes it needs smaller, more tactile options to resolve. Sometimes we need to take a step back, write them down and then move forward with them.