It’s taken for granted that you should be on time. I mean, someone went to the work of asking you to come to a meeting. They booked the room. They put together the agenda. They put everything in place to ensure that the time the team shares is spent usefully and not a complete waste of what everyone is trying to do. So why not be on time for that? If you decide that’s not…
I received an email recently from a recruiter recently that only consisted of the title of the job in the subject line and a copied description in the body. No – hello. No – what’s up. No – what do you think. The goal was for me to respond with either a yes or no before a real conversation took place. That was the gate and it was up to me to decide what to…
Good environments, great teams, amazing delivery environments, go bad. In can be a result of any number of factors; familiarity, history, hubris, laziness, indifference, whichever the factor you choose. But good teams can go bad. The goal is to make sure it doesn’t happen to yours and to always keep the focus where it should be. To that end; Keep them on target – distractions are a team’s worst enemy.Remind them why they are here…
It doesn’t matter, what you say or how many times you say it. How often you stand up in front of people to deliver that slick powerpoint that checks all the boxes for how good you can be. It doesn’t matter. Because no one will remember. They will remember how you acted and that’s what matters. Translation: Words are nice, but when not backed up by actions they mean very little and are only taken…
There is nothing glamorous about it. And that’s the point.