1 week ago
The SWOT Analysis has been around for as long as I’ve been learning. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats You can apply it to anything and everything – how do you fare internally vs what is coming your way externally? We can apply it to our team, our company, our industry, continually looking inward and outward. It’s a good tool to get information out into the open, but it only works when we take the next step – action.
2 weeks ago
Who do you really, truly need at that next meeting? Who do you not need? I’m sure lots of people want to be at your meeting, but do they need to be there. If they don’t need to be there, don’t invite them. We’re past the era of “they might need to hear something”, there is a new era beginning and starts with need and value.
1 month ago
If you’re using AI to help run your team, you’re missing out on the best part of working with a team: being in the trenches with them. I’ve never been able to lead a team and not do coding with them; I can’t do it. This doesn’t mean I’m in there coding 24/7, but if I can take a few bugs off the team’s plate or figure out what some investigation issues, I will gladly do that work. Sometimes it comes in peaks and valleys, but not being in the trenches with the team, it just doesn’t feel like leading.
2 months ago
Coaches provide direction, suggestions, mentoring, and guidance on how a problem can be solved. Leaders are the first to accept the words of the coach and work with the team, side by side, to implement what needs to be done. Sometimes one and the same, generally two, one sees things from outside of the team, one sees things from inside of the team. Both need each other to be successful. As soon as the coach and the leader understand that relationship, they are unstoppable.
2 months ago
You’re now a team until someone else jumps in. There are no teams of one, because it’s just you. When two people start doing things together, you have a start. When three people start talking through problems, you have a base. And when four people start moving in the same direction, you have an emergence. That’s a team.
