June 2, 2020
I’ve had the good fortune to interview Jason Cosman a few times, but this is the first time that the interview is being published. If you are looking for some guidance on how to lead teams remotely, Jason has been doing it for over 5 years and never stops surprising me with you easy he makes it look. The full episode is available here. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US).
May 28, 2020
If you didn’t see it yesterday, there is a new podcast in town. In all reality, there are probably a number of them, but this one is new to me. The past few months have put an exceptional load on people and businesses as they shift their workforces to working remotely bringing up a number of new struggles and changes which they are having to implement while running their current operations. I’ve likened it to putting the car into reverse when you’re already going 100 km/hr and see how the car likes that. A colleague (Colin Harding) and I thought
May 27, 2020
Of all the meetings I attend, this one hurts. It always crops up near the end of a meeting where you think you have knocked it out of the park and then someone says – can you stay on the call so we can talk on this further. I don’t mind the questions, I don’t mind the discussion. What I mind is that I didn’t do enough to make the meeting feel comfortable for them to ask these questions in front of anyone else. In the end they are never complex questions, just questions they didn’t want to ask in
May 25, 2020
If burnout is the scenario where you overwork yourself to the bone to get a delivery out the door, Anti-Burnout must be the scenario where you can’t focus to get anything done, you don’t feel like you can make anything happen and you don’t know where to start. While Burnout requires rest, stopping and breathing, Anti-Burnout requires you to do something to break out of the funk that you might be feeling. Some ideas; Make a Weekly To Do, start small, check off each thing you do each week. Walk/Run, again start small, no one is saying go for 45
May 14, 2020
And whether you do it in isolation, quarantine or whatever, it will still be there when you are ready to start. No sense beating yourself up over something you’ve yet to start on your own, with your team or as a company. It might be that it’s just not the right time. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon (CAN and US).
