If you’ve never asked them, you can start there. That’s really all there is. There is no complicated mumbo jumbo or fancy leadership style books to read or culture decks to download. Just ask them what they need and start there. The plan, the strategy, the direction? You can figure that out later, but not until you talk to your team.
They will change and shift and confuse and destroy any ounce of progress you are trying to make. If you have a daily scrum every morning and every morning the priorities are different and in direct conflict with the priorities from the day before then by the end of that week you will have accomplished nothing. And neither will your team. And if you can’t stop the changing priorities, learn to intercept them, figure out…
Whether it’s being a Coach, being a Manager, being a Team Lead, a Tech Lead, the Project Coordinator, the Customer Advocate – pick your role where you are responsible for the delivery of a group of individuals the first step is always the same. Show Up. Show Up and bring your best attitude, your best work ethic, your best ideas and your best effort. You can make mistakes, you can fail, you can screw up,…
Not the picture in 1 month, 3 months or next year. But the big picture, the one that is 5 years down the road, 10 years down the road – that’s the game you need to be focusing on. That’s the picture you need to figure out a way to make less fuzzy and more clear. That’s the picture that’s worth working on and the one that you requires to make time for each and…
Have you ever noticed at the end of the day, when you get into your car for the drive home, you adjust your mirror. And when you get into your car in the morning to go to work, you adjust it again? What are you adjusting it for? It turns out that when you adjust it at the end of the day, you are generally lowering it. Maybe because you are a tired, down on…