Imagine an airplane perfectly taking off, flying through the air, getting to cruising altitude, descending and making a perfect landing. Now take your current team – all facets – Business Analysts, Product Managers, Developers, Systems Integrators, Quality Assurance, Support, Trial Specialists, etc, etc – and imagine them all on one team, standing in an empty hangar. Now imagine what plane they are going to build. Are they able to create the plane you need in…
A 5-minute owning up to the problem and what you should have done is much more productive than a 35-minute debate on what you did do in an attempt to prevent what went wrong. The former gets the ball rolling towards a solution, both parties focussed on moving forward, together. The latter stalls the solution process, strengthening walls, instead of breaking them down.
I wrote a post a little while ago regarding how a team culture is not built but is created and thought I’d expand on this topic here by delving into what is really needed to create a great team culture. Understanding the Foundations of a Great Team Culture
I’ve been doing the odd blog here and there on LinkedIn that I’ll update to my online articles shortly. Generally I haven’t shared them out via this blog because they are more technical in nature but I wrote one last week that has been rattling in my head for the last 2 months on defining our own value proposition and understanding how that fits into your team and organization as a whole, where the alignment…
I had never seen one of these before up until a few weeks ago. Think about if you received an auto-reply from a colleague that read somewhat like this… “I can’t respond to your email right now, I’m working on this great project right now and will try to get back to you later.” What’s the project? How great is it? What do I need to do, to be a part of it? How can…