Whether you are a developer becoming a Team Lead, an Architect becoming a Team Lead or you’ve been hired as a Team Lead, the skills you need are always the same. Learn the People – you might know everyone’s work, but you don’t know their style, take a moment, breathe it in and figure out a strategy for how you are going to work with everyone. Know the Technology – Team leads are generally closer…

Quick Win – you make decisions today based on what you want to achieve today based on the mistakes you made yesterday.  Your focus is narrow and you’re looking at the impact as it affects you today.  Quick Wins involve sacrifices and shortcuts on their path to success. Long Run – you make decisions today, for tomorrow and the tomorrow after that, but your focus is significantly expanded to include the impact from today as…

There comes a time when you are writing a document and you question whether anyone will read it.  You spend hours putting it together and part way through you start asking yourself this question.  This is a document that you send out to a large group of people that you are not sure if they will look at it or delete it as quickly as it enters their inbox. So you have two options; Stop.…

While recently on a very long road trip, I spent a lot of time staring at my odometer to make sure I was going within the proper speed limits on our journey.  During this time, I kept noticing how I’d be going 100 (ish) km but the odometer could go to 240km. With everything loaded up in the vehicle, could I really go that fast? With nothing in the vehicle, could I really go that…

Instead of seeking out a relationship where you are the mentee and someone else is the mentor.  Someone who has been put on a pedestal as being unbelievably innovative, creative and execution driven. Seek out a co-mentor – someone you can give as much to as they can give to you – so not only do you grow, but they do as well. And better yet, find someone from a completely different walk of life…