August 5, 2023
You can’t lead everywhere, you can’t lead everything if you try you will fail. Pick where you are strong at, pick what you want to learn more of, pick where you want to focus – add any additional pick criteria that work for you. But make sure you pick. The leader that doesn’t pick, that ignores the need to pick, becomes the leader that chose to lead everywhere and missed the point.
August 4, 2023
Not everything in your team will work. You will encounter challenges inside and outside of what you do that you cannot avoid that are part of the job. Making them your focus, takes away from everything else you are trying to accomplish, where you can make change and create good work. You can’t ignore it, you’re going to have to figure out what is broken, but you can’t make it your one focus, ignoring everything else, simply because it’s not working right.
August 1, 2023
I’ve sat in many Sprint Planning meetings and whether they go well or badly always comes to the same thing – what are we working towards? When everyone knows what they are working towards, and what the end goal is, they go very well, extremely well, and are very successful. When everyone doesn’t agree on what we are working towards, they go off the rails with esoteric discussions and back and forth on topics that take up the time in the discussion and end up providing little to no value. The team leaves the meeting wondering why they have to
July 30, 2023
Any job has a stressful component to its delivery. No job is perfectly stress free (sorry) and some are much more than others. Yes, pizza lunches don’t solve the bigger problem, but when bought from your manager’s pocket for the benefit of their team – yes, it is worthwhile and can be appreciated as they try to do something with all that they have available to them. Perhaps it won’t solve all the problems, but maybe it will provide a few hours of levity, laughs, and overall silliness as everyone bonds toward making things better with what they have.
July 25, 2023
You can plan for it but guaranteed it won’t happen you want it to. Team Igntion happens the moment your team comes together and things start clicking amongst everyone in the group. Everything starts happening and pieces start moving forward. You don’t know what made it happen, why it started now and not before, but this is the moment where it all starts happening. You can create the conditions for it, you can nurture it and grow it, but when it happens is anyone’s guess, the worst thing you can do – is try to force it. Forcing it only
