You can’t skip days being a farmer. If you want to sell food at the market in September, you need to till the soil in April, plant in May, water and tend throughout June and July, and pick in August. I most likely have some of the actions and durations mistaken, but you get the picture. You can’t show up in August and do all those things that you should have done months before and…
Training is easy when someone schedules it for us. It’s even easier when someone shows us what to do as a group. It’s beyond simple when we have someone standing side-by-side with us to correct everything we do along the way. But it’s much, much, much harder to do when we’re on our own when there is no schedule and no progress bar – it’s just you and whatever it is you are doing, working…
Hats off to everyone out there is a Team Lead right now, it’s not an easy gig, there are lots of moving parts and it can be a challenge with your peers. One of my most memorable times as a Team Lead was when I asked someone to do so task and they responded back with – “are you telling me to do it or are you asking me to do it?” – in my…
This is the best way to start a meeting where no one knows what is happening or what the problem is. It sets the tone and gets people into the right mindset. It’s not about justifying your position. Assigning blame. Or analyzing what did or did not go wrong. It’s about getting everyone on the same page before deciding to move forward.
Everything is a subscription, we don’t buy it outright, we get dinged every day, week, month, and year based on our usage. And if we don’t use it enough there are base fees to “keep the lights on”. Not everything needs a subscription, not everything needs an account, a login, or a profile that does everything except cancel it. I don’t pay a subscription fee for my shoes and they are doing just fine. If…