We shy away from this question because it forces us to look at where we might be coming up short and more importantly – where we might be needing help. But it’s the question we should be asking ourselves each and every day in order to move forward. And the one question you should always be asking your team to ensure you’re supporting them in the best way how.
It’s easy to think everything needs to have a technology component to it. If something is broken there “must be an app” for that or there must be a tool for it. My favorite example is when I left a job many years back and when I followed up with one of the developers they said – “we replaced you with a bunch of tools” – (pun intended and funny) – but it didn’t do…
As a leader, you need to deliver. You need to get things done and you do that through your team. They are the indirect conduits to your success. You need to engage in motivation, inspiration, mentorship, and coaching. You need to lead the way by jumping in and helping with bugs they don’t need to be doing and leaving the juicy stuff for them to work on. It gets hectic, super hectic – mid-project when…
Leveling up in Video Games is pretty easy. They give you a progress bar, you gain experience, when you hit the next level you’re there – maybe they give you some kind of bonus or tool or trick or something. But you get the idea, it’s a known quantity – you work towards a metric and then boom level up. It doesn’t happen like that in life, because we don’t know where the next level…
The Tangibles are the metrics, the numbers, the data, the things that you can’t argue about – “we delivered on time” or “we were late”. The InTangibles are the gut feelings, the thoughts, the ideas, the context. You can’t measure them. The InTangibles are what people want to hear about because they generally provide the correlation and the context to the Tangibles. But you can’t talk about them until you have presented the tangibles. The…