I wrote this presentation and published it on Slideshare a number of years ago. It was a fun look at the people, the personalities you need to make your team successful, and where leadership comes from. I did it around the time that the comic book movies were not as massive as they are today, but there are still few unknowns in there that might make you think. Here is the entire presentation – “How…
We don’t wake up and are just ready to go and do something. For an individual, it can be hard enough to get yourself going but for a team, it becomes multiplied by each individual’s personality, abilities, skills, and experience. Getting your team ready, pumped, on the same page (insert whatever other team you want to use here), I like “gearing up” is a task that you can’t do 5 minutes before the meeting. You…
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…