May 20, 2021
It’s not easy, not when your job is on the line. Telling the truth, not watering it down, keeping it simple and clear. There are too many books written on this topic to mention. You can’t sell authenticity, you can only do it. The problem is that selling authenticity is easier than doing it. And that’s where we need to stop failing at it.
May 18, 2021
If someone doesn’t want to be lead, you won’t be able to lead them. If they don’t want your guidance, they won’t take it. No matter how much they might need it (whether it’s your opinion or there’s). What is one to do when this happens? Show up. Be consistent. Remind them you are here, remind them you can help them, remind them you can support them. Even after all this, they still might not want your help, they still might not see the value you are providing them to help them get better. What then? This is where you
May 14, 2021
A conduit is a pipe, it is a delivery system for getting work done and shipping materials from Point A to Point B. That is their job, and as a leader, that is a part of your job to. Working with your team to get Code from A to B. Growing your team from C to D. Implementing Innovation from E to F. Not everyone knows the path, the direction, the pipe they need to take. That’s why they come to you, the conduit, because they know, no matter what challenges lay ahead, you always find a way to make
May 3, 2021
The expression is to “get everyone on the samge page” because often we are not on the same page. We are on different pages, we have our own ideas, some are behind, some are ahead. Invariably at the beginning, we are all on different pages through no fault on our own. The challenge for the leader is to get everyone onto the same page with one important caveat – it’s not about getting everyone onto their page, but rather getting everyone onto the same page – even if it differs from their own. That’s the tricky part.
May 2, 2021
I wanted to find a way to have a team event that wasn’t going to be repetitive from what we had had recently. We’d done the Take Out Tuesday and the odd drinks but those were just a few people chatting. This needed to be for 30+ people who I wanted to have a good laugh and also very much pat them on the back for the great work that they had been doing. What I came up with was a game of – “How well do you know your team?” – with the wink being towards how long we
