Whatever you have coming up in the week, take a look at what it is and plan it out for the week. But we don’t want to do that, because the prep is hard. There is a reason why prepared meals are so popular, because they do the hard work and all we have to do is the assembly. Once you know what you’re doing, the assembly is easy.
On a big initiative, where you have a lot of people reporting to you, where you have a big team and lots of money behind you it’s easy to be swayed into worrying what people are thinking and how they are viewing your progress. But just like with a small project, all that matters is the client. Nothing else.
I was reminded of a story a while back when a friend of ours was called an expert in their field. Whatever he was talking about at that time he stopped and refuted. Even going so far as to cancel a show interview because they wanted to advertise him as an expert. His response – “No one is an expert, we are all learning, and we are all, always gaining experience.” Useful advice when you…
Everyone. Not just managers. Not just Tech Leads. Not just Project Leads. Not just Team Leads. But everyone. Just because someone, somewhere, once, long ago, you can’t even remember where, but the emotion and the gravity of what they said told you couldn’t lead. Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t. And doesn’t mean that we need you to. So Lead. Now.
When a new team comes together there is a period of gelling that needs to happen where we go beyond – who you are and where did you come from – and get into the grittier work of having the team come together. Things like; What’s your zone time where you do your best work?Where are you working and where do you want grow?How do you manage your own workload?What support do you need from…