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…
The Urgent Crisis of the Moment has shown up in your inbox in the form of a bug that is going to destroy the company if we don’t get it fixed today. At the moment, there is a surge in pressure to resolve the issue now because it is “hurting” things – maybe not you, but someone else who is dependent upon it. In these moments, there are two things to be done; Alleviating the…
Probably not. No one is ever ready for what is coming their way, if they were, they would be doing it. The usual response to this question is usually – “I guess” or “Okay” or “I think”. Unless you’ve done this task 17 times before, no one can ever say for sure that they are ready with 100% confidence. But that’s not the question we’re asking whether you’re ready to complete the task, what we’re…
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…