Christian Lorig
Building better teams
What’s communication? Simply put it’s receiving and interpreting information that has been sent by a sender. The naive assumption here is that you can limit communication to conveying the mere facts. But the human communication protocol includes more and it always applies.
Some people have a harder time than others, accepting support. Those people need to learn, to give themselves permission to be cared for. Don’t wait for others to push through to you.
Maybe you’ve heard of delegation poker – a collaborative way to determine, what level of delegation a team and team lead are comfortable with. Let me tell you a story about how this applies to leaderless teams.
This blog is about stories and the right stories can be really motivating. The story about Napoleon Hill’s son from his book, Think and Grow Rich, for example, has always amazed me. What else motivates people?
A story about how small decisions in managing people can lead to major consequences and about how can consistency and consideration might save not just the manager’s face.
A story about a colleague, that approached me for coaching on how to create a roadmap. One, in which she actually remembered the details of the roadmap before it happend.
Let me tell you a story about one of my teams that fell apart. And all it would have required was some amount of planning and focus to give people perspective and purpose.
Daily stand-ups. Most of you have seen and participated in the usual 3-question stand-ups. Super simple, classic, outdated, missing the point.