Give yourself permission
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.
Involvement Poker
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.
Motivation
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?
The Ultimate Hypocrisy
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.
Memento Roadmap
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.
Plans are useless. Planning is essential.
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.
Nobody cares about your status
Daily stand-ups. Most of you have seen and participated in the usual 3-question stand-ups. Super simple, classic, outdated, missing the point.