August 6, 2023
We Remember How It Ended
How you start is what gets things going. How you persevere in the middle is what keeps the momentum going. How you end, how you deliver, how you finish – is what everyone always remembers.
Articles for category: Delivery
July 31, 2023
The Imperfections of your Delivery
It’s not going to turn out the way you are thinking, dreaming, envisioning it – it never does – it never will. You can either rail against the machine that what you tried to do fail and chalk it up as meaningless or you can look at what you accomplished. You delivered. Your team delivered. You learned new skills. You grew in the role that you have. You made mistakes, you fixed them. Not perfect, was never meant to be – the goal was to deliver.
July 29, 2023
Does Everyone know the End Goal?
If everyone is not on the page with what the end goal is, then when it’s time to celebrate the delivery of the end goal not everyone will be happy. If the goal is taking considerably longer than originally thought, it’s important for you to ensure that everyone is still on the same page as to what the end goal is and what the team is working towards. Workloads and priorities shift and it’s easy for anyone to get tunnel vision into what they are doing and lose sight of what they were originally trying to accomplish until it’s too
July 28, 2023
The Stunted Start
Priorities are going to push your goals down, you might have 7 things you want to accomplish but can only get to 5 on a good week. You can either turf the other 2 or switch up the priorities – that’s the either/or option. The other option is to take a look at your 5 other priorities and think about what you need to do to enable the other 2 to happen, how can you create more time and space to be able to work on them without sacrificing the other 5. Sometimes it’s not about dumping what we didn’t
July 26, 2023
Training your Team
Only you know the training your team needs and only you know the path it requires for them to get there. They might be able to see it on the first day and it’s up to you to figure out how to get them there. You can either hold it into the very last day, or you can start from the beginning, map it out, do bit by bit every day, week, or month and plan for the moment when they get there and go – “I know this”. Because when training the team, it’s not today they are being