There are programs that require you to get experience before you can proceed to the next level. It’s not about slowing you down (which we often think), it’s about applying what you have learned and, hopefully, questioning it, trying out what does and doesn’t work before taking the next step. Growth does not happen all at once, you might be able to cram a 17-hour course into one day, but are you better off doing…
Find a book. Start that course from Udemy you purchased six months ago. Learn a new skill. Run a little farther. No one is saying you need to master the subject, no one is saying you need to become an expert or invest 4 hours a day. Catch up on that seminar you might have missed. Most of all, Summer Learning should be about things you want to learn, not stuff that other people want…
You don’t build a process for one person. You figure out why that person isn’t following the process in place for everyone. Processes, whether how informal or small or based on culture idioms, are what helps your team service and function. You might not call them a process, someone else might but if you’re building a separate flow, rule, guideline, or process for One, you’re choosing to give them an exception to what the rest…
When the email responses have bounced around five times. When the chats are upward of ten responses and each reply is getting lengthier. When side conversations are starting to splinter off. You might have a different set of thresholds in your mind, but having the threshold is important so you can go “I think we need to get together and talk this out.” Your first response from someone might be – “Oh we don’t need…
It’s the person not declaring themselves as the expert. The person who works on the problem leads the team, stands up, and figures out what is going wrong and how to fix it. They don’t declare themselves expert and would never dare to declare themselves as such. But to everyone else on the team, they are the defacto expert and much more so than the one that is standing up to say “I’m the expert,…