How often do you check-in with your team? I don’t mean a sprint meeting, I mean an actual check-in? We put a lot of focus on this during the pandemic, but are you still doing it? Why not? No time, no love for the team? If you’re not checking in with your team, how do you know how they are doing? Do you know how they are doing? You probably don’t, and if you don’t,…
Cars shift. If you’re driving standard, it’s a more pronounced shift, you need to initiate it, otherwise, the engine keeps revving. The persistent revving of the engine is the cue for you to know when to shift, you know by the sound that it can’t maintain its push unless you shift to a higher gear. Knowing when to shift, either yourself or your team is critical to growth and not as simple to determine as…
If you don’t have a team, get a team. A team can be anyone, random coworkers, related coworkers, family, or whatever. But get a team. And when you don’t know the answer. You ask the team, you leverage their skills and abilities in what you are trying to accomplish. That’s what they are there for, to help and support you. So get a team.
Keep it simple, lay out the tasks, group them together, set the delivery dates. Don’t give into the chaos of everything being everywhere all the time. Don’t give into the chaos that others have and worry about what could, might, or should be. Work the problem, and deliver the problem, one task at a time. Your job might not have originally been part of bringing them online and refocusing the team, but now it is. …
The easy way is to put a popup in someone’s face after they have completed working on a task. You probably won’t get the best response (especially if the task they just completed didn’t work the way they expected). It’s also not best to ask immediately after they log in (they did after all just start working and probably haven’t got to anything). Also, don’t call them from some random 800 number, everyone ignores those…