Subscribe
Sign in
Home
One-on-ones
Feedback
Archive
About
Latest
Top
Discussions
#176 - Scientific Systems are Uncertain; Human Systems are Ambiguous
Plus: Feedback is for behaviour change, not self-expression; trust lets you see reality; change is risky, and makes things worse before improving them…
Sep 22
Share this post
Manager, Ph.D.
#176 - Scientific Systems are Uncertain; Human Systems are Ambiguous
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
August 2024
From the Archives #139 - Taking on a New Responsibility
Plus: Setting direction; introverted leaders; Software processes and variants
Aug 26
1
Share this post
Manager, Ph.D.
From the Archives #139 - Taking on a New Responsibility
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
From The Archives - #128 - Management 101 = individuals; 201 = the team
Plus: Long- and short-lived Group dynamics; The leaders journal
Aug 12
Share this post
Manager, Ph.D.
From The Archives - #128 - Management 101 = individuals; 201 = the team
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
July 2024
From The Archives: #111 - The Complete Intern Checklist
Plus: Team member career conversations; PR pushback by race/gender; Working with your manager; Writing up incidents and non-incidents
Jul 30
Share this post
Manager, Ph.D.
From The Archives: #111 - The Complete Intern Checklist
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
From the Archives: #60 - Quarterly goal setting & review sessions
Plus: The resilience of mixed-seniority teams; Gaining mentors; Product manager skills; Postmortems from scratch
Jul 15
1
Share this post
Manager, Ph.D.
From the Archives: #60 - Quarterly goal setting & review sessions
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
June 2024
From The Archives: #57 - Performance communication is expectations communication
Plus: Thoughts on management; Defining meaningful key results
Jun 30
Share this post
Manager, Ph.D.
From The Archives: #57 - Performance communication is expectations communication
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
#175 - Helping Your Team Succeed Without You
Plus: Giving the right amount of context; Effective feedback nudges behaviour; We need respectful disagreement; Project management mistakes; Proposing…
Jun 9
Share this post
Manager, Ph.D.
#175 - Helping Your Team Succeed Without You
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
May 2024
#174 - Action Brings Clarity
Plus: Praise-to-criticism ratio (should be high!); Emotional signposting; How to announce team departures; The goal of a strategy is to change a team's…
May 28
1
Share this post
Manager, Ph.D.
#174 - Action Brings Clarity
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
#173 - Are you accomplishing things, or are you just busy?
Plus: Giving feedback; Coaching skills at work; The infinite hows; First, understand; and Stop people pleasing.
May 13
Share this post
Manager, Ph.D.
#173 - Are you accomplishing things, or are you just busy?
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
April 2024
#172 - Individual Productivity is Probably The Wrong Thing To Be Managing
Plus: Coaching the team member towards deciding; unlocking team performance; Decision transparency for stakeholders; Paying attention to the next larger…
Apr 28
Share this post
Manager, Ph.D.
#172 - Individual Productivity is Probably The Wrong Thing To Be Managing
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
#171 - Yes, Managing Up (and Sideways, and Diagonally) is Part Of Your Job
Plus: Ladder of leadership; Hidden opportunity in feedback; Good directive work phrases; Announcing departures; Get it done; Managing and communicating…
Apr 14
1
Share this post
Manager, Ph.D.
#171 - Yes, Managing Up (and Sideways, and Diagonally) is Part Of Your Job
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
1
#170 - Imposter Syndrome, Switching Fields, and Becoming a Manager
Plus: Getting good with AI to improve human communication skills; agile personal development plans; Low morale? Try improving safety; Should you take on…
Apr 1
1
Share this post
Manager, Ph.D.
#170 - Imposter Syndrome, Switching Fields, and Becoming a Manager
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
1
Share
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts
