Plus: Placing Pieces in our Puzzling Teams; Simplified Sprint Zeros; Receiving Feedback
Plus: Finding, coaching, and managing new leads; Making (and unmaking) hard decisions; Updating senior executives; and Networking at conferences.
Plus: Operational discussions in one-on-ones; don't skimp on alignment; helping introverts in meetings; managing up is essential (and good, actually)
Plus: Team training and delegation as part of the WGA strike demands; asking about career goals in the first 1:1; ideal team sizes; using assertiveness to disarm conflicts
Plus: Why candour is hard; Hybrid work and its challenges
Plus: Hard conversations mean caring; Delegation; Manage your top performers; Team feedback; The problem is more interesting than the solution; Secure resources by talking to people; Learn to say no
Plus: Asynchronous Work Report; Minimum Viable Process; Work For Yourself First; Read the Room
Plus: Recognizing and rewarding team members; Hiring playbook; Dealing with know-it-all peers; Why do they ignore my amazing documentation
Plus: The art of delegation; being a thermostat not a thermometer; steps to strategy; being more collaborative when you just want to do all the deciding yourself
Plus: 1:1 questions for underperforming team members; team expectations should be tradeoffs; the problem might not be with our team, it might be us; better LinkedIn profiles
Plus: Bing for Practicing Feedback; Don't leave hard conversations too long
