How to use mentoring to grow and stabilize your team
Mentorship is essential to any environment and can be an extremely effective tool for you and your team. Everyone talks about mentorship, but few explain how it benefits managers, their teams, and your delivery.
Staffing is how you build your team for your delivery.
There are many business-specific details, but you'll need people and teams to help accomplish your goals. Here's a sample of what you should consider in your staffing plan: * How many folks of a given skill set and experience do you need? * Where do you need them?
Staff to your strengths
Find the thing that excites your people. Know your folk's hobbies and interests. It's easy to think that hobbies don't have a place at work, but that's short-sighted. We had a hardcore cyclist - he talked about cycling, knew all the excellent
How to control the rumor mill
I live in a small town not that far from Denver, Colorado. We're about 7,300 feet in elevation and surrounded by pine trees. Part of living in this environment is performing constant wildfire mitigation. For people who don't deal with wildfires, they're something
Create Repeatable Success
Every manager needs a process. You could go with yelling at people, but that doesn't scale, and it also is a terrible way to manage. You need to understand and use a process to create repeatable success that you can build on in your career at the firm.
What is headcount?
Headcount is the number of people you have on staff or are hiring. For example: * "What's your headcount?” means how many people you have on your team. * "How much headcount do you have left to hire?” - this is the number of positions left to fill,
Acknowledge who made the decision
I spoke with a relatively new manager the other day, and I was struck by the tone in their conversation. For example, they said things like, “This team is doing a good job” or “A decision was made to do this on the team.” I stopped them and asked who
What 'soft skill' activity shaped you the most?
Attending my daughter's concert made me rethink the value of such activities. Growing up in the Midwest, I played football and thought other soft skills events or clubs (drama, debate, etc.) weren’t cool. Time and experience reveal the value now. Music or Drama Drama, for instance, teaches
Setting up a trade show booth
I’ve attended many trade shows in my career. Small ones like local job fairs (which can be hit and miss depending on how well it’s marketed) or Chamber of Commerce stuff (those don’t usually generate revenue for a company, but they’re good for local networking). I’
