Leadership… Showing Appreciation – Leadership by Example 9 Jul 20182 Dec 2018 Thank people for their work, Celebrate the wins, show appreciation during failure "Recognition is largely about behavior. Appreciation focuses on performance plus the employee's value as a person. Recognition is…
Change Management… Being Transparent – Leadership by Example 9 Jul 20182 Dec 2018 Share information, be proactive, focus on messaging and who knows the plan “Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.” — Brené Brown, Daring Greatly There's nothing worse, than the feeling that leaders…
Leadership… Showing Empathy – Leadership by Example 9 Jul 201812 Feb 2019 Pay attention, be vulnerable, respond/acknowledge and care for others “Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”— Theodore Roosevelt We are not robots or even…
Leadership… Being Authentic – Leadership by Example 9 Jul 20184 Jun 2019 You are human, they are human, share life, its joys and horrors “Authentic Leaders are not afraid to show emotion and vulnerability as they share in the challenges with their…
Leadership… Approachability – Leadership by Example 9 Jul 20182 Dec 2018 Make it safe to approach you, give time to be approached, be present and follow up “Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the…
Communcation… Leadership by Example 19 Mar 20182 Dec 2018 This blog post is a continuation from a previous one called Leading Leaders "We must be the change we wish to see in the world" Mahatma Gandhi Everything you do…
growth… Eric Brooke Strength Finders Feb 2018 12 Feb 20182 Dec 2018 So as part of a team building exercise I redid my Strength Finders 2.0. It had changed. Here is my previous one Whilst three strengths were the same (in bold),…
Communcation… Leading leaders 21 Jan 201819 Mar 2019 Maybe you are a Director, a Head of X or a Vice President, and you now own a department or multiple teams. Moving from a front line leader i.e managing Individual…
Career Management… Surviving a Technical Interview 23 Nov 201516 Jan 2018 Over my career as a software something, I have had a bunch of technical interviews. Some I have done well in and some I have not. The first part of this…
Change Management… Leading software engineers 14 Apr 201515 Feb 2019 A friend (non technical) recently asked me how I lead my dev team, he had led product and marketing before, so I have attempted to focus on the differences, that…
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