Category: Recommended Reading
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Recommended Reading – December 2018
I’ve posted the recommended reading blogs for one year now. It was a little experiment and I’ve enjoyed putting my thoughts to a few blogs but this will be my last for now. Here are posts from December that I recommend: The Best Leaders Are Helpful Being helpful to teams can be an overlooked priority…
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Recommended Reading – November 2018
Here are a few blogs I recommend reading from this month… The Ultimate Workplace Praise Guide: How to be More Positive at Work and Give More Praise to Your Team “Positivity is a choice.” If a manager is always complaining and downbeat how do you think the team will feel? How a manager acts reflects…
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Recommended Reading – October 2018
Here are a few blogs I recommend reading from this month… On Leadership: Why building trust is the core of every successful team “Trust is the foundation of every great, high-performing team.” Great post on why trust and relationships are so important and how to build them. From the way your teams interact can you…
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Recommended Reading – September 2018
Here are a few blogs I recommend reading from this month… 6 tips to be a better manager in the most common situations you’ll face Asking for feedback from people has never resulted in too much success for me, a good tip is to “Ask for advice instead of feedback.” I do think that saying…
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Recommended Reading – August 2018
Here are a few blogs I recommend reading from this month… Maslow on Management Challenging blog looking into Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Motivation. “The famous Golden Rule, to do unto others as you would have them do unto you, is a failure of empathy.” Leaders of a team have the responsibility to meeting each person…
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Recommended Reading – July 2018
Some blogs I recommend reading from this month… How to Manage an Employee Who’s Having a Personal Crisis Whether we like it or not people in our teams will go through difficult times, this covers good points for supporting those people in the right way. The 4 questions you should stop asking during your one-on-one…
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Recommended Reading – June 2018
Some blogs I recommend reading from this month… What to do (and not do) during your first 2 weeks as a new manager Good advice for new managers, some are good reminders even for the more experienced. Saying “I don’t know” is a sign of humility and can be used throughout a career. How to…
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Recommended Reading – May 2018
Some blogs I recommend reading this month… 7 Traits That Make a Great Software Developer There are many “great developer trait” lists and I don’t think there is anything new here. I’ve included the link because it’s important for leaders to guide and coach each developer that directly reports to you on these traits. You…
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Recommended Reading – April 2018
Some blogs I recommend reading this month… The Two Traits of the Best Problem-Solving Teams Having teams that are cognitively diverse that also have psychological safety are probably on most leaders’ wish list. It is the leaders and their behaviour that are key to this. Talk: Building Great Engineer Cultures from 0 to Scale Fast-paced…