Empathy Should happiness be a goal at work? Your job is what you make it. Go into it with a bad attitude, and that will be reflected back to you. Be positive, help others and solve problems together and you'
Culture Should you really encourage playing games at work? Think back to the companies that you've worked for; that you loved. Those that made you happy. Those jobs that you couldn't wait to get to after waking up.
Team Where/When should you make your team work? In the software industry it seems very common nowadays to assume you'll allow your team to work flexible hours and perhaps work-from-home. Or is that a myth? On the other side
Team Taking notes in your one-on-ones - it's tricky You should always take notes in your one-on-ones with the team, but how you do that is a tricky question to answer. Do your brain a favor Just the act of taking notes
Team Why it's critical you take new hires to lunch - a checklist Do you remember your first day at your company? Even the most confident of us were wondering what to do and who to meet. Hopefully there is a wonderful onboarding process to walk
Team It's ok to admit you're wrong As I was writing Programmers really need open floor plans [https://www.tellthemeverything.com/programmers-really-need-open-floor-plans/] I found myself thinking about a story that I had been confidently telling for years as an example
Environment Programmers really need open floor plans As soon as Joel Spolsky talked at GeekWire Summit [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1V8OUOb-Hw] recently, Twitter lit up with articles like Programmers really hate open floor plans [http://qz.com/806583/
Communication Helping Departments work together As well as Helping Engineering teams work together [https://www.tellthemeverything.com/helping-teams-work-together/] you'll also review the way departments interact at a higher level. Soon after meeting your team [https://www.
Communication Helping Engineering teams work together Although the Engineering department is our domain, we do not sit in isolation. We simply can't do our job without many interactions with other teams or departments. Encourage communication I'
Culture Publish an Engineering weekly newsletter As soon as you can, start sending a weekly newsletter to the Engineering team. And by 'as soon as you can', I mean start this week. > The aim is to
Team Identifying personalities on your Engineering team One of the first tasks for you to do as Director of Engineering is to quickly identify the personality types of your team members. One-on-ones [https://www.tellthemeverything.com/one-on-ones/] is a perfect
Culture Team too big for one-on-ones? I received some great feedback about One-on-Ones with your team [https://www.tellthemeverything.com/one-on-ones/] today. In that article I said that: > At some number of people - probably between 20 and
Culture One-on-Ones with your team After your team introduction, one-on-one's are the next item on your agenda. They are the most important part of your job. Through one-on-ones you will find the true story behind the
