Category: Technology
In case you haven’t noticed, a lot of my posts recently have been using gist. It’s an awesome tool that’s freely available which allows you to write snippets of code in a variety of languages.
Your team has been in the Learning stage and it’s heading into the Self-Organizing stage. Team members have learned the skills necessary to become self-organizing now, and everything gets done whether you’re there or not. This is where a lot of people get scared. What good am I as a lead if I’m not needed anymore? Couldn’t my higher ups just fire me and let the team do it’s thing?
So you’re team now has time to learn, and some of them (if not all), are taking advantage of that. How do you get them to be self-organizing? That’s where you start pushing responsibilities onto your team.
So how do you know if your team is in choas? Actually, most teams are in the chaos stage. Learning to identify when a team has gotten into chaos isn’t really that hard if you follow some simple guidelines, though.
I received an email this morning regarding an “urgent” position that needed to be filled. I get these all the time, but what really struck a cord with me was the last part of the email where the recruiter actually wanted me to fill out all my information in an HTML form that he put into the email.
