Category Archives: Manager

Coaching Technical Teams

Coaching is a very important part of a manager/leader’s role, as it affects the morale, productivity and long term success of the team. Coaching simply involves, Empowering teams to tackle problems and come up with solutions on their own Encouraging risk taking and learning from their mistakes. Providing skills training and mentoring individuals to develop […]

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Team Goals

Goals built around a common purpose help teams become more cohesive and collaborative. Goal setting can be challenging, both in terms of identifying and then marking progress. I generally start the year, by bringing the team together for a team meeting to, set collective team goals, by first, Reviewing the company goals for the year […]

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Budgets

Coming up with the appropriate project and team budgets for the upcoming year can be challenging and time consuming. Determining resource needs on new projects can be daunting, particularly if you still have elements of the plan to be worked out. It is hard to anticipate unexpected needs that might arise in the later part […]

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Fun at work

Having some fun at work is important. Even as teams work late nights to make deadlines or try to achieve the different organization and personal goals, it is important that they pause for some rest and relaxation. This builds team camaraderie, reduces stress and ultimately does improve productivity and employee retention. We have had various […]

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