What I’ve been noticing and disliking more and more lately:
All the whitewashing and toxic positivity!
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Love it, Change it or Leave it
The picture shows a CleanUpBag from LOWA GmbH that I once won in a promo from LOWA including the litter that I found (and collected) on a mountain hike. The reactions on social media were either “thank you” or anger at the people who leave the litter on the trails.
And I can understand those who feel anger! I used to feel the same way!
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Audio and Video Quality in Online Meetings DOES matter
We’ve all been there – endless online meetings, squinting at grainy screens, wondering if our colleagues are even awake. Seriously, how many online meeting does it take to realize that audio and video quality matter more than we want to admit?
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Why we need Feedback on the Feedback
“Feedback is important!” – We’ve all heard this before. It’s an old adage.
I guess we also agree that feedback without any following actions is not only useless but demotivating. People will learn very quickly that “giving Feedback” is obviously useless and thus will not give feedback anymore. – End of Feedback culture.
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The most important things about dailies …
… and what you’ve never read about them:
So, one of the most important reasons (besides the buzzword stuff), for me, is that I hear my colleagues. Not just WHAT they say, but HOW they say it.
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HomeOffice- vs Office-Discussion gone Wrong
I just read an article on t3n about reasons to be in the office and reasons to stay in the HomeOffice. It’s an interesting read, just at one point I could have screamed (maybe I even did)! 🤦♂️
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The 3 pillars of transformation & change
You can talk a lot about agility and transformation etc. – I believe there are 3 basic pillars and EVERYONE can contribute to “change”:
- People who dare to speak up
- People who listen to it
- People who are willing to change
Those three tings alone are already a turbo for many small things that are simply super boring in the masses.
But also the other way round: if one of the three points is missing, save the energy – it won’t be successful.
The bonus is public praise for everyone involved in the project (project participants != only project managers) – but let’s start with the basics ;-)
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Making the Best of a Bad Presentation Experience
Recently, I attended a conference and sat through a particularly bad presentation. I was tempted to leave, but my colleague insisted we stay until the end. So I somehow had to make the best out of it. This gave me the opportunity to analyze what made the presentation so ineffective and “bad” for me (maybe it was interesting for other people, I just didn’t like it.
So I regarded it as a case study to probably improve my own presentations.
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Good Conference Talks aren’t just Success Stories
Recently, my colleagues and I attended the World of Data conference. (The conference is an event in the data and analytics industry, where latest trends, technologies etc are presented in workshops and talks/presentations. It’s pretty nice to be honest!)
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An advantage of remote interviews
There have been plenty of articles and comments about the (dis)advantages of home office vs in-office scenarios over the past two years. One critical aspect of home-office is definitely about creating a personal relationship with people that you never meet in person.
One situation where a personal relationship is quite important is an interview with candidates (be it internal or external). Besides the technical expertise you also want to know whether or not the candidate is a fit for the team. In the past 2+ years, we interviewed dozens of people for positions in the team. I say “we” because we usually are 2-3 internals holding different positions in the team (dev, ops, product owner, …) interviewing the new candidate. And in the past 2+ years we did all those interviews remotely via video-conferencing.
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