Small doings
Up and down work year but I learnt a lot made good bank, have some new good references and finished year as a project manager so walk it off.
Back to the doings. It starts with the reading list:
The language of leadership
Connect First
The business of friendship
NLP for business analysts
Crucial conversations
Inspiring Remote Tech Teams
Rapport
Better small talk
Influence 2021 ed
A bit of a planned self upgrade these hols which is why the heavy reading list. 2021 was upping my awareness and avoiding obvious mistakes. I made over 150k in the rough and tumble IT contracting game during covid so good enough. 2022 is about applying that knowledge to make a step change. Normally I d be off visiting family overseas but currently lockdown so I have a week to dedicate. The objectives are to:
- Level up my realtime PD skills by 10%
- Improve my presentation delivery and add in more leadership language
- Build a process and resource library I can add on to keep improving
- TBH rather than reading more going to be a ruthlessly time boxed process of:
Skimming looking for:
- Collaborative framing. I want to to make this my reflex response as there s no downside
- One default thing. Short multipurpose phrases that make good quick responses under fire. (Be the guy who practiced one punch 10,000 times)
- Interesting leadership language. I ve got close to 100 hours of meetings recorded with groups of managers collaborating, supporting and competing. More than enough collecting! Time for doing.
- Cross checking the above against my north star (PU of course)
Then it become input for my practice scripts
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- One default thing. Short multipurpose phrases that make good quick responses under fire. (Be the guy who practiced one punch 10,000 times)
I like this a lot.
Might be a great exercise to walk people through.
Happy to read if you want to share them once you have them.
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And so it begins....
I've developed the situational/triggers shell this morning I'll populate with these scripts. Standard people challenges in a Project lifecycle of course since that's my work world.
Since I'm an agile guy I set my highest value and timebox it. Now its practice and habit over content so its making role play scripts and the timebox is a minimum of 3 a day 5 days a week - should give me 30 by end of holidays.
While I'm doing that I'm listening to Language of Leadership and pecking away at notes for a review for TPM. Lucio deserves a Xmas present.
I bought a tomato timer that helps me with timeboxing. I realised the single-turn helps me use the timer frequently.
I think that pomodoro guy is a genius. Who would have thought you could have filled up a whole book with work in chunks. Its like the kanban guys - Make tasks visible, limit WIP (there you go that's the kanban course)
Phew - day 1 scripts done:
- Red flag attack on value of your role - Agile doesn’t have project managers
- Amber social scalping - Idiot saying you're boasting at a social event
- Amber social scalping and tasking - I'm more on the business side
Quote from Transitioned on December 18, 2021, 5:01 amI think that pomodoro guy is a genius. Who would have thought you could have filled up a whole book with work in chunks. Its like the kanban guys - Make tasks visible, limit WIP (there you go that's the kanban course)
He's a genius indeed :).
It looks like we have a similar approach.
I am using a paper kanban with my tomato timer:
(Backlog is at the back of the paper card)
(The mental health is some random, online event that I may skip)
I worked with Trello and Jira for team settings before.
- Red flag attack on value of your role - Agile doesn’t have project managers
LOL this is so ridiculous even though someone also used this attack on me.
I wanted to say
Him: Agile doesn’t have project managers
Me: You want a nightclub?
Something to say "you want everyone to dance to their own tune?"
Quote from Transitioned on December 18, 2021, 3:01 amWhile I'm doing that I'm listening to Language of Leadership and pecking away at notes for a review for TPM. Lucio deserves a Xmas present.
Daaamn :D.
Would love to read that one indeed 🙂
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Had a few days off at beach, social shopping etc. Now back to it.
First a little backfill. Typing up some notebooks full of 'magic words' and work tips of all sorts. Then back to the script mines.