Sunday, February 2, 2025

Become Better Manager

 Communication: Clear, empathetic dialogue in 1:1s and team meetings.


    As a manager it is important to focusing on building good communications with team member. Rather than focus on "I" transitions to "We". In a collaborations this is like "nurturing others to succeed".

    Communications skills is mandatory such as:

        1. Active listening: conscious effort to listen more than speak, understand team concern and fully prepare with solutions. 

        2. Empathy: the ability to share and understand feelings of others.

        3. clear messaging: Be Transparent about goals, challenges, and expectations. 

        4. diversity awareness: Every individual is unique and have personality traits, so treat it correctly according their characteristics.

    About the 1:1s Meetings

    1:1 Meetings is important because it can help manager to understand individual goals, challenge, and motivation on of team member. Don't forget know a little bit of life to make it become understand about the motivations of team member

Delegation: Trusting teams to own tasks while providing support.

    As a Manager its important to know how to delegate works effectively. Assign the task based on individual growth or potential. Remember to put the context not instructions including why its matter, etc. and see the task to iterate and solved.
    
    Avoid micromanaging and trust team members.

Conflict Resolution: Addressing tensions early and fostering psychological safety.

Handle conflict resolution effectively is critical in maintaining healthy and positive environment. 

How to do it:

1. Addressing the sign early

This could be sarcasm in conversation or meetings,withdrawal in collaborations, or repeated disagreements over some or look a like issues.

2. Intervene Quickly

    - Private 1:1 meetings: Talk privately to understand their perspective
    - Facilitate a mediated discussions: Focus in resolve the issues and alignment of the conflict. find the common shared goals and find the agreement and understanding  

Strategic Thinking: Prioritizing high-impact work and aligning with company objectives.

    Strategic Thinking is focused on high impact work that align with company objectives, goal, or OKR.

    What's difficult is ti define the "High Impact Work" it can be to widen or unfocused. The best method is to always do the Formula:

                
    High Impact work = Value x Effort Required 


    The common method is use:

    MoSCoW Method: Label work as Must-have, Should-have, Could-have, or Won’t-have.

    Eisenhower Matrix: Categorize tasks as Urgent/Important, Important/Not Urgent, etc.


Remote/Hybrid Management: Building trust and collaboration in distributed teams.


    Managing remote or hybrid teams is unique because it requires intentionality to overcome distance, time, and lack of face-to-face interaction.

    Some point that need to set is:

  1. Set Clear Expectations and Terms Between Team Members

    - Set define working hours, communications rules (channels, response time, idling notifications)
    - Turn in cameras if possible to increase relationship, trusting,
    - Host virtual hours for informal chats

  2. Focus on Outcome not Activity

    Focus on deliverables (e.g., “Ship Feature Y by Friday”) monitoring the parameters like daily meeting or burndown charts.

  3. Using Tools to remove redundant activity

    - Record meeting,
    - Record tutorial such as on boarding, set up projects.
    - Use collaborative docs for document
    - Build Wiki like for documentations


  4. Clarify Roles and Ownership

    Remember to always clarify "who is who in charge and flow of collaborations". such as A will do API contract from BE, B in FE will consume it and build interface and unit testing based on api contract

  5. Summaries Documentations

    To avoid miss communication or miss interpretation always create document agreement like MOM or summary and share it to every one involve
     
  6.  Create Bonding Rituals
    - Host monthly virtual coffee chats or mini games.
    - Create spotify playlist for team member
    - Create a sharing sessions for bonding and participations



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