Posts from Awesome Folks #16

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Emily Webber
June 24, 2022

Hello,

It's Friday again, This week, I've had fun reading house deeds and being baffled by archaic laws, so I'm glad to have these awesome posts to keep me motivated.

This week's posts are heavy on people and culture, including so many relevant topics, like how culture can override everything, thoughts on performance review and remuneration and creating spaces for people to react to terrible news.

I hope you find some interesting tips here.

Have a great day

Emily

People and culture

A Remuneration Method For Flat Organizations

We often get asked how an employee's career progression and professional development is managed in flat organizations. It's a good question because once you remove the multi-layered hierarchy, you also remove the traditional step-by-step career path of “moving up the ladder.

Cautionary Tales – The French Knight’s Guide to Corporate Culture

France 1346: The army of King Philip VI is Europe’s pre-eminent killing machine. It is used to crushing any force stupid enough to oppose it, and now fully expects to annihilate a motley band of English invaders on a field near the village of Crecy.

Annual Performance Reviews Ruin Everything

There is hardly an area of work, psychological safety, growth, collaboration or equity that annual performance reviews don’t undermine. Think I’m exaggerating? Have I got a (long) post for you….

Supporting Your Team When the News Is Terrible

The past few weeks (years?) have been heavy. In recent conversations with managers and teams, we’ve consistently heard people say, “I’m angry. I’m upset. But most of all, I feel helpless.

The Great Resignation Stems from a Great Exploration

“The Great Resignation” keeps growing before our eyes. Every month, the ranks of the resigned swell some more — nearly 57 million Americans quit between January 2021 and February 2022. Many companies seem to be struggling for answers in the face of skyrocketing attrition rates.

Organisations and systems

Relational Power Is the New Currency of Hybrid Work

In the new world of work, managers cannot rely solely on traditional hierarchical power structures. Traditionally, hierarchies have helped formalize the power structures embedded in different roles within an organization.

Setting and measuring goals

7 Questions to Craft the Perfect Product Story

Ideas are like belly buttons. Everybody has at least one. When it comes to building new products, features or services we all believe we have good ideas.

The difficult teenage years: setting your tech strategy after the launch

This was an updated version of my talk from Continous Lifecycle London in 2019. It was planned to include learnings one year on, but the original LeadingEng was scheduled for summer 2020, so by the time we had the conference, I was able to include learnings three years on from setting the strategy.

Tools and approaches for teams

How to measure teams’ performance & success?

Hope you’ll find this article helpful if you’re dealing with this topic too — either setting up new goals with your team/company or changing existing ones as they’re not useful to you. Performance doesn’t mean success.

Daily standups are a “daily build” to address drift in team product development

When you attempt to work with others to develop a product, you will need to deal with drift. Drift in shared understanding generates confusion, mistakes, and generally a bad working experience.

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