The Daily Standup

10 Reasons Why Every Leader Should Have a 'How To Work With Me Document'

1. Great Tool For Self-Reflection
2. Clarity For Everyone
3. Especially Useful for Remote or Distributed Teams
4. A Living, Breathing Document
5. Builds Trust and Encourages Feedback
6. reduces Friction and Conflict
7. Enables Faster Decision Making
8. Improves Team Alignment
9. Creates Accountability
10. Reference For Iteration

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This episode was inspired by an email I received from Mike Cohn. It is my turn to challenge you.. "Hi, I’m Joel, and I'll be your server tonight.”
I was out to dinner last week, and that was how the waiter introduced himself. Actually, he wasn’t our waiter. As he’d said, he was to be our server.
A small distinction perhaps, but as a writer I think words are important. The difference here struck me for some reason that night.
Throughout the meal, Joel did serve us. He had help with things like carrying plates from the kitchen and filling the wine and water glasses. But he was clearly interested in serving.
He recommended wines, subtly steered us away from some menu choices (“I prefer our fish dishes”), encouraged splitting one of the salads but ordering two appetizer choices, and did everything he could to ensure we had a great meal.
As the year winds down and I think about the emails I’ll send you next year, the YouTube videos I’ll create, the blog posts I’ll write, and the new courses I’ll create, I want to make sure I am serving you.
 

• What topics would you most like to hear from me about next year?
• Are there specific questions you’d like addressed?

Please comment below and let me know. I can’t bring you an appetizer or recommend a good Pinot to pair with your next retrospective, but I can promise to address topics that will help you succeed with agile.
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Is AI Coming to Take My Job In 2025?
The short answer is... NO! However, if you are not doing all you can to protect what you have by increasing your knowledge of AI, that answer crtainly will change.
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Make a Difference In The Lives of Others

1. Share knowledge or expertise
2. Volunteer your time
3. Advocate for positive change
4. Invest in relationships
5. Give financially (if possible)
6. Focus on daily acts of kindness
7. Build a legacy
8. Use your platform for good
9. Leverage your network
10. Reflect and adapt

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3 Powerful Phrases That Give Others a Chance To Speak:

1. Say more about that...
2. And what else...
3. Help me understand...

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10 Tips To Reduce Communication Gaps at Work

1. When we don’t make an effort to communicate well, a lot of time is wasted in resolving issues that creep up due to misalignment, confusion, and expectation mismatch.
2. Communication can be less chaotic when everyone commits to resolving differences proactively instead of relying on others.
3. Seek alignment on priorities and agree on a common measure of success. Success is more likely when everyone works on shared goals.
4. Speaking up is important to communicate your ideas and opinions, but you shouldn’t refrain from listening to others. Communication isn’t a one-way street. Treat it as a two-sided road.
5. Expecting others to register key information by saying it once is a big mistake. Unless you repeat it multiple times, it will not get the time and attention it deserves.
6. Good questions have the power to unlock creative thinking and surface out hidden problems. Use every opportunity to explore your curiosity by asking questions.
7. Assumptions, when not validated, can lead to gaps in expectations. Avoid frustration, angst, and anxiety by seeking alignment upfront.
8. Blaming, shaming, and complaining do not solve problems. Instead of pointing fingers, identify what caused these communication gaps and how you can avoid them in the future.
9. Avoiding conflicts or delaying them makes the situation worse. Step out of your comfort zone and embrace the discomfort.
10. Ego kills a conversation. Watch it carefully and deny it the power to guide your thinking or how you communicate and collaborate with others.

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Make Remote Work More Human - The Meetings For what it’s worth, I don’t think that remote work sucks. I think remote work is great. I am a fan. Please, never make me go back to an office. But yeah, Westenberg has a point — the way we design for remote work often forgets that we are human people with bodies and brains and not just work-input-cogs. We work on machines; we are not the machines. How to connect with AgileDad: - [website] https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram] https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/ - [facebook] https://www.facebook.com/RealAgileDad/ - [Linkedin] https://www.linkedin.com/in/leehenson/

Why Scrum Product Owner Certifications ARE Worth It.. Are you ONLY learning what the book says? Or are you really learning practical application of what the book says? How to connect with AgileDad: - [website] https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram] https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/ - [facebook] https://www.facebook.com/RealAgileDad/ - [Linkedin] https://www.linkedin.com/in/leehenson/

Be the Eagle and Not the Duck! Which are you? The eagle or the duck? How to connect with AgileDad: - [website] https://www.agiledad.com/ - [instagram] https://www.instagram.com/agile_coach/ - [facebook] https://www.facebook.com/RealAgileDad/ - [Linkedin] https://www.linkedin.com/in/leehenson/

7 Tips To Scale Without Embracing an Overly Complicated Framework:

1. Focus on continual improvement
2. Limit work in progress
3. One large demo / review
4. Synchronize short iterations
5. One product backlog with one goal
6. Align on outcomes not output
7. Form truly autonomous teams

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