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Hiring Decisions – A contextual journey perspective
How to improve your hiring fits? As managers we are responsible for hiring the best people for our team. We spent hours sifting through resumes, interviewing and training candidates. However, despite our best efforts, the hires don’t always work out and we are stuck...
How to delegate effectively?
A simple approach to breaking down your heavy workload through delegation principles. If you have not been delegating yet, you must have heard numerous times that you have to do it - “You have too much work, you should delegate!”, “Why don’t you delegate it to...
Simple Change/Decision Management framework
How to make complex decision with ease. We are faced with many types of questions and challenges throughout our careers. Some are easy to answer, because we already have made up our own opinions. Others are more difficult and require an approach with more...
Improving Productivity
Help article on how to manage your productivity, incoming workflow and mitigating pesky interruptions. Do you feel like you are always running out of time? Do you feel like you are losing control of your environment? Do projects and tasks land on you and there is no...
Is there life after a bootcamp?
You are on top of the world. Welcome to the software world! After grueling weeks and months, you are finally done with your coding bootcamp. You have built tech that you could not build before and now you should be ready for many jobs in the field. But something is...
What is possible? Are you limiting your future horizons?
Our past experiences can sometimes limit our possibilities for the future. Try to expand your horizons beyond what you already have experienced for fresh perspectives and opportunities. How brings you here? Do you ever feel trapped or held back by invisible barriers...
From Chaos to Structure on the Operations Team
Problem At my previous technology job, I was assigned a team that was malfunctioning and had a reputation of not being able to do much quality work. Nothing would ever come out of it, and when it did, it was incomplete and full of bugs. Engineers were rarely available...
Building and Formalizing a Career Ladder in a Startup
Problem "Most engineers dream of continuously growing and expanding their skills and competencies, but not always do they know how to." "Small startups typically lack career ladders which curtail their growth." "While essential -- due to the small size of their teams...
Become a learning guru and conquer learning anxiety
Every time we face a novel task we might face a learning anxiety. This anxiety makes us feel that perhaps this time we won’t be able to handle the challenge. While this can happen to the best of us, there are techniques that can help get through the block and enjoy...