7 leadership lessons from coaching 200 tech teams

Hey ALTers, Hari Here ??

The sun is shining in my face and I can barely see my screen as I sit in my temp kitchen (I'm in an Airbnb during a renovation of my apartment).

But I wanted to share something with you - 7 lessons for creating powerful tech teams.

Last week I did a keynote speech where I squeezed the last 12 years of my professional experience into a 30-min talk.

I reused many of the illustrations from the comic and I'm really proud of the outcome - both as slides and content.

With my gang, we'll probably expand this talk and put it somehow on Soft Skills Pills, but I wanted to share it with you now. As a token of appreciation for your support here ??

?? If you want the in-depth version, please comment (or write back if you read this in your email) and I'll add you to our list of people & organizations who are interested. We might include it in our future leadership program or as a standalone version.

7 lessons for building powerful tech teams & organizations

These are 7 aspects I've seen that separate the great teams from the average ones:

1. Teams that embrace disagreements & talk about the tough issues create trust & psychological safety
2. Teams that structure their communication have more engaged people?
3. Teams that have a clear joint decision-making process are fast
4. Teams that value & use differences get better results
5. Organizations that manage the expectation gaps are aligned
6. Organizations that are open to external input grow & evolve
7. Organizations that have a leadership team move quickly in one direction

Here's one new illustration I did for number 6:

The comic that summarizes the summary ??

What great teams & orgs do differently is they focus on the invisible - the human connections, the trust, the psychological safety. And then, they get results.

I tried to illustrate this concept in A Leader's Tale (Season 3, Episode 1)

By the way, Vasi will kill me if I don't give you this ??

This weekend I joked (but it's no joke! ??) that I have to cover for Vasi in our marketing efforts as she's on vacation.

Long story short - we give you 68% off for two of our soft skills pills until June 5th. These 2 pills are useful & fun and are great activities to do with your teammates after work.

Grab them now for just the price of a pizza.

Hari... still sitting in the kitchen, waiting for the washing machine to finish with the laundry ??

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