Delegating is giving one of your current responsibilities to someone else. Then they have the authority and are responsible for it. Note that Assigning is different - it’s a normal part of the job. Here I discuss the case of delegating to your direct report, a.k.a “direct”. Why? You’ve been doing…

How to stay focused on bettering future behaviors — WIIFM (what’s in it for me). We’ll discuss this, and you will see how simple and quick it is to give feedback. Here “directs” is short for “direct reports.” The following is based on the podcast, “Manager Tools,” which has researched real workplaces with thousands of managers and directs for…

Observations Time management is so important because time is a resource we can never have back. Actually, time does not need to be managed, it continues very well without us. We can only manage ourselves, our priorities. We usually have more work than time to complete it, which means, that every…

A lot has been said about the famous 1:1 meeting, and still many managers have very different views on what it is and how to do it. It’s one of those “management things” that are rarely taught, and new managers often blindly copy what their manager did with them. Before…

I’ve recently heard a very senior technical leader say that leaders are born that way, and it is not something that can be taught or practiced. I held this belief for many years, and it suppressed my career aspirations, until I seriously started reading about the topic, and realized the…

Many companies have values, which they have decided upon. In some companies they were decided upon by the founders even before starting the company, in others they decided to have them when the company reached a certain size and it got more and more noticeable that different parts have different…

OKRs are Objectives and Key Results. A goal-setting framework for defining and tracking objectives and their outcomes. They define strategic directions through setting inspirational goals, to be achieved through concrete, time-bound measurable results. Primarily used for focusing the whole company on the goals, with the added value of visibility. It’s…

As managers and leaders we must continuously invest in learning. While books recommendations are easily found and shared between professionals and friends, like on goodreads, when it comes to podcasts I didn’t come across a similar way. …

The only worse thing than an open position is having it filled with the wrong person, a.k.a “It’s better to have a hole than an asshole in your team”. There is a very simple technique to excel interviewing for culture fit, like a small secret weapon. Let’s start with the whole process It is advised that…