My journey
I don’t like the sandwich method of receiving feedback. Keep it short and to the point. Talk about my behavior and what it caused. Give me the opportunity to figure out how to fix it moving forward. I wont dwell on why it happened. Energy best spent on the future.
Work related meetings and drag forever if not well run. Can you end them sooner though? Let’s found out.
All customer support teams receive out of scope support requests. What sets a team apart is how they handle them.
How often do you express your gratitude to your peers and direct reports about something they did? In a genuine way. I bet not that often. Go do it now.
Ask if you can give neg/pos feedback. Only go ahead if they say yes. They have to decide if it’s a good time for them to receive feedback. Allow them to say no if they are not in a good state or they need to get work done.
As a people manager of customer support teams for quite some time now I am obsessed with giving feedback. Feedback that’s actionable and can help folks improve and grow. I enjoy reviewing responses and finding opportunities to discuss them. The goal is to raise the quality.
There are problems with customer support that are trivial to fix. I wonder why so many companies get it wrong. We have been conditioned to believe offering great support is extremely difficult. I have found the opposite in my experience.
Writing great job posts is not an easy job. Many companies merge two or more roles into one. That creates unrealistic expectations. Developers learn to exaggerate their qualifications and experience. Everyone ends up in a vicious cycle.
How to fix the implicit functions error Clang is throwing in the latest version of Xcode tools when installing ruby gems that need to build native extensions.
Oh humans how flawed and wonderful you are.
