Focus feedback time ⏲️

It's Friday and today I want to talk about teamwork. The tea in petals. So yesterday we spent some time, some dedicated time getting feedback from each other. Now, we know this is always a hard thing to get rides. When you come up for those sort of probation or quarterly reviews or annual reviews, tell me how I'm doing. Tell me what I could do better. You send out the email or you send a message, people open a tab maybe, and they never get around to it. Then you have the review, you've got very little feedback to go on and you're like, I don't know what I need to do. So what I did yesterday, I blocked out an hour in a teams calendar. I sent out a link to a Microsoft form. Each individual had their own section with two questions, what am I doing? Well, what could I do better? And the teams sat down and literally just spent time on that form. It was a little bit awkward. The social interactions, you know, we were just all on a video call, not really talking, typing away. But they all really appreciated having that blocked out hour from typical meetings or whatever the main job was going to be for the day to really focus on the feedback mechanism. The interesting topic was, what do I put about people that I've not really worked with before now? My answer to that was find time. Because if you don't know how to provide feedback to your team members who maybe don't have the same competency as you, do something completely different, or you don't get to interact with them much, why not arrange a session to talk about what they do in their day job? Or shadow them or pair with them, or just understand what their day job is. So this was my little bit of teamwork advice to people that don't really have much feedback for each other. Just make the time to find out what they're good at. That's enough from this week. I'll be back next week with more title snapshots and talking a bit more about the app that we're going to be launching very, very soon.