I find a lot of these points to be helpful especially when joining a new field. From my experiences (which are mostly in tech), the most helpful thing I did was simply to write things down. There...
I find a lot of these points to be helpful especially when joining a new field.
From my experiences (which are mostly in tech), the most helpful thing I did was simply to write things down. There have been so many times where colleagues that are much more talented than me have fixed issues and gone on to forget about them entirely. A few months later, a similar issue would pop up again and we would struggle to remember what exactly it was that we did to solve it. In most cases, I like to do the grunt work of writing minutes for that call we had and recording it in a ticket somewhere.
Another thing I found to be impactful was writing onboarding checklists. Joining a new team or job that's missing this is extremely frustrating and its not too hard to create too. I basically go around discovering what I need to get started and add them to a checklist. Its surprisingly how many times I had to do this. When anyone new joins, I just point them to that checklist.
I find a lot of these points to be helpful especially when joining a new field.
From my experiences (which are mostly in tech), the most helpful thing I did was simply to write things down. There have been so many times where colleagues that are much more talented than me have fixed issues and gone on to forget about them entirely. A few months later, a similar issue would pop up again and we would struggle to remember what exactly it was that we did to solve it. In most cases, I like to do the grunt work of writing minutes for that call we had and recording it in a ticket somewhere.
Another thing I found to be impactful was writing onboarding checklists. Joining a new team or job that's missing this is extremely frustrating and its not too hard to create too. I basically go around discovering what I need to get started and add them to a checklist. Its surprisingly how many times I had to do this. When anyone new joins, I just point them to that checklist.
Perhaps ironically, most of these points define a good manager.