Good People
I spent one of my 1:1s this week helping one of the team to refine a list of goals they’d like to achieve. Some were big and amorphous, and others well-defined and measurable. We talked about how the agile concepts of epics and stories turn bigger things into workable chunks, and wondered if we could use that framing to do the same thing with their goals.
We also talked about momentum, and how a completed list of three things will bring a sense of achievement you won’t get from a list of 12 things that don’t get done – keeping morale and thirst for further goal-setting high 📈
In a similarly good 1:1 with another team member, we started afresh with efforts to regularly use a trusty Google Docs template that serves a few purposes:
- A through-the-week jotter for making note of conversation points
- An agenda for the 1:1 itself
- A way to assign and track actions that result from the 1:1
Shared 1:1 notes with your manager or managee really help with a sense of openness and accountability. If you haven’t tried them, give it a go 📝
This week Vee, our People Manager, marked seven years with dxw ❤️
As Poss put on our company Slack: [Vee is] probably been the first person many of us spoke to prior to “the first day”. Either that, or the first person to greet you as you arrived in the office as your started your dxw journey.to many of you, Vee is also an ally and close friend, the first to check-in with you and to offer a helping hand.
Good Work
I’ve been slowly losing my grip on my calendar over a number of months. Recently I’ve tried Reclaim and Clockwise but if anything they’ve only added to the feeling that my time management is pure chaos. This week I started thinking about how to design a better calendar. First step was to look at all the ways I spend my time and categorise them. Next week I’ll look at each in more detail and try and spot patterns.
I took the collaborative Miro board output from our Yorkshire & Humber Care Record design workshop a couple of weeks ago and turned it into a Figma prototype. Hopefully we’ll soon be putting it in front of people to help validate some of the choices the team made.
Good Stories
I didn’t take many photos from our trip up north to see my folks; I like to think it was because I was too busy being present rather than thinking about my phone. I did take a couple though, one being a photo of a photo of my dad and his mum, who I barely remember, on the promenade at Blackpool.
Upon returning from our trip up north, I collected the cat from the “Feline Lodge” she’d been staying with. She really had the hump with me when she got home 💔
