We regularly hear leaders in organizations and teams say we are a learning culture, we always learn from our mistakes. Yet, are we learning only when we are putting out fires and we come to the rescue? Do we have a system to learn...
What makes a tech team successful? The great teams and the really good team members integrate their non-technical skills to ensure they deliver good products. To talk more about this, I invited Harry Haralambiev and he's a teamwork and soft skills...
Forming teams is certainly not an easy task and there is no easy formula to follow. There are many books addressing how to recruit and improve teams with very different approaches. One of the recent books I read on the topic fascinated me...
-------- As remote work becomes a new kind of normal, we cannot assume that the same skills to manage a team in an office will apply for virtual teams. As a worker, you have the ability to work from the comfort of your home. As a manager though, how…
Making teams, especially tech teams, work together effectively may not be something that just happens naturally. Sometimes it requires some coaching. In the world of adopting agile ways of working, agile coaches are a key part of an organization to.…
How do I help my team become agile? Hello and welcome to episode 100 of the HSS. If this hapesn to be the first episode you lsten to, in each episode I discuss a difefernt essential skill with the help of an expert. I have...
This episode is a podcast collaboration with the Team Coaching Zone Podcast . Dr. Krister Lowe is Co-founder and Chief of Innovation at www.6TeamConditions.com. He is the pioneer of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast and the Co-Editor of The...
This season I am officially lunching coaching opportunities for us to work together so you can master skills we discuss here, become a high performer in your career and lead ahigh performing team. To get the details first of these limited...
If you are entering a new team or managing a new team, it can be quite intimidating especially if you are the new person. In this episode, you will learn about the 5Cs framework: Connect, Communicate, Collaborate, Create and Correct. For...
You are probably a member of a team or leading a team. Are you in a team doing work together or are you in a group of inviduals doing work? If you are a member of a team, you are all by definition, working together towards a common goal. So if...
What makes a great team? You can have a team of superstars, the best of the best, yet for some reason, the productivity is down, constant fighting occurs, the quality of the product is not the best. Think about your favorite sport team. Yes,...
Communications are so tricky. When I ask people and teams I work with what skill do you want to improve on I often hear, "I want to be a better speaker or a writer." The thing is, when we try to become that person we think we should use eloquent lon…
Bad situations are expected at any point, that’s a given, so how do we manage to deal with them effectively? At work, how do we help our teams become resilient? Today you will learn specific strategies on that with Dr. Marie-Hélène...
When we think about leaders we think of those who have just the right answer to every situation, those who can move crowds, who can make or break a team. But what if we are looking at leadership the wrong way? Is a leader a creator of followers or i…
If you are a frequent listener you knoe I have had a few epsiodes about coaching on this show, especially agile coaching. I think as managers especially in the IT world, knowing that is takes a different skill set to be a good coach is essential...
Heather Younger is a Juris Doctor turned Motivational Speaker and author who has dedicated her career to the study of management and leadership. She is the host of the Leadership with Heart Podcast and author of the book The 7 Intuitive Laws of...
This week’s interview was one I had wanted to do for a long time. I work as Product Owner working closely with software developers creating apps at a military organization. We use the Scrum framework, which is one of the multiple agile approaches...
Today we talk about hiring with Dr Paul Spector (), specifically the role of assessments when it comes to assessing skills. If you have a team or company, what are some of the considerations to take when assessing if you have a capable candidate....
Picture this, you are giving a presentation to a new customer about this app or this dashboard your team created, explained all the cool technical features at length. You feel good, you think you killed it since you prepared for so long, and at the.…
Are you a curious person? Are you prmoting curiosity among your team members? If not, you should, as my guest Dr Daine Hamilton recommends. She is a sought-after expert in curiosity, perception, emotional intelligence, and behavioral science. Dr....
“Interpersonal skills have always been important in working successfully in groups within organizations, but these findings indicate they will continue to be important—perhaps even more important—in the electronically connected fut…
'A team is not a group of people who work together. A team is a group of people who trust each other.' – Simon Sinek
No matter if you work on-site or remote, and regardless of your role, you probably are a member of a team. Do you consider yo…
We have reached 100 episodes! This journey started in 2020 and since then, I have conducted over 50 interviews, reached listeners in over 70 countries. Thank you for listening and suppor…
It has been a few weeks since I emailed you but I was on a little break. Well, not really, as summer has involved a lot of driving kids to camp, working with various tech teams launching new initiatives, speaking at conference, and finishing my last…
It's the end of 2024 and this is usually the time we get to review what have we learned and what have we achieved. This week, I want to focus on doing a recap of key lessons learned through the podcast this year.
Artificial Intelligenc…
One of the things I say to clients is communicate your best. So when you go into a room, ... one of the tricks I suggest is think of a favorite person in your life, whether it's a grandparent or a mentor, or perhaps you had a horrible life and you d…
We are in an age of acceleration. Everything is accelerating. Every graph you look at these days looks like things are bumping along, bumping along, bumping along, and t…
By: Yadi Caro
“To be successful in writing, use short sentences” - Ernest Hemingway
People tweet (or do we call it X'ed now?), write photo captions and are constantly communicating through the written word, but these mess…
By: Yadi Caro
Dealing with conflict between co-workers and managers costs companies about $359 billion per year or at least 3 hours a week per each worker. Bad team communications cost companies at least US12k a year. On the other han…
Traditional managers often don't want to hear bad news and people often get punished as the messenger or if you've made a mistake. By its definition, a lean leader wants to hear about these problems and they want to have a bias for action and solve …
By: Yadi Caro
Last week I wrapped up my time supporting a very important military organization, where I was tasked with introducing agility to the IT department. I enjoyed this job a lot! I had to put into practice all of the sk…
"We believe that you do need to get together to build social bonds. Our belief, though, is that you don’t need to get together every single day to sit next to each other on a Zoom call in an office and commute back and forth to get that benefi…
I am a huge fan of agile! Agile is an organizational approach to managing software which was conceived 23 years ago by a group of software developers as an alternative to deliver products faster and adapt to change quickly.Instead of taki…
By: Yadi Caro
This week I was working with my team and we had some minor conflict in terms of communications. I stated for what I thought was the 5th time what we had planned, but then my team member said 'That's not what you said earlier!'…
"Giving feedback is worthless. It's actually not quite worthless. It's worth something for the person who gives it. But study after study shows that basically giving someone else feedback has very minute impact in their behavior. What you want is a …
When you think about how can we be more productive. It's really about being more present with what you're doing, because you can hit a golf ball better. You can cook spaghetti better. You can tuck your kids into bed better. There's a lot of th…
If hearing the expression “let’s have a meeting” makes you cringe, you are not alone. I do love meetings though, but I love the GOOD ones. The ones where everyone gets to participate and collaborate. Those rare occasions when …
Hope you are having a good beginning of the month. This month Hardcore Soft Skills podcast turns 4 years old, so its a great time to start a new season of the podcast with a new episode next week. In case you have not noticed, I have made some updat…
By: Yadi Caro
Do you know the value you bring to your team?
They hired you for a reason and after this lesson, you’ll be able to confidently recognize the strength of your skills. Conducting a self-assessment of …
I received exciting news late last week. My 3 courses on "soft" skills developed in partnership with the production company Madecraft are all available now via various providers.
In each course I put together a collection of my experience, re…
