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Give your team room to express themselves

{ Posted on Jun 02 2010 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : culture, headscape, management, project delivery, project management, team
Paul Boag, one of the founders and directors of Headscape, once said; "We specialise in sh*t projects." If, like me, you run projects for a normal, every day web agency. If you do not always get the opportunity to be working with the latest cool ...Read More »

Confidence is king

{ Posted on Nov 09 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : culture, leadership, management, solutions, team
Confidence plays an important role in many areas of our lives. You will often here it said of footballer, for example, that they are a confidence player. I know from my own inability to play golf that I become marginally less rubbish if I have confidence in ...Read More »

It’s OK to not know.

{ Posted on Oct 22 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : culture, leadership, management, team
"I don't know" is actually a valid answer to a problem. "Let me think about that" is not an excuse to waste time. "I think I should discuss this problem with my peers" doesn't present you as incapable. No need to be infallible We ...Read More »

Solutions not problems

{ Posted on Mar 09 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : culture, headscape, management, project delivery, solutions, team
It's very easy to indentify when something is wrong. It doesn't matter if it's a small one person task or a large project being undertaken by a whole team of people, finding issues is normally...  no, I would say, always ...Read More »

The rant line

{ Posted on Feb 12 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : culture, headscape, management, team
It's good to get things off your chest. Inevitably, during the course of a project things will annoy you. A customer will insist on something stupid, a college will make a hash of something which will add to your work ...Read More »

Like breeds like…

{ Posted on Nov 03 2008 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : culture, leadership, management, team
If you have ever wondered why your team is what it is, then it is possible that you should look no further. Just like children often pick up traits, characteristics, and mannerisms of their parents, and "best friends" will find ...Read More »