I worked with some. General things I picked up from them and try to emulate now that I’ve become one:
- Clearly state your values and stick to them - it’s much more comfortable to people to work with a predictable leader and builds trust over time.
- Provide rich context to the team and ask for business outcomes, not specifics.
- Communicate, communicate, communicate - especially if you work in a remote team/company. You need to have a constant dialog going with the team - it’s up to you how, however - there’s a lot of different ways to facilitate.
- Remember your promises and provide people with resolutions to issues they raise, follow up! I know it sounds self explanatory but so many managers just plain forget the things you ask immediately after your 1:1’s.
- Clearly state your values and stick to them - it’s much more comfortable to people to work with a predictable leader and builds trust over time.
- Provide rich context to the team and ask for business outcomes, not specifics.
- Communicate, communicate, communicate - especially if you work in a remote team/company. You need to have a constant dialog going with the team - it’s up to you how, however - there’s a lot of different ways to facilitate.
- Remember your promises and provide people with resolutions to issues they raise, follow up! I know it sounds self explanatory but so many managers just plain forget the things you ask immediately after your 1:1’s.
- Do your 1:1’s for gods sake! Weekly preferably.