Jul 26, 2021

🥗 CTO Craft Labs, Responsible Meetings, Growth Weeks, Conflict Resolution, Documentation: TMW #226 by CTO Craft

By Andy @ CTO Craft • Issue #226 • View online

Hi everyone!

A huge announcement today - after months of honing and testing, we would love to invite all of you to attend the first of our series of CTO Craft Labs workshops. We’ve put together a string of half-day virtual workshops which will be conducted via Zoom and Miro, and the theme of the first Lab is Successful 1:1s and Giving Feedback. The group size will be limited to 12, and the first three Lab dates will be facilitated by Dan Smith, who many members will know from our Mentoring Circles and the Group Discussion events we run.

This first workshop is designed for early-stage leaders and CTOs who are just in the process of implementing 1:1 meetings and feedback loops in their teams - if you’re more experienced, but interested in building some new skills with a group of others, you’ll get some value here as well.

Participants will:

Evaluate their existing approach to conducting 1:1 meetings and feedback sessions.
Analyse the available approaches to making 1:1 conversations effective and giving impactful feedback.
Start the process of creating their own approach to delivering high impact 1:1s.

Tickets are £350, but as TMW subscribers, you can use the discount code “indeedSEVERALwind” to attend for £250. The event links are just below

If you’d like to know anything more about the Labs before jumping in, drop me a reply or DM me on Slack!

Until next time

Andy @ CTO Craft

CTO Craft Labs

📆 CTO Craft Labs: Successful 1:1s & Giving Feedback Tickets, Mon 23 Aug 2021 at 15:00 BST

Learn how to get the most from your working relationships through planning and executing 1:1s and feedback sessions for the highest impact

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📆 CTO Craft Labs: Successful 1:1s & Giving Feedback Tickets, Fri 27 Aug 2021 at 10:00 BST

Learn how to get the most from your working relationships through planning and executing 1:1s and feedback sessions for the highest impact

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📆 CTO Craft Labs: Successful 1:1s & Giving Feedback Tickets, Mon 13 Sep 2021 at 15:00 BST

Learn how to get the most from your working relationships through planning and executing 1:1s and feedback sessions for the highest impact

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Culture & People

Make Failure A (Safe) Option

A mistake I made a few times earlier in my career was withholding opportunities from people on my team until I felt they were “ready”. Once, I had someone on my team, who I’ll call E—, who very much wanted to move into management. E— asked to take over our team’s budget planning.

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A “Responsible Recipe” for the Fewest Possible Meetings

Welcome to Magical Meetings Stories, a series where I chat with professional facilitators, meeting practitioners, leaders, and CEOs across industries about their meeting culture.

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Why we introduced “growth” weeks

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Leadership & Self-management

25 Habits of Highly Effective Managers

Sharp folks from across the First Round community share the small habits that great managers do, including delivering feedback with care, opening up about failure, and sending praise up the chain.

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3 Fundamental Tactics For Resolving Conflict As A Leader

During my time as a union steward, I spent over fifty percent of my time in conflict resolution meetings. Conflict is inevitable.

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How Leaders Can Temper Their Tempers

No one likes working for someone that doesn’t treat them well. As leaders the job can often be stressful and you can end up juggling a lot of things. However, that doesn’t mean you can take out the frustration or angst, on those you work with.

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Agile, Engineering & Product

The Lack of Agile Leadership Qualities

There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. Given that Scrum is a framework with a reasonable yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone.

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Planning & estimating large-scale software projects

This weekend I was talking with a friend about how I’d planned and estimated a huge software project in one of my previous jobs.

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Documentation, another case of rapidly diminishing returns

No body writes documentation in startups. Writing documents is a luxury only established companies can afford. One might ask: are companies successful because they write documents or do they write documents because they are successful? But I’d be hard pushed to find anyone to argue the latter.

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That’s it!

If you’d like to be considered for the free CTO Craft Community, fill in your details here, and we’ll be in touch!

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Have an amazing week!

Andy