Christine P. Dela Rosa Atlassian Team

Well this is a fun musing on its own, @Andy Gladstone! For the folks in the back, I'm going to repeat what you said: "...the amount of time that is required in programmed team interactions is directly correlated to the health of the team." I could not agree more. Having to "program" get-to-know-you time, fun sessions, or…

@nina_schmidt I've never done this before but I'm going to the next time I'm in-person with my team! I've used clay or play-doh in the post for participants to help them with their creativity, but not to help form their ideas. I've also been an attendee myself in cutting out images from magazines to create a collage to…

YES! Tell me if the mentality changes anything for you, @Evangeline Black !

Something I can remind myself of regularly. Reflecting on just yourself/myself is truly a practice.

Yes, the tailoring does say something about a candidate's investment. For sure.

OK @Anita Kalmane - we're doing it! And now we're looking for speakers if you or someone you know is interested ;) https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Teamwork-Lab-articles/Speaker-request-quot-Fail-Tales-quot-a-storytelling-event-in/ba-p/1984013#M797 And yes @Belto we'll be soliciting within Atlassians as well.

@Anne Saunders you've been selected as this week's March Musing blanket giveaway recipient. I'll reach out to you for shipping details :) Thanks to everyone for such insightful notes!

You experience definitely tracks with my past teams' traits as well! Curious: were your teams ever trained or perhaps modeled how to help level up the overall team's EQ? Or was it simply luck of the draw where the teams with high EQ were lucky?

Welcome, @sr and @Darryl Lee ! I'd love to hear more about y'all in the welcome space - https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Teamwork-Lab/New-member-introductions-to-the-Teamwork-Lab-group/m-p/1741151#M1. Come on down :)

If your team makes a proactive decision to do this more, let us know how it goes!

That's interesting, to separate the emotion from the plot points. I often default to focusing on what happened but my emotions bleed into that thinking. Maybe I'll make a more concerted effort to separate the two!

A balance of time and usage for everything, indeed!

Yes!!! @Rose Eliff and @Evangeline Black there's definitely a matter of ensuring that praise is warranted. It doesn't help anyone if it is not earned. What do you think about timing of encouragement? Sometimes I wonder if it's important to wait for teammates to express how they feel before we give praise. 

I like the idea of being in a state of curiosity. That applies to this discussion and so many others.

You're right, @Melissa Castán. I love this comment! Affirmation intended to provide feedback on direction or feel heard...those are potentially more in need as you mentioned. But, affirmation used more along the lines of transactional praise may not be fulfilling a significant purpose. The praise needs to come from a place…

I feel that, @Anne Saunders! Atlassian has a kudos system, too, and we make sure that kudos are only given out when teammates go above and beyond (vs confirming receipt of deliverables provided for example).

@Josh Costella, congrats! You've been picked as the commenter to win this week's March Musing contest. I'll email you to get your shipping info :)

Oh absolutely. I think sharing our own personal failures sometimes opens people up to admitting theirs and then eventually admitting whole team failures. But I also get that that's not the order of change in all places.

I bet that documentation helps more than just those on the team. Assuming you keep your pages public on Confluence, that's a "lessons learned" share that everyone in the company can benefit from. AND! It normalizes the practice.

Hi @Keith Winsor - this offer was to test out a new workshop, but we can still run it with you. This is what it will look like - https://www.atlassian.com/team-playbook/plays/ritual-reset. If interested, yes, you can get your team business manager to schedule some time for us to connect. In exchange, I just ask that your…

Excellent. @Huwen Arnone _Deiser_Devoteam_ would you say your team is comfortable in sharing failures as a result of the repeated shares during sprint or retro meetings?

You think a live event like that could work for our group? I wonder if that might be fun on Atlassian Community.

You're 100%, right, @Evangeline Black (and welcome to the group by the way 👋 ). A culture that embraces failure doesn't mean it's a culture of constantly making errors. I see it as a way to say that it's okay if mistakes happen, so that a team may not fear trying new things...or trying anything for that matter. As for your…

When I was in college, I was a student leader in a cultural group. I thought that the historical educational, health-oriented, or language programs would be enough to motivate my fellow leaders. And I pushed everyone to commit to delivering high-quality programming for the rest of the members, as though the value itself…

Y'all have really affirmed different parts of this musing for me. It's interesting to know which parts of this resonated more than others but that overall it's the idea of taking note of who is involved, making sure there's true and shared understanding of what needs to happen, and simply understanding context goes a long…

I'm a fan of the formal 5 Whys workshop or even taking a quiet breath to ask this important question before immediately looking at the suggested question to answer for a conversation, a meeting, a large project, etc. But I especially liked your note @Rose Eliff on alignment of the problem at hand, because even if one…

I love to hear that there are data points (you) showing that we have momentum in this direction!

Yes! The interview is really the important leg. But I suppose resumes help whittle folks down to who can make it into the interview...I just wish there was a way to either add more value to resumes or help reduce the vias in resumes.

More on that note, @Bill Sheboy ...I'd ask the question: what are we scanning for in resumes that can be automated even if resumes are not yet written in that way? Also, what is not automatable?

For sure, @Josh Costella. The balance between skimmable resumes alongside contextual information is the ideal we may not yet know how to achieve. But to your point, maybe we shouldn't need context to accompany resumes and we simply need a "minimum bar" to be achieved so that the next step (interviews etc) can drop in that…