Category: Episodes
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S1E10 – Toward a Better Culture (Culture Series – Part 2 of 3)
Show Notes In part two of this three-part series on Culture, Andy and Mon-Chaio wrangle with the question “Is there ‘better culture’ to aim for?” Along the way they delve into bad culture, focusing on values or on outcomes, differences between what people say and what people do, burnout, and pillars of a good tech…
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S1E9 – Demystifying Corporate Culture (Culture Series – Part 1 of 3)
Show Notes In part one of this three-part series, Andy and Mon-Chaio attempt to provide a research-supported answer on whether culture is important for your tech organization. They also dig into the details of whether a company should hire for cultural fit. Opening quote from “A Review Paper on Organizational Culture and Organizational Performance”. References:…
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S1E8 – Setting Challenging Goals
Show Notes Goals. We all have them, but should we? Mon-Chaio and Andy examine the literature on goal setting and discuss how to set good, challenging goals. Opening quote from “Building a practically useful theory of goal setting and task motivation: A 35-year odyssey”. References: Transcript Microphone-1: In short, when people are asked to do…
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S1E7 – Who are We and Why Should You Listen
Show Notes Andy and Mon-Chaio give some background on their professional experiences and talk about how the TLL podcast is unique and why that’s a good thing. Transcript Mon-Chaio: Thank you for joining us for another episode. We realized last week that we’ve never actually told y’all why you should listen to us or who…
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S1E6 – Navigating the Challenges of Building Trust
Show Notes Mon-Chaio and Andy explore the research on trust and how to translate that into successful tactics for building trust in technical organizations … including situations when strong trust may not be necessary for high-performing teams. References Transcript Mon-Chaio: Trust is a valuable commodity and one every high-performing organization strives for in spades. However…
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S1E5 – Untangling the Metrics Request
Show Notes Andy and Mon-Chaio talk about the dreaded request for team performance metrics. Rather than simply agreeing to start measuring, we explore a different approach. Opening quote from “Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Compassion” References Transcript Andy: All criticism, attack, insults and judgements vanish. When we focus attention on hearing the feelings and needs…
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S1E4 – The Why and How of Delegation
Show Notes We explore delegation: why to do it and how to do it. The discussion ranges widely between the approaches the Prussian military used to command its forces to the ideas of the situational leadership model. Opening quote from page 189 of the book “The Art of Action” by Stephen Bungay. References Transcript Andy:…
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S1E3 – Organizing to Learn
Show Notes In this episode, we explore the ideas from the book Teaming about how to organise to learn. Organising to learn takes framing to learn, psychological safety, learning from failure, and crossing boundaries. The opening quote is from chapter one of the book “Teaming” by Amy Edmonson. References: Transcript Andy: In some respects, organizing…
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S1E2 – Longevity of Team Boundaries
Show Notes Andy and Mon-Chaio contemplate how often team boundaries should change, what impacts changing boundaries has, and some tactics for making boundary changes easier. References Transcript Andy: that curiosity and empathy is needed from the leaders as well to understand what dynamics they have. Understand why that’s happening and have empathy for the choices…
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S1E1 – Analysing a team situation using BART
Show Notes In this inaugural episode of the Tactics for Technical Leadership (TTL) podcast, Mon-Chaio and Andy discuss the BART (Boundary, Authority, Role Task) framework for analysing group dynamics and apply it to a situation that Mon-Chaio encountered with two teams. Referenced materials: Transcript Hey, mania. What’s up? Hey, Andy. So we finally have a…