6.1. Collaboration

How to select a leader? Should you even have a leader? What qualities make for a good leader?

How to keep people involved if they aren’t the leader?

Stages of team formation

Methods to come to an agreement. (Article, and another >)

  • Democratic (vote)
  • Consensus (get everyone to agree, slow)
  • Consultive (talk with everyone, smarter, still slow)
  • Autocratic (make a decision without asking, fast and stupid)
  • Delegation (pass the buck)

How do you come to a decision when no one cares?

How to delegate work and follow up with work? We will use an issue tracker. See (creating an issue on GitHub)

6.1.1. Building a high performing team

  • Have everyone contribute equally? Ideal, but how do you get there? Does a coach play everyone equally?
  • Only play the star performers?
  • How do we build a team and encourage more people to become high performing people?

How to “present”

  • Take public speaking classes
  • Learn to “work a room”

How to “organize”

  • List tasks
  • Prioritize
  • Follow up
  • Index/search

Other

  • How to deal with non-engaged team members
  • How to deal with disruptive team members
  • How to deal with unskilled team members
  • Conflict - conflict avoidance.
  • Perspective
  • How to advertise yourself