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?
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