Meta-communication & Managing Up Through Questions - Coaching Reflections
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I spend my days coaching design leaders, helping them improve themselves and their organisations. Managing upwards, meta-communication - the communication around the work vs the work itself - and the importance of showing your work are this week's reflections. Plus a bonus clip of me tandem skydiving.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Start
00:18 Questions as a way of managing up
02:37 Deadlines are not real.
03:28 The importance of ideating and sketching. Show your working!
07:50 Meta-communication
10:23 Why you need to think like a tandem skydiving instructor
11:51 Wrap up
LINKS
- Daniele Catalanotto on communicating about the work: / master-design-hslu_ser...
- Julian Simpson on writing slow: developmenthell.substack.com/...
- Design Leadership Coaching: www.polaine.com/coaching
- Andy's website - www.polaine.com
- Subscribe to Power of Ten podcast - pln.me/p10
- Subscribe to Andy’s newsletter Doctor’s Note - pln.me/nws
- Andy's KZread channel - / @apolaine
- Andy's online courses - courses.polaine.com
- Andy on Mastodon - pkm.social/@apolaine
- Andy on LinkedIn - / apolaine
- Suggestions? Feedback? Get in touch! - www.polaine.com/contact
Пікірлер: 4
Great video. I especially love the "meta communication tip" - I have a similar observation. It does help to talk about "how did we do this and why did we pick that method/framework" briefly when talking to execs.
@apolaine
2 ай бұрын
Thanks Petra. Yes, good tip, though I know design folks can often get into a "look at all the work we did!" process rabbit hole if they're not careful.
Ideation is crucial though I've found many organisations don't really know how to do it, especially those that have underinvested or disempowered design teams.
@apolaine
3 ай бұрын
Yes and this always baffles me. Why wouldn’t you want to explore more ideas and get some early steers when it’s still cheap to change your direction?