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The 3 big ideas, key quotes and takeaways from Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais. Learn how team structures shape software architecture and flow.
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This week I introduce a new section to the newsletter - Atomic Coaching. Each week I'll share a small challenge to help grow your coaching skills.This weeks insights include: • How To Build Rapport 🤝 • Leadership Lessons from Instagram 📷 • Atomic Coaching: Asking Powerful Questions 🎯
With Gratitude,TobyHow To Build Rapport 🤝This week I read Rapport by Emily Alison and Laurence Alison.Rapport is your ability to build a connection with people.It's the bedrock of successful relati
Amazon Smile UK | Amazon Smile US When you purchase via Amazon Smile your chosen charity will get 0.5% donation⭐ Toby's Rating: 6/10 - Recommended For: Coaches and ManagersRapport is a book that we hope provides something for everyone. Whether seeking to make a new connection or to deepen an existing one, our hope is that it will help you build rapport. With this book, we set the bar for interpersonal skill and we challenge everyone, including ourselves, to uphold these principles with our love
The big question for many leaders when to Coach vs Mentor.When a team member seeks out your help it's easy to jump to advice: "Here's what I would do..."Always responding this way can cause a few problems for leaders over time.Firstly, it can create a dependency on your leadership. Instead of thinking for themselves, the team will come to you for answers. They may assume that to go ahead they need your advice first.Secondly, your advice is not as good as you think it is. By jumping to conclusion
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This weeks insights include: • How to decide when to coach vs mentor 🤔 • Book Summary: Making of a Manager 📚 • The Coaching Habit Visualised 🎨 
With Gratitude,TobyWhen to Coach vs Mentor? 🤔This week I was helping a Tech Leader improve their coaching skills. The dilemma we explored this week was when to coach vs mentor?It's common for leaders to assume coaching and mentoring are the same. However, once you start to develop coaching skills it quickly becomes apparent that ther
Buy Making of a Manager on Amazon⭐ Toby's Rating: 8/10 - Recommended For: Managers3 Big IdeasA summary of the big ideas from The Making of a Manager What To Do When Everyone Looks To You by Julie Zhuo: • A Managers job is to build a team that works well together, support members in reaching their career goals, and create processes to get work done smoothly and efficiently. • A manager is a specific role. Leadership is the particular skill of being able to guide and influence other people. While
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This weeks insights include: • How Keystone Habits Help You 🧱 • Perceptual Positions and the Suez Canal Ship 🚢 • April Goal Setting Exercise 🎯
With Gratitude,TobyHow Keystone Habits Help You 🧱This week I re-read Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. The book is most famous for the habit loop: Cue, Routine, Reward.What I most enjoy in this book is the focus on keystone habits. These are habits that strengthen other habits. Exercise is the most common keystone habit. If you exercise
The big ideas, best quotes and top takeaways from the Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. You'll learn the importance of keystone habits and how they change your life.
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This weeks insights include: • Knowing When To Quit 🤔 • Change is not an event. It's a skill. ✨ • Lyssa Adkins and Edge Theory 🔥Thanks to everyone who submitted feedback this month. Here are the results: 👍 = 43% 😐 = 29% 👎 = 28%As always, you can share feedback at the end of today's edition.
With Gratitude,TobyKnowing When To Quit 🤔Being a change agent is hard. It's full of ups and downs. It can often feel like change is never going to happen. Therefore knowing when to quit i
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This weeks insights include: • How a chef can help you build new habits 🍱 • 5 Check-In Questions for one-on-ones 👥 • Change is not an event. It's a skill. 🛠You can give one-click feedback at the end of this edition.
With Gratitude,TobyHow a chef can help you build new habits 🍱This week I read Good Habits, Bad Habits by Wendy Wood. Thie big takeaway was how shaping your context can help you form better habits. Professional chef, Robert Jörin shares what cooking can teach you abo
Context is critical to your habits. If the context remains stable—you keep living in the same place, you keep driving the same route to work, you keep sitting on your couch every evening—then you repeat past actions automatically. To build new habits, reduce the friction to do the behaviour.
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This weeks insights include: • Your advice is not as good as you think 💬 • An Operating System for great one-on-ones 👥 • Atomic Habits Visualized 🖼You can give one-click feedback at the end of this edition.
With Gratitude,TobyYour advice is not as good as you think 💬I was once working with a leader on how to improve their presentation skills.It was an important pitch to a new client and pressure was high.With pitching experience, I was asked to help the leader prepare.We worked