Things Leaders Should Never Do
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This is meant to be an evergreen list of things that leaders should never do, hopefully I don't need to add many to this list!
- Schedule unprompted meetings with no context
- For sensitive things related to another meeting yet to happen - just wait to schedule the meeting
- For all other cases, always provide context!
- Send copy-pasted messages as a DM
- I can tell when the message wasn't written just for me
- If you intend to share it with all your directs, then post it in a shared channel!
- Answer questions about the team, without talking to the team first
- Don't provide estimates for a project without talking to the team working on it directly first
- Don't say the team is doing well without asking how the team is doing first
- Ask for status updates at 5pm on a Friday
- If the team is in a crunch period, communicate early and similarly ask for updates earlier
- Nothing is ever so critical that it needs to be responded to at 5pm on a Friday - save it for Monday morning