The Idea
It is often said that the first step is always the hardest - and my blog endeavour confirms that. I’ve created a place to share my thoughts in November 2022 with a plan to post regularly. Deciding on a platform (substack vs. medium vs. own site) and potential blog post ideas were the easy part. But publishing the actual content is the challenging bit. My internal perfectionist says that whatever I create is not yet fit for publishing and I need to spend few more days on another draft.
This post is an experiment that could help me break this vicious cycle. The rules are simple:
- Start small & easy - Listing ideas and areas of my expertise is relatively easier than going deep into a selected topic.
- Accountability - Thanks to listing topics I immediately feel pushed to turn them into actual blog posts. If I share my goals with my audience I have a higher chance to keep my promise.
- It’s an experiment - By calling it an experiment I’m not scared of failure. It can either jump-start my blogging habit or become a learning opportunity that will fuel the next experiment.
Enough theory, let’s move to the essence of this post. I’ve grouped my ideas into themes that I plan to expand whenever new ideas come up. I encourage you to leave a comment if you would like me to focus on a particular topic first.
Growth - How I keep to self-improve
- Feedback - A powerful tool for self-improvement. How to ask for it, receive it and give it.
- My sources of knowledge - List of places of my inspiration and growth, newsletters, blogs, books, podcasts, etc.
- Making time for professional growth as a fresh father - My journey on making space for reading, writing, and expanding my expertise while sustaining (most of the time) work-life balance
Hiring - Distilling my 2-year journey of owning the overall hiring process in a digital agency
- Building a scorecard - How to describe the role
- Candidate Packet - A set of materials that will help convince people to join your team
- Running interviews
- Building onboarding experience - How as a team we’ve managed to create a unified onboarding experience and gradually improve it
Productivity
- Owning your calendar
- My focus rituals & how I fight distractions
- Separation of work and personal life
- How I managed 50 people and not went crazy
- Small steps are key to completing big projects
Management & Leadership
- Running 1 on 1’s
- Coaching, mentoring, sponsorship
- How to run effective meetings
- Lessons learned from change management