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Free office hours in May 2021

During May, you can connect remotely with either Elle, Lachlan, or both for an hour for free to work on anything you would like to.

These sessions could be used to discuss your product, to pair program on code, to discuss your team culture or career choices, or anything else that is on your mind at work.

Product sessions might involve discussing your startup idea, product requirements, feature delivery in an agile environment, product design sprints, or balancing speed with quality and technical debt as a few examples.

During engineering sessions, we might pair program on a problem you are having, talk through your architecture choices, or try to experiment with a different approach to what is in place now. To get the most of these sessions, we are most comfortable around Ruby, Rails, HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

Alternatively you might want to have a light conversation about your team and team culture, and what that means to you. Topics that come to mind are:

  • how to run effective one on ones,
  • how to hire for diversity,
  • async work,
  • inclusive leadership,
  • providing feedback,
  • how to search for a new job,
  • salary negotiations.

Two sessions per week are open for you to grab during May. Please book a session and come and chat to us. Feel free to share this with people around you who could benefit too!

Thank you all for the interest. All sessions are now booked.

Posted on April 27, 2021 by Elle Meredith

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As a leader, giving feedback is part of your job and doing it well is a skill you need to develop and exercise regularly. We should focus on improving our communication efforts to achieve positive outcomes for all, and on developing a high performance environment where respect for each other is the norm by practising actionable, specific, and kind feedback.

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Would you like to improve team effectiveness and productivity? Got a project you think we can help with? Interested in leadership coaching or engineering training? Basically, want to work with us? Get in touch: gday@blackmill.co and we will be in touch in a jiffy.

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