Aidan: One on one's very important being the first, I mean, leading by example and talking about mistakes so that people understand that mistakes happen or things change. It makes people feel good to see that people are listening to them and agreeing with what they're saying. And we have an ideas channel for every department in the company and people start more and more posting ideas in there because they know, oh, people care. Like I have something to say.
https://fellow.app/supermanagers/alexandra-sunderland-fellow-retrospectives-public-channels-and-asynchronous-meetings/
Why does everyone need to have retrospective meetings?
There needs to be space to talk about long-standing issues that don’t come up day to day in the workplace.
In episode #124, Alexandra shares the power of async meetings and exactly how she runs her not-so-typical engineering retros.
Alexandra Sunderland is a Senior Engineering Manager at Fellow and author of Remote Engineering Management. Alexandra has worked for over a decade in both hybrid and remote roles, ranging from startups to public corporations.
Alexandra also shares why communication should be default to open and how she manages a culturally diverse team.
Tune in to hear all about Alexandra’s leadership journey and the lessons learned along the way!
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