Performance Remapping

At the start of this year, I wanted to make changes to the way we manage DrivenByQ. As we have grown, the way we have done things in the past has not worked so well in recent times. Key decisions about our future have been harder to reach and things have felt like a chore sometimes. Our team was slowly becoming fragmented too.

The first step we took in January was to implement a monthly management meeting. The initial get together covered a lot of outstanding issues. Effectively all we did was go over old ground. The second meeting however was better, the agenda was smaller, the discussion more creative and the outlook optimistic.

As we complete the first quarter of 2013, a new team dynamic is developing. In the last week we reached decisions about a new web site and implementing an intricate software update. The big difference is how much discussion we have had as a team, the depth of understanding everyone has and how quick we reach decisions.

Last year, I worked on many projects alone and repeatedly tried to gain financial agreement at a late stage. It proved frustrating when a lengthy process of questions broke out and no decision was reached. This year however, we are being decisive, moving fast, being increasingly responsive and rediscovering real agility!