Communication

Legend: 🐾 Pattern, 💡 Realization, 😺 Meme

General

🐾 Five Whys - Sakichi Toyoda​

😺 Fire and Forget: Delegated work has to be executed or reported back on by the assignee. The goal is to kill any need to track progress and create full trust into assignee. - Stefan Richter​

💡It's only rational to complain about the environment if there's maintained rejection of a reasonable initiative. - Alexander Thiel

Managing Knowledge

🐾 Discussions should happen in artifacts: Alignment is best created by collaboratively working on a single shared document. - Alexander Thiel

First Contact

🐾 E.g. when interviewed for a Job: Let me tell you what I know and you tell me how accurate it is. Present what you thoroughly prepared for an hour, anticipate the companies strategy. - unknown application at Wunder Mobility.

Presenting Something

🐾 1. Tell me what you are going to tell me 2. Tell me 3. Tell me what you told me - unknown, learned from Lennart Telwest​

Being interviewed for a job

🐾 Ask "what would you add" / "what was missing in my response" after responding to factual questions. - Various interviews / Alexander Thiel

🐾 Ask whether your response answered the question. - Various interviews / Alexander Thiel

🐾 Take notes. It allows you to learn faster and it shows that you care - Various interviews / Lennart Weber​

🐾 When gettting feedback after an interview or assessment center: Don't defend yourself. Their opinion is made up, your only making it worse. Take notes, ask for clarifications and smile. - Alexander Thiel

🐾 When being interviewed, ask (fitting) personal questions to destroy the wall and get on eye level. - Various interviews / Alexander Thiel

🐾 Great question to dig deeper: What is each top managers worst weakness and greatest strength? - Kari Penttilä​