How can I reduce rookie Teams mistakes I am making in my new job?
I started a new job that I am very happy about. But I noticed an odd thing. I am making a lot of basic Teams mistakes: booking the wrong conference room, starting the wrong meeting, giving the wrong person permission on a shared document, etc. It's jarring, because these were seamless for me at my old job, and 100% these new errors are my oversights; nothing is wrong with the new system. I think I'm underestimating the extra mental energy required to deal with new people and setups, and I want to protect the impression I'm making on my new colleagues. I'm going to slow down and double check when booking meetings and other Teams functions.
Has anyone else had this happen, and if so what helped?
Ur right Engineering Manager
Ur right Engineering Manager.
Slow down. Look at it for 10 seconds before hitting 'send'.
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Coming from a technical background in the field, I used to train new apprentices with this rule:
For every cable termination, I want you to spend 10 seconds looking at your work before you screw the plate back on the wall. I actually want you to count to 10.
We will be testing the cabling over a single weekend and there are over 3,000 terminations to test. Each termination takes 3 minutes to re-terminate.
We don't have time to revisit the task. We can spare one hour re-terminating over the weekend.
This gives us a maximum of 20 failures out of 3,000. This is a 99.4% success rate.
Now, knowing that we can't tolerate failure, I dont care how long it takes you to do the job of terminating 3,000 cables. As long as you work at your own pace and check each connection for 10 seconds.
The 10 seconds only adds 8 extra man hours to a two week task for a gang of 5 men- It's much better than losing 32 hours to re-testing, plus failure to meet deadlines.