Morale boost by solving systemic problems

rosenhouse commented 5 years ago

Many teams can be painful to be on, and painful to staff.

Some Pivots are able to help make their team more interesting and/or fun, and help recruit other Pivots to it.

For example, a Pivot may identify an interesting or exciting solution to address the pain, and build consensus for that solution. Others are excited about doing the work to reduce the pain, and are also very happy when it pays off.

Some Pivots may take it further and "market" the team to other Pivots as an interesting or exciting rotation opportunity. This helps Pivots self-select into solving certain problems, building alignment between the problems of the team and the allocated staff.

The impacts may be that:

team morale goes up (e.g. as measured in Team Health Check)
a team which was previously challenging to staff is now a desirable rotation
other Pivots learn how to repeat this -- they learn to drive similar change elsewhere

I think this is a valuable skill set. How can we capture this it?

njbennett commented 5 years ago

What’s not already captured here by Alignment & Adaptability? Especially the 2nd bullet point in P4.

https://github.com/pivotal-cf/areas-of-contribution/blob/master/alignment.md

Especially the second bullet point.

The “marketing your team” aspect is something that’s not captured on the current form. That could potentially be a P3 bullet on its own.

rosenhouse commented 5 years ago

Ah, you're totally right.

I'd forgotten about

Engages deeply with difficult, less-glamorous challenges and transforms them to be more desirable and actionable.

I also agree that the "marketing your team" fits where you suggest, though it's also a form of "Project Leadership". Hmmm...

Gonna leave this open until I get around to creating a PR.

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