Michał Parkoła
I'm an independent consultant and leadership mentor, former senior engineering manager and agile coach helping software people do better. I'm most interested in action-oriented professional development.

💡 7 Things I learned that helped me build a successful career without a university degree

👹 What can you learn from the part of yourself you hate the most

⚽️ Play well with your team by asking "Who has the ball?" for each important topic over time

🍑 Juicy Goals - find out what people actually care about

🧪 How to learn from experience?

👉 What To Do Next?

🧱 Three false beliefs

😭 Three Pits of Team Despair

Build learning into everything you do

📗 Get inspired by stories

🕯️ Organize your communication around focused work

👉 Don't use the same tools to direct attention and store information

✍️ Make it easy for people to understand you

💎 Know What You Want

🏋️ Train like an athlete

🍏 Use limits, regeneration and meaning to not go crazy in difficult times

✉️ De-noise Your Email

🤔 How might this make sense?

☀️ Make good decisions in difficult interpersonal situations

🎖️ Encourage acts of leadership at all levels

🚦 You can't solve problems while angry or fearful

🏴‍☠️ One of Us

🤝 A fast decision-making method for teams

🏆 How to become a great team

🤪 How to stay sane on the road to meaningful outcomes

What do high-performance teams need from their virtual space (that they're not getting from existing tools)?

🔎 When in Doubt Clarify the Outcome and Action

⭐ Your Work Serves a Purpose: Make That Purpose Visible

💛 Make Your Communication Meaningful (For Your Intended Audience)

💎 Make Your Communication Concise

👀 Make Your Communication Concrete

✍️ Communicate Well in Short Chunks of Writing

🤩 Don't rely on "wow" effects

⚖️ How to make Very Big Decisions?

🧠 Use Trello as a structured whiteboard for distributed brainstorming and online workshops

⚔️ Heroic Adventurers vs. Brutish Invaders

🔭 How to Start with WHY

🥥 Don't keep valuable ideas locked up

💝 Assume Positive Intent

🌲 Enable Knowledge to Grow Over Time with AsyncABC

😀 Aim for a 5:1 ratio of positive to negative interactions

🍎 First Find the Good

📐 Use a consistent information architecture across tools

🖼️ Show, don't tell

Create Psychological Safety to Get Better Teamwork

A new operating system for learning

Help Your Team Be More Effective (the Google Way)

Maximise Collective Intelligence With Empathy

A Note on Empathy and Compassion

When making decisions as a team aim for soft consensus