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Give tools to your team

Published 4 months ago • 1 min read

Give tools to your team

Every manager has one directive: do your best while spending the least.

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The problem?

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Spending the least can prevent your team from doing their best.

If you are a founder with a software background, hardware might seem prohibitively expensive to you.

Wise managers think, What is the minimum I can spend to enable my team to perform their best?

If they ask their technical team, they will receive a long list of tools and gadgets, each justified as indispensable.
Some of this is true—they do need tools and training. But not everything is needed at once.

How do you equip your team? How do you decide what to buy and when?

Provide them with two toolboxes: one digital and one physical.
Then, add tools to each, one at a time.

Every hour a team member spends using one tool is an hour not spent using another. In today’s world of subscriptions, this is more important than ever.

Let them discover, learn, and master one tool at a time.
Once they’ve maximized its use and it feels second nature, only then should you add a new tool.

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TLDR

  1. Listen to your team
  2. Understand the urgency
  3. Select the most critical tool
  4. Train your team to master it
  5. Rinse and repeat.

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