5. EXPOSING MY PREFERENCES
Regular feedback, clear evaluation criteria and defined
expectations are critical.
If I am not growing, I’m unhappy.
I love teams.
Training is a two person activity.
9. OVERVIEW OF TEACHING/TRAINING
The whole point of teaching and training is to reduce unknowns.
If training isn’t reducing unknowns, what’s the point.
10. KNOWN UNKNOWNS AND
UNKNOWN UNKNOWNS
• The top is what we know we
don’t know
• The bottom represents all the
things that we don’t even
realize we don’t know.
11. WRONG
• The bottom of the iceberg is
woefully too small to
represent how many unknown
unknowns we have.
14. 1 THE LAW OF THE TEACHER
The teacher must know that which he
would teach; therefore, know thoroughly,
clearly, and familiarly the lesson you wish to
teach.
15. ONBOARDING
Create a New Engineer’s handbook
Understand the dev process and working agreements of the
team
Present your style guide
Understand how the team fits into the company as a whole
Understand how each developer fits into the team
Understand how the team deals with conflict
16. CONTINUING EDUCATION / MENTORING
Engineering Ladder
Style guide reviews
Core Book List and Recommended Reading List
17. ROUTINE QUESTIONS
You need to either have the answer or know how to find the
answer
Same teaching goals - reduce unknowns and demonstrate
problem solving skills
18. 2 THE LAW OF THE LEARNER
The learner must attend with interest to the
material to be learned; therefore, gain and
keep the attention and interest of the pupils
on the lesson. Do not try to teach without
attention.
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23. THE FIVE KEYS TO A SUCCESSFUL GOOGLE TEAM
“A group of us in Google’s People Operations (what we call HR)
set out to answer this question using data and rigorous analysis:
What makes a Google team effective?”
Psychological safety
Can we take risks on this team without feeling insecure or
embarrassed?
26. 3 THE LAW OF THE LANGUAGE
The language used in teaching must be
common to teacher and learner; therefore,
use words understood in the same way by
the pupils and yourself.
27. 2 KEYS TO SUCCESS
Don’t use domain or industry specific acronyms
Define your terms as you go
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29. 4 THE LAW OF THE LESSON
The truth to be taught must be learned
through truth already known; therefore, begin
with what is already well known to the pupil
about the subject, and proceed to the new
material by single, easy, and natural steps.
30. “I have an amazing mnemonic device
by which I have now memorized all of
your names here.
-Michael Scott
31. Michael Scott: Baldy. Your head it bald. It is
hairless. It is shiny. It is reflective, like a
mirror. M. Your name is Mark.
Mark: Yes.
Michael Scott: Got it. It works!
35. 5 THE LAW OF THE TEACHING PROCESS
Teaching is arousing and using the pupil's
mind to grasp the desired thought or to master
the desired art; therefore, stimulate the pupil's
own mind to action. Keep his thought as much
as possible ahead of your expression, placing
him in the attitude of a discoverer and
anticipator.
36. BENEFITS TO JUST ANSWERING A QUESTIONS
It’s easy
It’s fast
Makes us feel smart
Provides job security
37. QUESTION AND ANSWER FLOW
It’s like predictive text, but it actually works.
Reuse the same words verbatim.
This triggers the person to start hearing your words before they
ask the question.
Extremely effective for math education.
42. QUESTION AND ANSWER FLOW
It’s like predictive text, but it actually works.
Reuse the same words verbatim.
This triggers the person to start hearing your words before they
ask the question.
Extremely effective for math education.
44. 6 THE LAW OF THE LEARNING PROCESS
The student must reproduce in his own
mind the truth to be learned; therefore,
require the pupil to reproduce in thought the
lesson he is learning---thinking it out in its
various phases and applications until he can
express it in his own language.
46. 7 THE LAW OF REVIEW AND APPLICATION
The completion, test, and confirmation of the
work of teaching must be made by review and
application; therefore, review, review, review,
reproducing the old, deepening its impression
with new thought, linking it with added
meanings, finding new applications, correcting
any false views, and completing the true.
47. In order for review and feedback to be
helpful and effective, the developer needs
to understand both the expectations and
the evaluation standard.
48. THE FIVE KEYS TO A SUCCESSFUL GOOGLE TEAM
Structure & clarity
Are goals, roles, and execution plans on our team clear?
