Expertise
Key Strength - Building Highly Productive Satisfied Teams
One of my key strengths lies in building, leading and maintaining HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE & SATISFIED teams. I believe I have a strong understanding of what makes teams happy and highly productive and how to create and maintain such teams.
From a high level perspective:
- Happy teams are highly productive and highly successful. Unhappy teams are not.
- Happy teams are highly creative and innovative. Unhappy teams are not.
- Talented people will not join or stay on unhappy teams.
- Happy teams are not easy to establish or maintain. It requires constant effort and attention. It must be an organization's #1 priority.
In my opinion, these are the key ingredients necessary to create and maintain happy teams:
- Trust, Honesty and Respect - 360 and mutual
- Empathy
- Effective Leadership
- Effective Communication
- Effective Collaboration
- Opportunity to be creative & innovative
- Opportunity & support to take risks, to fail, to learn
- Perspective & Balance
- Passion & Fun
- Clear vision & direction: team, project, studio, company
- Ownership
- Accountability
- Regular constructive 360 feedback
- Support & Facilitation - give the team what they need in order to succeed
- Encouragement
- Diversity
- Mentoring
- Effective game development, game production and project management
- Personal Growth
- Appealing & healthy environment & facilities
- Intellectual and emotional maturity
I can help development teams learn how to achieve these ingredients.
Key Strength - Uncovering Successful Strategies
Another of my key strengths is the ability to discover and/or uncover strategies that enable teams and organisations to succeed.
This ability comes from a combination of resourcefulness, perseverance, passion and the ability to achieve clarity in complex situations. I make shit happen. I find ways to achieve results. No matter what the obstacle. When the future looks bleak, rather than give up, I look for another move or option. There's always a solution somewhere. Work the problem.
Areas of Expertise
- Game Development
- Business Development
- Business Management
- Strategic Planning
- Complex Problem Solving
- Culture Building & Maintaining
- People Management
- Project Management - Agile & Traditional
- Studio Management
- Studio Creation
- Organisation Scaling
- HR
- Mentoring & Training
- Performance Management
- Financial Management
- Stake Holder Management
- Government Relations
