Spotlight on Team Building
Ben, Lead Engineer at Unqork
Ben is a Builder
Ben is the consummate problem solver. He has a long history of working through problems and building solutions. His solutioning includes leveling up an entire DMV, building toys for children, building the equivalent of a digital bank and providing open source code to make publicly traded companies, well, better. Most recently he collected and housed the data on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Manhattan while building a routing layer to get food to those in need. His expertise is as vast as being both expert software builder and ex professional yo-yoer.
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Our Work
Doing this work requires a big investment in time spent. It was critical to understand Ben’s working style and habits in order to effectively challenge and push him. This investment also allowed us to get a sense for where he learned his work habits. Ben comes from a long line of extremely hard-nosed (some may even say stubborn!) hard workers. Our work ensured Ben understood the magnitude of his contributions and enabled him to set boundaries in support of greater work life balance.
Goals
Deepen understanding of the big picture
Building team and managing for development and retention
Understanding the value of his work to the big picture
Enhance communication internally and externally
Challenge belief structures that are no longer of service
Outcomes
Developed a framework for understanding business drivers and tools for translating that into how he can best add value
Got comfortable having difficult conversations for the sake of building high performing coherent teams
Built of a communication strategy that code switches to accommodate the audience
Developed nuanced communication for engineers v. internal teammates v. leadership
Developed strategic and sales communication skills for external clients and vendor
