Posted on Oct 23 I am looking outside the window. The sun is shining in Prague, but It's cold. I have a meeting with a mentee, and we discuss a problem like an epidemic - it happens worldwide and affects you badly.I can share a few details from that conversation and what plan we have drawn together to fix that. As Technical Program Managers, we have a holistic view of the system. At some point, you are conversing with a team member, and they need to be made aware of a significant change or a high-priority task due soon. They claim they have no idea where this is coming from or why they should care. But you know. The CEO communicated it at that critical meeting last Thursday!Being a Technical Program Manager always helps get an additional perspective into most problems. Let's apply some basic knowledge here on the class design that usually goes with object-oriented programming. You'll see that the diagram needs to be corrected; it's just for visualization purposes.We have a speaker who belongs to our company and has incredible experience who would like to talk to many (1..*) listeners with their qualities and spread a message. runmeetingandWait()Raise your virtual hand 🙋 if you are in a meeting where one person always speaks but does not say anything that could interest you.If you are in a larger group, that could be fine because the speaker might need to address different audience segments, and something could interest you further. If this repeats and you feel that most people are always lost, or it happens in smaller meetings, you must do something.People are frustrated by one-way communication and believe this wastes time. If you keep letting your teams be demoralized and spend time in wasteful activities, this will end up with people losing trust in specific nodes of your organization. Trust is the foundation of success, so you should carefully monitor for these symptoms.I am a big believer of the positive intent. No one would like to waste an or more of your time in a work-related environment. Let's focus on a few observations and ideas for improving the three main parts - the speaker, the listener, and the medium - and prepare a fix for our bug. 🐛The message was not received even after it was broadcast. What could we do to fix the emitter of the message?The message was not received even after it was broadcast. What do you think we could do to fix the receiver of the message?The message was not received even after it was broadcast. What do you think we could do to fix the message?Has this happened to you? How did you fix it? What mistake did we make in our plan?Working together with others is crucial for a TPM. Thinking about people first is one of the skills that makes you an excellent program manager.As Kreator says:If night will fall, Black shadows are taking our sight, We carry each other through the darkest moments in life. Stronger than hate, stronger than fear, stronger than all I am a people-centric Technical Program Manager. I created a different newsletter that you could subscribe to for free:If you want more helpful content, no spam, in your mailbox, click on the two links:Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use.Yo! This is an interesting post, Bogomil. Just a heads up, that it looks like little bit of your post did not carry over from the original here — the "Share Your Thoughts" and "Heavy Metal" section (which I particularly dug 🤘)... regardless, I enjoyed this read.I really like the guidance and questions for consideration you wrote out for the speaker, the listener, and the medium. So many problems stem back to poor, inflexible communication... the advice you shared here is really good for tightening comms up and making sure everybody is actively listening and participating. Great advice!Thanks, Michael. I'll fix the text immediately :)I think it's complete now :)I wonder how many of my 1100 follower will actually see this :_) Ya rock Bogomil! Also, loving the embed for the Kreator tune. 🎸The heavy metal can inspire us for many thing :) Are you sure you want to hide this comment? It will become hidden in your post, but will still be visible via the comment's permalink. Hide child comments as well Confirm For further actions, you may consider blocking this person and/or reporting abuse Sospeter Mongare - Sep 20 Naomi Chopra - Oct 4 Bhavesh Yadav - Sep 24 GetBlockio - Oct 13 Once suspended, bogomil will not be able to comment or publish posts until their suspension is removed. Once unsuspended, bogomil will be able to comment and publish posts again. 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