Blog - Guillermo de la Puente

Located in Xábia (Jávea), a Mediterranean coastal town in Spain, the coliving Sun and Co. has a great location, community, and environment for remote workers.

This blog post is to share some lessons I've learned as a hiring manager: Participate in Sourcing, Always Be Planting Seeds, Build Trust with Recruiting, and Set the Bar High with Candidate Experience.

This question brought clarity and alignment to a hard-to-follow discussion. I was so surprised about the result that I wrote this blog post.

Asking no-oriented questions has improved my ability to influence others. Also, applying this technique to myself has pushed me to get done tedious but meaningful tasks I felt lazy about.

Have you ever feel frustrated that a process or tool you rolled out didn't get adopted? I surely have. I'd ask myself why the heck the team wasn't doing that thing I asked them to do and made so much work for. The problem? My mindset.

Handing off a direct report to another manager can be stressful for the report and the new manager. It's better to explain the process to both of them before, and then run with it.

In the past, I've spent many hours preparing each performance review. This year, I've followed a more structured approach. Now, my summaries are more accurate with what the direct report wrote for each question. Which leads to a better mutual understanding. And sets the right stage for the peer and manager sections of the performance review.

One of the teams I manage has 5 members distributed between 5 cities. Wow! How would you go about making such a team start getting along? Here comes Team Building With Art, one of my tactics for creating a space to connect as a team.

The very nature of organizations consists on collaboration, which means two or more people working together towards shared goals. We know collaboration is a good thing: in doing so, people can achieve bigger goals than the ones they would attain working individually. However, both personal experience and scientific studies tell us that it isn’t as simple as putting a group of people together for the positive effects of collaboration to happen. In fact, working together can also be detrimental.

An inspiring and useful book. Reading Atomic Habits by James Clear was quite a journey for me. I share one of my favorite sections with the positive intention of spreading the word and encouraging you to read the full book.

Training my mind through meditation has enabled me to find calm more easily, slow down the pace, dissolve stress and boost my confidence in order to achieve my resolutions. It’s been one of the biggest life improvements I’ve made recently. But not every meditation style resonates with me. It was when I read Passage Meditation by Eknath Easwaran that I found the right method for me. It might be the right method for you as well.

LinkedIn showed an excellent example of applying persuasion techniques on the last email I received from them, in September 2018.