When I joined the team, the very first change I introduced was a 15-minute daily standup.
It was immediately unpopular. People resisted it. Even after a one-month trial review, some team members were still against it and saw no added value.
I decided to keep it anyway. I believed a short daily touchpoint was crucial for keeping information moving, and I knew one month wasn't enough to break old habits.
A few months later, a colleague came to me. He said that on days he started work in the afternoon without daily, he missed something. He actually looked forward to starting the day with the team together.
My job isn't to make everyone happy in the moment. It's to hold onto a decision I believe in, even when the team hasn't fully come around yet — and that's given me more confidence to make the harder calls since.
What's a decision you had to hold onto as a leader, even when your team pushed back?
This is part of my "100 Days of Year One" series. Follow along as I share what I've learned in my first year as Head of Data and Cloud.