Created #hey-pete-look channel for engineering visibility and recognition

Situation

Created a Slack channel #hey-pete-look for engineering managers to share wins and significant accomplishments. Two purposes: (1) provide Peter visibility to enable recognition when things go well, (2) create cross-team visibility of accomplishments. Committed to look at everything shared, but not necessarily comment on everything.

Reasoning

Heard repeatedly that not providing visible enough praise - this is a structural solution to that feedback. Nathan demonstrated the value by sending links to significant accomplishments - scaling that model. Cross-team visibility of wins addresses silo problem. Setting expectations clearly manages workload while committing to visibility. Systematic fix - creating process/structure rather than relying on ad-hoc recognition.

Additional Context

Response to feedback about insufficient visible praise. Nathan has been doing a good job sending links to significant team accomplishments. Also updated mini-me to be vigilant about this channel.

Observed Evidence

Slack messages: "Gentlemen - I created this channel for two reasons. First, I keep hearing that Im not providing visible enough praise when things happen that are good. Nathan especially has started doing a fantastic job of sending me links to things that members of his teams do that are really significant. Allows me to comment... Second, we dont have enough visibility between teams of things that happen that are great" and "I dont promise to comment on everything. But I do promise to look at it all, and if its really something significant for CIQ to make sure people involved feel recognized."

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