If you want to run a project, you have to be willing to pull people up on things

[iteles]

When you're working with a company like dwyl with a very specific ethos (see manifesto) and where everyone is so genuinely amazing ❤️ it can be really easy to just want to be everyone's friend.

But in my experience, when running a project/group of projects, like people are at dwyl, you have to be willing to be the 'bad guy' and hand out some tough love if it's warranted.

When someone makes a mistake or shirks processes, you should absolutely put on your "docendo discimus" hat and coach them through it. But when they do that same thing 3 times, you have to be willing to take them aside and tell them that's not ok for the good of your team.

Even if you feel like you're saying the same thing 20 times and "you know how that must sound". Even if you think it makes you sound like the biggest pain on Earth.
Even if you think you might not get invited to the next after-work drinks.
You do it with respect, but you do it.

To be clear, this is not about imposing an opinion. What you are saying must come from personal experience and that your goal is to stop them from having to step in front of those same bullets. It is a conversation that needs to be had with your team, just don't shy away from having it.