Hey guys, it’s another week of the newbies initiative and so a report is due for the previous week’s performance. We’re almost halfway through the journey and I hope that newbies are really learning in this initiative.

The theme for last week was Hive Keys and Security and the lesson was nicely delivered by @nkemakonam89. The Discord discussion was focused on teaching newbies about the different keys that control their accounts, how to safely store and secure their accounts and why, and how to recover their accounts if there’s ever any suspicious behavior, they don’t recognize on it.

As usual, the task on the discussion rolled out and required newbies to demonstrate their understanding of what was discussed. This post is my team leader's report on the team-2’s responses to the task and their overall performance last week.

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General Team Performance

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Last week’s attendance in task submission is honestly nothing to write home about. It was utterly poor. Most of the team didn’t start submitting their tasks until a day to the deadline. This late submission puts pressure on both you team members and team members and team leaders as we’ll have many posts to check then.

Talking about the team members that attempted the task, it wasn’t just the late submission, but nearly half the team did not submit their tasks last week. This week, only 5 team members submitted their task. Their task links are below.

Newbie	Task Link
@newnow497	Task 3 Post Here
@tuisada	Task 3 Post Here
@nhaji01	Task 3 Post Here
@zzzinnn	Task 3 Post Here
@amiableamara	Task 3 Post Here

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Some Observations and Comments

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I noticed that some of the team members write great (even amazing) tasks, but fail to engage with the other team members and so you’ll notice that there’s no engagement on their posts either. Remember guys, if you want your friend to visit you, you have to visit them too. People are more likely to interact with you if you interact with them as well. Building connections involve reciprocal transactions (engagements).

Another thing is also that some team members revealed part of their keys in their screenshots when they were demonstrating certain things in the task. I would highly advise against this as you could on another occasion share the remaining part of the keys you left out this time, creating an opportunity for people to get a complete set of your keys and therefore access to your account. I would advise that even if you HAD to share it in a screenshot (which will most likely never be the case), find a way to blur the keys so that they’re not revealed.

I have to acknowledge that I saw some diversity in the approach to the task this week and I’m proud. Whereas some approached it head-on like a task, a few were diverse and opened like a story. Also, the thumbnails keep improving, getting better and better with every task. Great job, guys.

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My thanks go to @vickoly the instructor for team 2 for all the reminders and tips he’s giving me on how to handle the team, and to @nkemakonam89 also for the guidance and reminders. @starstrings01 birthed this initiative and many are grateful and benefitting from it. I also commend my colleague team leaders and boss men @moremoney28 and @justfavour for the awesome work they’re doing. And to theycallmedan, lazypanda and aliento for the support they give this initiative.