The best leaders know that before you can truly lead your team, you need to serve your team.
4 Habits for Strong Communication & Effective Remote Collaboration
From Hack the Crisis to the Scottish brewer using his facility to manufacture and distribute hand sanitizer, right now, humans are doing what we do best: adapting. Everyone’s coming together around a single idea — finding creative ways to connect and do business...
Successful Leaders Embrace the SWOT to Increase Their Agility
If the recent coronavirus pandemic upended the strategic growth plans of your organization — plans you created in the optimistic environment of an 11-year stock market bull run — you’re not alone. And you’re not without resources. How well your team or...
Decide how you are going to decide
Deciding how you are going to decide can be the most important team decision you can make. Clarity in your teams decision making modes can unlock your team productivity.
Systems Thinking for Transformative Change (webinar)
This webinar is part of Scrum Alliance® Certified Agile Leadership learning series. Culture change is free - comparison of systems leverage points for transformations Culture of an organization often gets blamed for lack of transformation success. In this session you...
Scrum Master stances
Here are Scrum Master stances. Although default stance for a scrum master is to be in service to their scrum team. Where in she is identifying and removing impediments to serve their team. By improving organizational systems so that impediments do not recur they serve...
Satir Change Model
The Satir Change model applies to individuals as well as systems of individuals. It is one of the cornerstones of the family therapist Virginia Satir’s work on how change takes place. Late Status Quo A fairly stable system (individual or groups) with predictable...
Sharing Values, a team building exercise
A few months ago, I was facilitating sprint retrospective for a multi-cultural team that had members of different national origins (UK, South Africa, Angola and United States). We started gathering information regarding their first sprint. I realized that this team...