Learning Minute – Story Points Aren’t Valuable
Not my best picture, but I found I have reached the limits of my drawing. Imagine you have spent 3 months delivering window winders! I guess this only works for [...]
Mastery Moment – Are You Assuming People Are Idiots ?
What we think about people is how we treat them. We tend to come from the belief that every day, the people we meet got up and said, “Today I [...]
The Lady Who Didn’t Fit (Experiences from Servant Leadership)
The shift to Servant Leadership isn’t always about leaders or experts who need to stop dictating and being bullies. Leaders lead people and how those people show up often determines [...]
Learning Minute : When You Say, “Yes!”, What Are You Saying, “No!” To ?
You have a jar. It is for sweets. You have been told that the jar must always be full – there will be severe consequences if you have an empty [...]
Personal Mastery Moment – Finding Your Courage
Can you describe something that is courageous ? (Ask the team)Listen for a story that describes a courageous act – someone doing something that everyone else was too terrified to [...]
The Expert who Became a Servant Leader (Experiences from Servant Leadership)
I often fall into the trap of trying to logically explain what the 3 day Servant Leadership and 2 day Personal Mastery workshops are about. In a nutshell I create [...]
Learning Minute – Things That Block Flow
What are some of the things that we know block flow ? (Ask the team) You may hear some of these options, if not, add them in Not having [...]
Personal Mastery – It’s all Inside
This mastery moment revolves around a story of a monk who needed a time out from the monastery. So he took a rowing boat out onto the lake. It was [...]
Learning Minute – How Leadership Changes in Agile Systems
We spend a lot of time talking about how the processes change when we are in an Agile system, but not a lot of time about how we should change [...]
Meet Up Magic – What I Learnt about Servant Leadership
Today was the first ever Servant Leadership meet up (well at least in Gauteng) and boy was I impressed. We had some really interesting conversations, exploring how cultures are generated, [...]