Fear as a Positive Force
What if...instead of fear freezing and paralysing individuals and teams, what if fear was a positive force.......??? Fear inspires courage! ... Courage inspires Curiosity! ... Curiosity inspires action! ... Action [...]
Exceptional Agile Performance – Culture, Autonomy & Feedback
Exceptional Agile performance is a blend of process, practice and people. The way people use the practices and concepts around Agile determines what happens. This means that to create an environment where [...]
Exceptional Agile Performance Secrets – SEE THE WORK
Me : How does the team see its work ? Scrum Master: Oh! We use Jira! I can see the relief on the SM's face. Bullet dodged, check box checked. [...]
Creating Flow – The 20:80 Collaboration Rule
We speak about collaboration and bemoan the fact that our teams aren’t using it, but do we actually want collaboration ? Without it we can’t get work to flow inside [...]
Taking Servant Leadership to a New Level – A New Workshop (Finding Your Agile Blind Spot)
I have been working with Servant Leadership as a 3-day immersion workshop for over 2 years. The workshop is powerful as it takes participants into one of the most persistent [...]
Agile Anti-patterns : Flow!
What ? Why is Flow an anti-pattern ? Well it isn’t, unless you aren’t focused on it. When was the last time you heard someone actively talking about Flow ? When [...]
People, Roles and Flow – From Anti-pattern to Pattern
I am not a fan of roles, well at least not a fan of how big corporates use them – like a blunt instrument to keep people in a pre-defined [...]
How We Strip Greatness Away From Each Other – Living in a Culture of Smallness
We Live in a Culture of Small - No Greatness Allowed. I know this because of how I am corrected by those around me when I do something that exceeds [...]
Food for Thought – What Are We Really Saying When we Use the Phrase, “Roles & Responsibilities “?
What are we really saying when we start using the phrase ‘roles & responsibilities’ ? This is a phrase that crops up a lot, especially in the beginning of an [...]
Managing Passive Unilateral Control
What happens when as a facilitator you find yourself being challenged by a delegate who is trying their best to control the conversation and force their perspective of what is [...]