Delivery Culture Anchors – Safety, Ghosting and Feedback
The REAL Effect of Ghosting People | Simon Sinek - YouTube It's a tricky balance working on shifting from here to something over 'there'. Tricky because until you know your [...]
Connections Drive Delivery Cultures
I was having a conversation with an amazing life coach around the different value people place on relationships and how that impacts delivery. We got to talking about delivery approaches [...]
Creating Powerful Delivery Cultures – Escaping the Blame Trap
I am fascinated with one question, what does it take to create exceptional performance ? What makes one team, one individual succeed in this and another not ? Having [...]
Exceptional Agile – It’s the System, not the People
on the people. Either way, I suspect the results are dulled when we focus on one over the other. Why ? Because more and more I am seeing how the [...]
ShuHaRi as an Anti-pattern for Agile Exceptional Performance (The Shu Box)
Have you had this experience ? You are working with experienced agilists and are asking questions around why they are doing things the way they are ? What is the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Leadership Anti-patterns (Using Servant Leadership to Win)
I had an interesting experience the other day that highlighted an anti-pattern for Servant Leadership that I had not seen before. The context was me expressing a concern around a [...]
Agile Mastery Moment -Cultures, Systems and Growing Plants ?
Most of us at some time have had a bash at keeping a plant alive. How do you do it ? When it dies, what do you do ? Do [...]