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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Servant Leadership Anti-patterns (If I am not Right, I am Incompetent)
It is often hard to explain the shift out of unilateral control and into Servant or Humble Leadership. I am finding that using anti-patterns helps. This is one that I [...]
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 [...]
Mastery Moment – Servant Leadership Thinking Anti Patterns (Being Right)
There are a number of thinking patterns that compromise Agility and collaboration. One of the more common is the need to be right. Think about it. How often do you [...]