For a little while now, Liberating Structures has been the talk of the town in Agile. For in depth information from Keith McCandless and Henri Lipmanowics, go to their website. Liberating Structures are easy-to-learn microstructures that enhance relational coordination and…
Meetings
But I don’t want to turn my video on…
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I recently did a free q/a session (my little way of paying forward and helping during this uncertain time). BTW: I will be continuing these so feel free to message me here or on LinkedIn for an invite. During the…
Uncategorized
Appreciation Post – March is for Connor
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Unfortunately, saying thank you seems to be an after thought more and more. So at least once a month, I will take a few minutes to publicly appreciate someone that has had an impact on me. This round: Connor Since…
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Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
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I know. This is a leadership blog and I’m no doctor. Yet, I think an important quality in a leader is having a “believe people have good intent” mindset. Now this is not for the extreme cases of people who…
Book Reviews, Leadership
Shame
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A while back, a friend had gifted me a book called So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, by Jon Ronson. I didn’t read it until recently, because I honestly I wasn’t in the right headspace. Plus, I have a thing about reading…
Leadership
Pet Peeve – That person has a ceiling
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This round of pet peeves is focused on my disgust of hearing “well, so-so has a ceiling. They couldn’t do that.” I haven’t done a pet peeves post lately but I happened to hear this three times in a matter…
Speaking, Techniques
Speaking tip: First few minutes
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Inspired by the facilitation tips and the learning I add when I do the Training From the Back of the Room course, I’m going to add some posts on various speaking tips. Speaker Challenge: The first 5 minutes are absolutely…
Appreciation
Appreciation Post – Kim Brainard
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Unfortunately, saying thank you seems to be an after thought more and more. So at least once a month, I will take a few minutes to publicly appreciate someone that has had an impact on me. This round: Kim Brainard…
Techniques
Facilitation Tip: Balancing Engagement
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With our new Advanced Certified ScrumMaster course, I’ve been focused on facilitation skills for leaders. I thought maybe sharing quick small facilitation techniques and tips would be a good series posts. Facilitation Challenge: As a facilitator, you have someone participating non-stop…
Training
Shameful Promotion
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Since the last post was about awesome training, I figured I should do a little shameful plug for the public offerings that I’ll listing for 2020. Leading Amazing Teams (LAT): Shortest version: Level up your leadership & coaching skills in…