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My Management Experiment: What Motivates Your Team?
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Sunday, July 26, 2015. What Motivates Your Team? How do you know what motivates your team? I value curiosity, freedom and acceptance. It's an easy mistake to make decisions based on your own motivations - but what about your team? How do you, as a leader make decisions that align with their motivations? It starts with the following 10 cards that can be remembered with the acronym CHAMPFROGS:. You can the download the below cards from the Management 3.0 website. Here are the 2 steps I take with my team:.
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My Management Experiment: Are you Really an Agile Team?
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Are you Really an Agile Team? Easy to Understand but Hard to Apply. Many of us claim to be Agile teams. Our team made this claim until a colleague ( Brian Keirstead. Challenged us on how we were ignoring some basic practices of Scrum. Here are some of the reasons why he pointed out that we weren't a Scrum team:. We had a single 15-20 person team. We did not have a formal Sprint Planning. Our backlog was scattered across a couple of excel spreadsheets. The Pain Means Your Growing.
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My Management Experiment: Your Agile Mindset is Limited
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Saturday, July 18, 2015. Your Agile Mindset is Limited. We're Great - And You Are Not. In the book Tribal Leadership, David Logan speaks about 5 distinct cultural stages we see in organizations. Stage 1 - Life Sucks. Stage 2 - My Life Sucks. Stage 3 - I'm Great . And You Are Not. Stage 4 - We're Great. And You Are Not. Stage 5 - Life's Great. Organizations are very uncommon and are only seen in prisons and criminal organizations. Approximately 50% of workplace culture. Cultures operate at a level of.
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My Management Experiment: Big Ego's and Star Trek
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Sunday, July 5, 2015. Big Ego's and Star Trek. That's a lot of Ego. Transactional Analysis is a very accessible theory of modern psychology. It's been a great tool for me to engage in "Adult-to-Adult" conversations. The following 10 minute video is a great introduction to the concepts. It's an obvious statement to say that Leadership is largely about people. However, attending Greg Witz's Leadership workshop. For myself, when I'm feeling creative and generating ideas. As a Star Trek geek, I noticed many ...
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My Management Experiment: The Three Gaps
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Tuesday, July 7, 2015. Giving Direction and the "Three Gaps". Stephen Bungay in the book "Art of Action" describes how the Prussian military successfully provided strategic intent, freeing troops to respond creatively to uncertainty and unpredictability. The following "three gaps" describe challenges between Plans. The red text below. Is how we incorrectly respond to a gap. The green text. Is how Bungay suggests we should respond. With waterfall, the Knowledge Gap was approached by. Cascading intent allo...
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My Management Experiment: July 2015
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Are you Really an Agile Team? Easy to Understand but Hard to Apply. Many of us claim to be Agile teams. Our team made this claim until a colleague ( Brian Keirstead. Challenged us on how we were ignoring some basic practices of Scrum. Here are some of the reasons why he pointed out that we weren't a Scrum team:. We had a single 15-20 person team. We did not have a formal Sprint Planning. Our backlog was scattered across a couple of excel spreadsheets. The Pain Means Your Growing.
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My Management Experiment: June 2015
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015. I've got a crappy memory. To compensate I carry around index cards while away from my computer, and transcribe my notes onto my GTD ( Get Things Done. Text file. It's archaic, but I've found pen and paper are far more natural and keep conversations fluid. I take with me little "cheat sheets" of discoveries that have become a part of my leadership toolkit. Feel free to download the toolkit here. They fit nicely on the back of index cards. Below is how we incorrectly respond to a ga...
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My Management Experiment: How to Build a High Performance Team
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015. How to Build a High Performance Team. Culture-fit doesn't need to be Voodoo Magic. Having a team with cross-functional skills is fundamental for Agile teams. Culture-fit can push these teams to a higher performance. This doesn't need to be a "from-the-gut" activity. Here are three steps I have taken to build teams with the right culture fit:. Select individuals with similar core-values. Pair "Professors" and "Entrepreneur" within a team. Wants to get it done perfectly. Tends to ...
