Lead with Heart
Why the Elephant?
The Elephant connects to several aspects of our work and mission. We share how elephants represent our “why”
Practice Makes Culture
Why the ‘B’ in BRP
Sometimes when I’m working with a client to design and facilitate a Big Room Planning event [see Christine’s post on the various types of and agendas for BRPs], a client tries to segment the participant list. They want to invite Read more…
Lead with Heart
Start with why… I want to, but how?
As coaches and change agents, we are so often told to ‘start with why’. As someone who’s used Sinek’s golden circle thinking tool for a very long time, I’m a huge proponent of this. However, while there is often unified Read more…
Deliver with Confidence
Five ways to commit: Exploring sprint planning models
This year’s SPCT day and SAFe Summit had me thinking about some of the variations of I’ve used for team-level activities over the last seventeen (!) years. One of the big things that has served me well is having a Read more…
Deliver with Confidence
Leveraging Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) to Improve Products–and Meetings?
In looking to help explain how we design and facilitate value-driven, culture-changing meetings, I find I regularly need to explain how I leverage JTBD. (There are a ton of different ways to describe and use JTBD out there and some Read more…
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Acts of appreciation: Preserving greatness
I recently drove along the rim road of the Grand Canyon as part of a road trip. Being there, surrounded by nature, aware of the effort to maintain it, and reflecting on life and journeys, led me to reflect on Read more…
Practice Makes Culture
Stand-ups, not Status Meetings
The stand-up meeting, which we get from Scrum, can be one of the more magical, simple agile practices, helping the humans connect and collaborate and work as a team. But most of the stand-ups I observe fail to achieve the Read more…
Lead with Heart
Too Many Meetings? Stack Rank Them in a Prioritized Backlog
I hear so many amazing humans in F1000, F500, F10 companies talking about having meetings from 7 to 6, from 8 to 6… and then trying to do their “actual” work after that. Meetings are “actual” work, so let’s make Read more…
Steer with Clarity
Clarity Is Hard
Lessons in leadership keep me humble, and remind me what we need to keep learning. Join the conversation on LinkedIn to share how you provide clarity in your org. Clarity is Job #1 for leaders. The greatest gift you can Read more…
Lead with Heart
Leave the World a Little Better than You Found It
My family would go camping up at Turquoise Lake when I was young. My brother and I loved sleeping in the tent, cooking outside, hiking to find wild strawberries, and playing in and around the lake. We would stay for Read more…
Practice Makes Culture
Practice Makes Culture
What we each practice as conscious behaviors (and habits) shapes the culture of our relationship with ourselves, with our partners, within our organizations, within our country, across countries and throughout our world. I’ll follow this post with others on culture, Read more…