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Deliver with Confidence

A Small, Simple–and Critical–Move Toward Better Meetings

Look in your calendar. How clear is the desired outcome of each meeting you’ll attend today? How is each meeting setting the tone, the culture of your organization? Often our meetings have grown a bit stale; they often need a bit of a re-think and re-design. (And we’re too often Read more…

By Christine Hudson, 1 month1 month ago
Lead with Heart

Icebreakers We Love and Why We Love Them

Not all icebreakers add value to a meeting. Here are some we love and why we love them. We frequently include icebreakers in our meetings, starting with the basic goals: Get people participating Help the humans see each other as humans (vs the various issues or positions they might represent) Read more…

By Christine Hudson, 2 months2 months ago
Practice Makes Culture

20 Questions for Amazing Authors About Their Book Writing Journeys

The Elevate team is lucky to know some amazing humans who have written some of the books we most recommend to help leaders deliver practical, successful, sustainable transformation. What would you ask your favorite business book authors if you had the chance to interview them about the book writing process? Read more…

By Christine Hudson, 2 months2 months ago
Deliver with Confidence

The Wrong Tool for the Job

I was speaking to a GM friend the other day and they mentioned that they’ve moved away from agile and are now using more design thinking. It’s another post entirely to share what they meant when they said that–but the language itself is interesting. Lean, agile, devops, design thinking are Read more…

By Christine Hudson, 3 months3 months ago
Practice Makes Culture

Continuing the Learning

One of the amazing transformation leaders I’ve been working with recently asked for more good ideas for continued learning: “Beyond the SAFe Community are there other national groups or forums you might recommend I get plugged into to keep up to speed on Agile and SAFe? Looking to stay better Read more…

By Christine Hudson, 3 months3 months ago
Deliver with Confidence

Deliberate Empowerment

One of the most common questions I’ve been asked as both a transformation leader and transformation facilitator is “how do I effectively empower my leaders?”. There are some lovely tools for iterating towards higher levels of empowerment and some small but powerful practices (updates to your own behavior and language) Read more…

By Christine Hudson, 3 months3 months ago
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 are much more useful than others.) Have more questions after Read more…

By Christine Hudson, 4 months4 months ago
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 sure we’re prioritizing them, and saying no or “not yet” Read more…

By Christine Hudson, 5 months1 month ago
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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 a few days, and just before we left, when all Read more…

By Christine Hudson, 6 months6 months ago
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, habit change, and facilitating organizational change, but for today, I’d Read more…

By Christine Hudson, 6 months6 months ago

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