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Lead with Heart

Five simple words towards effective transformational leadership

While chatting with a client over the weekend, I realized how much my time training and teaching martial arts continues to influence the way I engage with the world. We were specifically amused with the idea of a classroom full Read more…

By Eric Willeke, 2 years2 years 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 Read more…

By Christine Hudson, 2 years2 years 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 Read more…

By Christine Hudson, 2 years2 years 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 Read more…

By Christine Hudson, 2 years2 years ago
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…

By Ronica Roth, 2 years2 years ago
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…

By Eric Willeke, 2 years2 years ago
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…

By Eric Willeke, 2 years2 years 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 Read more…

By Christine Hudson, 2 years2 years ago
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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…

By Eric Willeke, 2 years2 years ago
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…

By Ronica Roth, 2 years2 years ago

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