Don’t Panic: The Remote Leader’s Guide to Psychological Safety
The transition to remote leadership is tough. But it's also an opportunity to learn to lead through influence & generate higher performance.
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VAST – Virtuous Cycle for Connection
It’s all about how we show up. If we show up in a way that invites people to connect, to trust, to feel safer than usual, they probably will. And astonishing results will follow. Olaf and I have a vast experience of limiting our results because we didn’t dare to show up, speak up, stand up. We’ve been not daring, not trying, not challenging, most of our lives—like most people! We’ve learned the hard way how to show up in a way that enables connection, and impact.
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Don’t Weaponize Agile
(Title was: Stop Using Agile as a Whip and Shield)
I hate “Agile” Initiatives because of the damage they usually cause. The problem is that when people start thinking that “Agile” is the goal they start to weaponize “Agile” and use it as a Whip or a Shield.
How to Hard-Wire Happiness to Develop your Leadership Capacity
Would it be useful to learn how to hard-wire you happiness so that you can be a more effective leader? Or just a happy person? Read on as we explore the key ideas in Rick Hanson’s book Hardwiring Happiness. The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence.
How to Go Fast With Sticky Notes
Agile teams and innovators use sticky notes in group meetings to share ideas, organize thoughts and get to consensus. I created some guidance on using sticky notes to help people just getting started or for those who want to go faster. Here are some simple guidelines to go fast.
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Connecting the Dots on Agile, Org Culture, Personal Growth & Temenos
A friend of mine asked me what is going on with all this touchy-feely people and personal growth stuff – “What’s it got to do with Agile?” My answer: everything! So this post ties together: Agile, High-Performance Culture with People skills and Temenos Workshop among others.
Temenos – A Workshop for Healing, Connection and Relational Flow
(Joint post with Olaf Lewitz)
What is Temenos?
Temenos is also the name of a special kind of experiential laboratory (usually delivered as a weekend lab) that Siraj Sirajuddin has created over many years integrating diverse influences. He’s been using these labs to support lean and agile transformations in his practice as an Organisational Transformation Mentor. Read More
Create Authentic Connections with Influence Maps
(Joint post with Olaf Lewitz – Temenos Series)
In the course of our lives, we all encounter events that shape us, allow us to change and grow, that have made us who we are. We don’t tend to acknowledge or appreciate these events, and we rarely share them. Understanding our own path, reflecting how we became who we are, which influences determined what we value and what we want, is a powerful source of personal growth. We better understand our own unique identity, our relationships with others and the related emotional baggage to the load we carry around in our lives.
Anatomy of Peace – A Model for Communication
The Anatomy of Peace is a deeply insightful book about how our default thinking processes lead us to conflict with others and reveals a path towards peace.
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Empathy Workshop – Results and Instructions
This past Fall I delivered a training module on Empathy as part of a day long communication and teamwork training. In this post, I will give you step by step instructions on running an empathy workshop as well as share some interesting results from my session. Please see How to Express Empathy – Avoid the Traps! for my understanding empathy.
How to Express Empathy – Avoid the Traps!
The biggest challenge with Empathy is that we block our connection with another person's emotions as a self-protection activity. Once we overcome this we can really connect with people.
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