Collaboration: the action of working with someone to produce or create something. An essential skill for high performance agile and scrum teams.
I frequently have conversations with individuals and teams about something that is holding them back: Fear of conflict. Fear of conflict has the potential to keep team members from expressing their opinion, questions, solutions, analyses, and investigations. Fear can result in paralysis and catastrophizing (making things seem worse than they …
Join me for a series of live-online conversations exploring the most crucial adaptive leadership question of the day:
“What, if anything, about the way people are leading today needs to change in order for leaders to be successful in a complex, rapidly changing environment where we’re faced with seemingly intractable challenges and an insatiable demand for innovation?”
When’s the last time you explored the intrinsic and extrinsic motivations that drive you and your teammates?
One of the easiest and definitely most fun ways to do so is to play Moving Motivators!
After many years of being part of 100% collocated teams, I’ve returned to working with 100% distributed, virtual, or remote teams. To remain effective, high-performing distributed teams rely on a number of important factors such as trust, ownership, a focus on results, and effective communication to get stuff done.
Three rivers – Trust, Ownership, and Vision – flow and converge into a confluence that helps create the necessary conditions for high performance, self-managing teams. Teams that adapt quickly to what their customers want. Teams that deliver great business value at a sustainable pace. Teams that are filled with happy people. …
