Dealing w Dysfunctional Styles of Behavior
đź’ˇ Do you work with a “brilliant asshole”? Transform dysfunction into collaboration. Identify strengths, separate behavior from person, and invite honesty. 🔄 #Collaboration #TeamDynamics
Category: Retrospectives
Retrospective: A structured practice of collectively examining recent experiences to identify opportunities for improvement. It enables amplifying problems, simplifying complex issues through focused analysis, and rewiring the social circuitry towards transparency, alignment, and sustained positive change. Retrospectives foster continuous learning and iterative refinement – essential for high performance.
It’s Time to Ditch the Annual Performance Review
How many of us look forward to the traditional annual performance review? I mean really, whether you are on the presenting or receiving side of things… it is not the highlight of the year for anyone I know. I believe there’s a better way – Team Roundtable Reviews.
Helping Team Members Stretch Their Communication Muscles: Kantor Four Player Model
It takes many different mindsets and behaviors to make a team hum. I am appreciating a view of collaborative behaviors developed by David Kantor (as part of his work on Structural Dynamics), and am finding it useful as a way to hold up a mirror to a team that is interested in understanding and improving their communication.Â
The “Thieves of Time” Retrospective
While a team can rollback a code push that didn’t go well, refactor a feature that didn’t hit the mark, the one thing they can never recover is lost time. Use this retrospective technique to expose the thieves of time pestering your team,
Agile, Lean: What’s the Diff?
Unpack the relationship between Lean and Agile. Lean, rooted in Toyota’s system, emphasizes value, quality, and rapid response to market demand. It’s about eliminating waste, respecting people, and optimizing the whole. Lean and Agile, when combined, expose problems and catalyze continuous improvement. 🔄🚀 #Lean #Agile