Influencing Virtual Teams

Learn the psychological secrets of persuasion that influence your remote employees to do what you need them to do. Stop chasing down your employees to make sure that their work is being done. In Hassan Osman’s “Influencing Virtual Teams” you’ll get step-by-step tactics that you can implement straightaway with your …

Humble Inquiry

“We live, says Ed Schein, in a culture of Tell. Rather than trying to genuinely relate to other people we tell them what we think they need to know or should do based on assumptions we’ve made about them. But telling makes people feel inferior–it shuts them down. This is …

The Human Side of Agile

As an Agile team leader, your biggest challenge is also your biggest asset. The human side of Agile is tricky. It’s the least manageable, understood, and appreciated asset in an Agile environment. Even if your customers are reasonably happy and your developers seem to be doing okay, you know your …

The Power of a Good (User) Story

Ever since the dawn of our species, we’ve told stories.

We’ve sung them, told them around campfires, painted them on cave walls, drew them on clay pots and canvases, woven them in tapestries and carved them into stone. Eventually we wrote them down.

Today, we share stories via sticky notes, podcasts, town halls, planning meetings and daily scrums.

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