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Weekly notes for managers stuck in the Vise, teams tired of mistaking motion for progress, and anyone who’s sat through a meeting wondering where the energy in the room just went.

Happy National Beverage Day

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National Hanging Out Day

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Coach’s Challenge – Today is another opportunity!

Embracing an agile culture and mindset mean that every day, every sprint, every iteration we have another opportunity to honor commitments. Commitment to delivering value to our shared customer. Commitment to our sprint (or iteration) goals. Commitment to…

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Happy National Chili Day

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Happy National Do A Grouch A Favor Day

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Happy National Compliment Day

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Happy National Clean Off Your Desk Day

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National Answer The Phone Like Buddy The Elf Day

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Coach’s Challenge – Conduct a Black Hat Review

In the last post, I challenged you to start seeing mistakes as opportunities for your team to improve and grow.  This week our coaching challenge is designed to help your team improve its psychological safety by making it “ok”…

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Coach’s challenge! – Schedule a “Mistakes Meeting”

Schedule your very own Mistakes Meeting! Creating a culture within (and across) a team that encourages people to live and breath the agile values and principles requires trust, and that takes being transparent, having a growth…

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