Tag: Coach’s challenge
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A 15-minute a day habit that your teams will thank you for!
I get it – you’re busy! It’s the end of the year. Performance reviews are due (or late!) Holidays are coming up. Projects are in critical phases. End of year “spend it or lose it” time with budgets. Probably some annual planning work in there somewhere too! Busy, busy, busy! I can’t think of a…
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Coach’s Challenge – “Be Humble”
I was doing some reading on the topic of “servant leadership” last week, and I rediscovered an article in Harvard Business Review that I’d read a couple years back. In it, the author explores the concept of leaders serving the people they lead rather than trying to exert control. The author really highlights the point that…
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Leader’s Challenge – Change your language- Stop Telling. Start Asking.
Empowered teams self organize around a shared objective, and optimize themselves around achieving it. That all starts with team members who feel empowered, and frankly… that starts with you! “I want you actively to train your people on how to think for themselves” – Eiji Toyoda “Think more like a gardener, less like a general.”…
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Coach’s Challenge – Show your appreciation
The most important people in any company are the ones who make valuable things for your customer. In our complex world, very few things can be done without the help of teammates, partners or other critical helpers. Take a moment and acknowledge the people who help you create and deliver value. Showing genuine appreciation for…
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Coach’s Challenge – Who do you want to be?
I was dutifully going through my LinkedIn notifications this weekend and stumbled upon a quote shared by Daniel Abrahams. Now mind you, I don’t know who Daniel Abrahams even is, (someone I linked to in the past liked what he had to say,) but I have to tell you – the quote gave me pause. “Sometimes…
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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 our teammates. Commitment to ourselves! Agility also means allowing the opportunity for things to change. We are ok with ambiguity, because…
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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” (or even normal) to share ideas or perspectives that may be counter to what the rest of the group is…
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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 mindset and looking to continuously improve! One way to encourage an agile team culture is to start treating mistakes…
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Coach’s Challenge – Do you control your commanding?
So first and foremost – kudos if you got past that horrible pun of a title. I’m (obviously?) thinking about the concept of command and control, and how as agile managers we can sometimes struggle with the voices in our head. You know what I’m talking about – the ones that say “Failure is not an…
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How do YOU define AGILE?
I received the best email from an agile marketer yesterday (if you want to see it, look to your right…) It came at the perfect time and made me feel proud to be working with these marketing teams. Now I always knew that our Marketers are among the very best and most creative in the…