Tag: Reflect
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The Balancing Act: Protecting Your Team Without Losing the Win
tldr Explore the critical leadership challenge of protecting a team’s psychological health while simultaneously holding them accountable for high-quality delivery. Watch out for the “Nurture Trap,” where over-protection leads to stagnation, and the “Delivery Delusion,” where excessive pressure causes burnout and dysfunction. Instead shoot for a “High Support, High Challenge” mindset, where accountability as an…
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Use The 4 R’s To Improve Your 3 E’s!
tldr; If your retrospectives have turned into a “complain-fest” with no action, you’re missing the chance to teach your squads a valuable lesson. Use the 4 Rs (Reflect, Root Cause, Rethink, Retool) to turn data into insights and experiments that actually move the needle for your Squad and Crew. Healthy teams improve and balance their…
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The Power Of Questions
The Power Of Questions Note: This week’s message is a collaboration between Coaches Dan, Punit and Spoorthy to explore the concept of “powerful questions” and how they can help people and teams improve. Have you every noticed how a single question can turn the course of a conversation, or help a group see things differently…
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Learn, Unlearn, Relearn
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” Alvin Toffler Continuious Improvement means continuious learning. It means undderstanding that just because something worked yesterday, doesn’t mean it will work tomorrow. It means that everything should be on the table…
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The point is to understand
📖 “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” – Albert Einstein The siren call to action can be impossible to ignore. In fact, the pressure to “do” can be so great, that we’ll look at data- make an assumption and then act without ever looking back. Albert Einstein seemed to be warning us…
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You don’t have to wait
📖 “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ― Anne Frank What are you waiting for?✔️ Reflect✔️ Set a goal✔️ Make a small change✔️ Repeat You don’t have to swing for the fences every day. Small experiments bring about small changes that add up over…
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Everything is not fact…
📖 “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” ― Marcus Aurelius It’s easy to be so confident in a direction or a belief, that we forget to reflect. Challenge yourself to reflect and identify bias in your own thinking. You may be surprised…
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Say agility more…
I was having a random conversation with another coach last week, and we had a bit of a shared ‘ah ha’ moment. We, as champions of agility, say the word “agile” (as though it were a destination, or a goal,) way more than we should.Perhaps WE, as coaches, scrum masters, and champions, need to challenge…
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Candle or Fire
“Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment.” ― Kamand Kojouri It’s a fine line- balancing between helping your partners achieve a goal, and teaching them the skills (and building the experience) necessary to achieve their goals over and…