When a Team Isn’t Performing
If a team is underperforming, what options do you have as a leader? During a recent Humanizing Work Community of Practice session, we discussed 3… Read More
Cracking the Code of Effective Leadership with the Leadership Circle
Developing effective leadership skills can be challenging. It's difficult to even describe what makes a leader effective, let alone create a practical plan to improve your own leadership capabilities. In this episode, Peter & Richard introduce their favorite leadership development tool: The Leadership Circle. This model provides language to identify behaviors that limit a leader's effectiveness. It also highlights capabilities that are associated with effective leadership. By using the model to assess your own leadership, you can learn how to reduce those limiting behaviors and increase your effectiveness. Read More
Coaching Skills Are a Multiplier
If you’ve been following our work for any length of time, you know that you’re not going to get the best results from your team… Read More
Interview with Lee McCormack
In this episode, Richard and Peter interview world-class mountain bike coach Lee McCormack. If you’re a coach or leader of any kind—or if you just care about your own growth and development—this episode is packed with advice and inspiration. Read More
Is a Definition of Ready a Good Idea?
A Definition of Ready can be a useful working agreement for a Scrum team or it can be a step away from healthy, dynamic collaboration… Read More
Do we need a sprint goal?
In this episode, Richard and Peter talk about sprint goals. When are they useful? What might you do instead? Read More
Getting the First 5 Minutes of a Meeting Right
Ever facilitated a meeting that just seems to keep going off the rails? Often, whether a meeting is going to feel like that or just… Read More
Visionary vs Facilitating Product Ownership
In this episode, Richard and Peter answer a question that’s essentially: “Most of the standard Product Ownership advice doesn’t seem to apply to my situation. Am I just doing Product Ownership wrong?” They discuss two modes of Product Ownership—visionary and facilitating—and when each one is the right approach. Read More
Dealing with Interruptions on a Scrum Team
It’s day 2 of a sprint. You’ve got 2 weeks of valuable work to do, and the team is off to a good start. Suddenly,… Read More
Designing Good Experiments
Complex problems, whether in product development or organizational change require an experimental approach. In this episode, Richard and Peter answer a question about how to design good experiments (or probes, to use the Cynefin term). Read More
