3 Ways to Reset a Stuck Team
Teams sometimes lose momentum. Collaboration gets harder. Work gets scattered across competing priorities. Interruptions keep things from getting done. Meetings start to feel like going… Read More
Key Ideas of the Week
Give Instructions Your Meeting Participants Can Actually Follow
It's a classic facilitation blunder: You start giving instructions for an activity, and as you're talking, people begin the activity. You try to reel in those eager participants so you can get the rest of your instructions out. Then, as everyone starts, you realize you forgot something important and need to get the group back together for more instructions. The best facilitators are extremely deliberate about how they give instructions. Read More
2 Ways We Support Internal Coaches (And Why Everyone Benefits)
Internal coaches are spread way too thin. Teams need more help than coaches can give. And coaches often get stuck going through the basics again… Read More
Agile, Documentation, and the Emerging Role of AI
It’s one of the four values in the Manifesto for Agile Software Development: “[We value] working software over comprehensive documentation.” So, can Agile teams skip… Read More
Scrum Done Right
In some orgs, Scrum just means a bunch of extra meetings and a couple of funny job titles. But if you strip away the baggage and focus on the “why” of each piece of Scrum, you end up with a minimal set of responsibilities and coordination points that pretty much… Read More
Avoiding Delegation Theater with the Team Empowerment Map
Delegation Theater: “you’re empowered as long as you make the decision I’d make, or you do the task the way I’d do it.” A leader… Read More
Too many meetings?
It might be a symptom of a deeper issue. Our big-company clients all complain about too many meetings. Their calendars are packed. Trying to schedule… Read More
Reverse Your Thinking to Reveal Hidden Solutions
Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet’s lifelong business partner at the investment firm Berkshire Hathaway, was famous for his powerful mental models and clear thinking. One… Read More
Product Management for Internal Teams
We recently talked with a leader at a company that had invested in extensive training from a well known product training company on product discovery… Read More
Make the Right Things Easy
Humans are like water—we gravitate towards the path of least resistance. Put a bunch of humans together in a team or an organization, and that… Read More