Tag: management 3.0
21 New Year’s Resolutions for Scrum Masters
The end of the year is nearby, time for some New Year’s resolutions! Last year we provided some help to get started for busy Scrum Product Owners, this year we want to support busy Scrum Masters. Here are 21 new year’s resolutions to get you started Stop being a representative for the teams you work with, let the team represent themselves. Slow down to speed up....
Management 3.0 Brown Bag Sessions now available!
Brown Bag session??? I'm sure a lot of you who aren't native English speakers might be wondering what a brown bag session is, so let's start with that. The brown bag refers to the brown paper bag traditionally used to bring a sandwich or other lunch items. To complete the reference, a brown bag session is therefore a short (usually 1 hour) session over lunch or...
How to find your ikigai
Ikigai is a Japanese concept meaning "a reason for being". Everyone, according to the Japanese, has an ikigai. Finding it requires a deep and often lengthy search of self. Such a search is regarded as being very important, since it is believed that discovery of one's ikigai brings satisfaction and meaning to life. Many (smart) organisations are trying to find a way to motivate and engage their work force in order to provide more...
The Four Levels of the Skill Matrix
Lately I've been seeing the classic skill matrix used more and more in companies in order to create teams and identify knowledge gaps. The tool is excellent for that, but recently I've come across a few modifications of the technique that make it so much more powerful, and to my surprise it was hard to find detailed information about these modifications online. Hence this blogpost....
Exclusive release: the Co-Learning achievement unlocked app
Introducing the Co-Learning achievement unlocked app It can be hard to explicitly appreciate someone for their behaviour. And it can be even harder to accept appreciation. And yet appreciation is something that can have such a big impact on people's motivation. Achievement cards use the gamification element of achievements, getting recognition for a certain behaviour or perseverance. That is why we created physical "Achievement unlocked" cards in the...
Visual goal setting
Whenever we do a kick-off of a new team, we also help them start their journey together by defining their team goal, vision and/or values. This visualisation of the team goal helps the team grow mutual understanding and speed up their team bonding process. Making a visual representation of this goal gives an easy aid to reminding team members of the elements they had all agreed upon. ...