Tag: management

18 December 2019 / Agile & Scrum

20 New Year’s Resolutions for Managers in a Scrum Environment

The end of the year is nearby, time for some New Year’s resolutions! It has become a tradition for us to provide some help to busy people coming up with some good (enough) new year’s resolutions. This year we want to support Managers out there struggling to survive within a Scrum oriented organization. Here are 20 new year’s resolutions to get you started as a...

17 March 2016 / Agile & Scrum

12 enemies of adaptability and what to do about it

Hierarchy Top-down, control based hierarchies discourage individual initiative, lead to slower reaction times, and divert energy to “managing up” or what is called politics. These politics will optimize your organization to CYA (Cover Your Ass), loss of productivity, and an aversion of risk, resulting in a standstill culture. Fear Command-and-control systems lead to organizations filled with anxious employees who are hesitant to take the initiative or...

2 September 2013 / Engaging Workshops & Meetings

What Are Effective Job Interview Techniques?

In this article I want to go a bit deeper into the subject of taking job interviews in order to find the right person for the job. How it is done in some companies today. How others make it their business and how you could avoid loosing time and money within the process by doing it differently. Why? Because I think in traditional ways... Job...

15 March 2013 / Engaging Workshops & Meetings

Internal Marketing is a Key Leadership Practice

The hardest part of an organization, and therefore its management, is sharing the enthusiasm with the entire organization, especially when most of the people in there are making one-tenth to one-fiftieth of what top managers make. Selling the company to their customers, or within their market segment, is a piece of cake compared to selling it to the actual people who work for it. And...

6 February 2013 / Engaging Workshops & Meetings

Plörk – Gamification and Group Coaching Combined

Guestblog by Pierre Neis Plork (play and work) is a workshop facilitation format combining the forces of group coaching and the dynamics of games (gamification). Some consider Plork as solution focused coaching in a minimal timeframe. The main reason for Plork is to install a dynamic of permanent change within the company by the dynamics of the team which composes. Learn through experience! "Make business more fun than...

30 January 2013 / Leadership & Management

How to Grow Beyond Blame and Justification

In the last couple of years a lot of people started to ask me how to get others to change and take responsibility. Most of the time these questions come from people wanting others to do things for them. Sounds familiar? Well that is exactly how it should not be done! As a member of the Leadership Gift program, and long time follower of Christopher...