If you have read my piece on the Four Horizons of Team Performance (FHoTP) model, you may wonder how it relates to other team models that you may be familiar with, e.g. IMGD and Agile Fluency. What…| The Blogging Terrier | Den bloggande terriern
Knowing now that teams can be healthy, productive, impactful, and altruistic, or none of these things, how many teams are?| The Blogging Terrier | Den bloggande terriern
How would you describe a great team without resorting to words like “high-performing” or “successful”? I am certain that you would come up with a few descriptive words, like…| The Blogging Terrier | Den bloggande terriern
I have now shared seven articles with seven proven ways to have better meetings. Or, in the parlance of our time, meetings that don’t suck. Here are the seven rules that help you have meetings that don't suck.| The Blogging Terrier | Den bloggande terriern
As humans, it is incredibly difficult to contribute in full in a meeting when you feel fear. Any indication of not being safe reduces us to bleak shadows of our full potential. Fear is the mind-kil…| The Blogging Terrier | Den bloggande terriern
Most meetings benefit from having a facilitator. If nobody puts effort into getting the fundamental prerequisites of a productive meeting in place and supports the group in that process, there is a distinct possibility that your meeting will suck.| The Blogging Terrier | Den bloggande terriern
Take ownership of your meetings. Study them and experiment with them to improve. Create more value for you and your team by either 1. Raising your ambitions, or 2. Simplifying your methods. If you let them slide, they will gradually start to suck.| The Blogging Terrier | Den bloggande terriern
I feel that we should all take ownership of our time at work. It is our responsibility. To do this, don’t conflate busyness with creating value. There are many ways to contribute without participating in every meeting.| The Blogging Terrier | Den bloggande terriern
If there is no purpose and no plan for the meeting, if there are no thought through proposals, if people have not read the material, if we are looking at old information, or people in general just …| The Blogging Terrier | Den bloggande terriern
I believe that the most sensible way of developing a typical organisation is to start by changing how they work with change| The Blogging Terrier | Den bloggande terriern
K2K Emocionado is a basque consulting firm that helps organisations become self-managed. Can you imagine a more difficult job in an organisation? I can’t. Yet, their track record is amazing. …| The Blogging Terrier | Den bloggande terriern
Successful organisations build change into the organisation itself, into its structures and processes and into the mind of every individual. They have shifted their mindset from change being a thre…| The Blogging Terrier | Den bloggande terriern
Have you ever been to a meeting which seemed to go nowhere? Afterwards, you wondered why you met at all. It seemed like a total waste of time. There wasn’t even an agenda… These meetings seem to be quite common, judging by the many expressions of confusion or even frustration on the internet. I often […]| The Blogging Terrier | Den bloggande terriern
One good way of having meetings that don’t suck is to avoid creating or participating in meetings that have the wrong purpose to start with.| The Blogging Terrier | Den bloggande terriern
Diffusion of knowledge is a difficult problem. People who need to know something are often unaware that they do. And even when they do, they may have no idea that this knowledge already exist in an…| The Blogging Terrier | Den bloggande terriern
Simply copying what someone else is doing may be functional in child development but is a poor way to improve organisations. The problem is that practices don’t translate well between context…| The Blogging Terrier | Den bloggande terriern
Managers are part of the organisation too. If the organisation changes, they need to change.| The Blogging Terrier | Den bloggande terriern
Is learning by doing really enough?| The Blogging Terrier | Den bloggande terriern
If you want sustainable, human-centric change, you need to allow for people to “pull” the changes into their world by choice.| The Blogging Terrier | Den bloggande terriern
When working with any form of change we need to Think Big and Start Small.| The Blogging Terrier | Den bloggande terriern
The Pledge of the Sheriff In the movie The Pledge (2001), directed by Sean Penn, a weary police chief, played by Jack Nicholson, investigates the murder of a young child. In the pivotal scene, on t…| The Blogging Terrier | Den bloggande terriern
