Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the dynamic world of business, leadership feedback stands as a cornerstone for team excellence and organizational growth. Constructive critiques and affirmative recognition pave the way for heightened team morale and a company culture of continuous improvement. What is Leadership Feedback?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Furthermore, successful CPOs are exceptional leaders who inspire and motivate their teams to achieve excellence. They understand the importance of developing their team’s skills and capabilities, nurturing a culture of continuous learning and professional development.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

Most of us can say we have worked with a bad boss before. Leadership training can help managers to develop their communication skills, which can enhance collaboration, build stronger relationships and reduce misunderstandings.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

At the end of a Daily Scrum: the Sprint Backlog should be updated the whole team should understand their current state of progress towards the Sprint Goal the whole team should understand what impediments (or slowdowns) exist Is Daily Scrum the same as Daily Standup or Daily Huddle? But I differ with the Scrum Guide on this.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

If your Sprints are merely about ticking off items on a scattered work list without having a shared understanding of why they’re important or what purpose they serve, your Development Team will struggle to keep focus in the short-term and will take longer to become highly effective in the long run. Why Do We Have Sprint Goals?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

And most importantly, what if that sentence had to include a “But”… “She’s a really great person and I love having her on my team, BUT I can’t count on her to meet her commitments.” ” For example, we want to be known for practical, sustainable leadership development for human-centered leaders.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

To manage these challenges, executives are called on to adopt a long-term perspective on organizational strategy while staying in tune with the present-day needs of clients, customers and team members. Executive leadership programs are typically structured as a series of workshops, seminars, and experiential sessions led by industry experts.

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Strategic Tech

MARCH 16, 2021

For many people, this is a waste of time; it’s pretentious developers geeking out over unnecessary perfectionism. The same mindset should also be applied to architecture; involve the whole team and challenge the small details. Teams should have access to tools like Miro and be using them extensively.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

What is a Leadership Development Program? Leadership development refers to specific programs utilized by organizations, in order to train or coach an employee(s) about effective leadership requirements. Why is leadership development important? Two Approaches to Learning about Leadership Development.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Following up on the success of his previous book, The No Asshole Rule , Bob is back with Good Boss, Bad Boss. What are your thoughts on what makes a good boss or a bad boss? It’s a great read with more tips, stories and advice than can be shared in the length of one video or blog post.  I share that in this week’s video.

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Accenture

MARCH 24, 2020

Employers are able to attract talent from all over the world, and employees enjoy both the diversity of multinational teams and the flexibility that comes with working remotely. Over the last year, I’ve been privileged to work with Accenture Learning as their Agile Coach. How can you “read the room”? Iterate and learn.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

It’s pretty clear that the boss doesn’t want or see any reason to change and certainly isn’t open to coaching. Here’s one way to do it that can help: Tim Gallwey, the former tennis coach who’s now an executive coach, is the author of a series of books on the inner game. Some people are just not open to coaching.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2021

Engineers have long had a poor relationship with managers. Management appears to be well integrated in Agile teams, not an overhead, nuisance, or encumbrance as it is in traditional project management. A good place to start is by looking at the fundamentals of Agile team dynamics. This all seems different in Agile.

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Coveros

APRIL 29, 2021

As an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, and instructor, I meet and interact with many people who have used Value Stream Mapping to successfully transform product and service delivery by focusing on value delivery to their customers and eliminating waste in delivering that value. Wikipedia – [link]. Creating a Value Stream Map.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Tell them that the role of ScrumMaster is as a servant-leader, coach, and facilitator, navigating the dynamics of the team to ensure Scrum practices are followed and value is delivered effectively. Servant Leadership: prioritizing the needs of the team and helping others to perform as highly as possible.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus. In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality. The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice.

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CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

Finally, it has forced me to think about and clearly articulate answers to the excellent questions that Maddy had developed. To explain this concept, Sinek has developed what he calls the “Golden Circle,”. 1) When developing, maintaining and growing my business, I have focused heavily on the ‘why’. What does that even mean?

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Scale: Team and/or across multiple teams. This is a critical consideration because, at the heart of Scrum, we’re attempting to grow a group of people into a resilient, high-performing team. Executives might make suggestions or give orders directly to Team members. Tells Team members how to do their job.

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In Scrum, Product Backlog Refinement is an essential meeting of the Product Owner and the Development Team to gain clarity and a shared understanding of what needs to be done through discussion and sharing of ideas. Paula – the Product Owner of Steve’s team. Paula and the Team review the current state of the Product Backlog.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Manager dens- where you can experience coaching, mentoring, and a safe space, Vegas rules session. @23:57. Mentoring is sharing advice and perspective; coaching is helping someone come to their own conclusions. @25:56. Coaching is what helps people grow. @26:26. What are you optimizing for? @30:24. Transcript. Lara: Oh, okay.

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Daniel Bryant

JUNE 9, 2023

In previous roles, I have mainly been engaging and working directly with developers, and so it was very interesting to learn that a lot of our tactics overlap with the Field CTO and solution engineer approach. Daniel Bryant on Twitter: "Great overview of the Divvy GTM story with @sterlingmsnow at #SaaStr, from $0 to $2.5B

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

For those of you not familiar with Kevin, he is a two-time best selling author and the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group , a learning consulting company that has been helping organizations, teams and individuals reach their potential since 1993. It is the walk that people are watching. How does your walk prove it?

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Agile Pain Relief Notes from a Tool User

JUNE 12, 2019

In software development work, a design pattern is a description of a solution to a recurring problem. Whenever a team creates an exception, such as a special Sprint to solve a challenge, it creates an Anti-Pattern, which often results in additional problems. Scale: Team and across multiple teams.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 13, 2010

Michael is the author of the bestseller, Do More Great Work , and is the guy to talk to if you want to figure out how to shift your time and attention from the good work to the great work and drop the bad work entirely. Michael’s a great coach and a terrific story teller. How to find and act on your definition of great work.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

In twenty plus years of management work and leadership coaching, I’ve been in the room for a few really great offsites and a lot of really awful ones.   I’m actually working with a couple of client organizations on the agendas for offsites that will happen this week and next.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 24, 2011

If you’ve got someone on your team who is clearly a star but regularly disrupts the chi and makes life difficult for others on the team, you’ve got a tough problem as a manager. Re-reading that this morning, I’m guessing that some of those reasons came into play with Olbermann’s departure from MSNBC.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

  One of the reasons that boss's sometimes make bad requests is that they're moving at 350 miles per hour and haven't stopped to consider the impact of what they're asking for. Explain how one or more of those alternatives will accomplish the goal as well as if not better than the request. Keep it short. 

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

In a truly innovative move, the new management team rewrote the employee handbook giving the green light to profanity and dirty jokes “because a loose, fun, nonlinear atmosphere is important to the creative process. A coaching friend of mine likes to say that presence begets presence. This dynamic can play out for good or for bad.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 21, 2010

There were good cops and bad cops to keep you on your toes.   My Wall Street days came to mind recently when I was listening to an executive speak to a group of high potential leaders I’m coaching.  You can learn as much from the bad experiences and bad bosses as you can from the good ones.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 2, 2010

The result of the poor leadership and management includes mismarked graves, unmarked graves, split graves and at least four burial urns that somehow ended up in a landfill. Since I was out of town, I had missed the investigative piece in the Washington Post last week that detailed decades of mismanagement at Arlington.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

You are not a star QB; you are an offensive lineman whose job it is to protect your stars (the team) and create huge "holes" they can run through. Of course, bookmarking the Next Level blog isn't bad advice either. :). Deflect credit, hog blame. Be the boss you always wish you had. Simple and clear!

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The TechCrunch team got so competitive in this season of the Great Tech Bake-off, cooking up an incredible amount of scrumptious news over the past 24 hours, that it has taken us damn near 24 hours just to ingest the full tasting menu. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack.

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CIO

OCTOBER 7, 2022

IT organizations are shifting to product-based methodologies , in which cross-functional teams made up of both tech and business pros focus on a single product or service offering. Much of a product manager’s job involves ensuring the various functions of a cross-functional team work well together. Great communication skills.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 29, 2010

  When someone brings you bad news, let them know through your spoken language, your body language, your tone of voice that you can't handle the truth. Poor at that.    Kill the messenger.     Thank the messenger and then ignore them. What's your favorite?

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Take A Look Leadership Lessons Podcast Leadership Lessons Podcasts : Scott Eblin, executive coach, speaker and author of The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success, 2nd Edition , talks with top business and organizational leaders.   Times have changed though. . 

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Steve Farber

AUGUST 23, 2016

that I used to get after teaching the canned, scripted workshops that were the staples of my earlier days in the leadership development business. Have things really gotten that bad? He may be calling you for a coaching engagement. Software’s in the same category, especially on an enterprise level. He’s a nice man.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

That post, which mainly focused on team owner Dan Snyder, went a little viral.    And, of course, he hired a Super Bowl winning coach in Mike Shanahan to lead the team from the sidelines and a five time Pro Bowler in Donovan McNabb to lead the team on the field.   He’s the face of the team. 

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