The key attributes of a successful coach
What do all successful coaches have in common? During the recent BeLiminal Advanced Certified ScrumMaster training, I demonstrated what personal coaching could look like by coaching my friend and [...]
Our Journey to Enterprise Agility
Scrum Coaching Retreat Copenhagen 2017 The Scrum Coaching Retreats are a safe place for coaches to get together and share deep learning, develop their understanding and improve the world of agile [...]
Exploring our Values: Equality for all people
“You’re equal but different” – Au Pairs, “It’s Obvious”, 1981 At our last away day, we explored what each of our five values meant to us. You can read about Joy here, so let’s now look at [...]
Systems Thinking series #2 : Personal Mastery
Embracing personal mastery is inevitable As Agile practitioners, if we are serious about the business of improving organisations, teams, leaders and individuals, we must inevitably embrace the [...]
Are we meeting people’s Emotional Needs in the workplace?
How well are organisations meeting the employees emotional needs? In many organisations people are not flourishing; employees are disengaged which often leads to high staff turnover. The basic [...]
The education system must nurture and support creativity
For some years, in the UK, there has been a drive by the government towards very traditional methods of schooling. The focus of the education department returning to learning by rote and of [...]
Speaking at Agile Fest 2017: Systems Thinking – 2017 series kick off
Yesterday, February 21, I delivered a Keynote to the delegates of BarclayCard Agile Fest. This is kicking off a series of experiential sessions I will be hosting at meetups in London this year. [...]
Key Factors for a Successful Agile Adoption
We often hear of organisations adopting Agile, and transforming their world of work. It sounds so exciting. Yet we also hear about such adoptions failing. Failures aren’t bad, as we know, [...]
What’s A Taxi Rank Got To Do With Agile?
A little while back on a trip to Las Vegas I went to see a great show. After the show, I encountered a surprisingly large taxi queue, a good 150-200 people deep. As I joined it I noticed that [...]
Change the way you work with your Agile Coach
This article is based on a talk that I gave as part of the Keynote mash-up at the Scrum Gathering in Munich, 2016. Transforming the world of work is about investing in people, specifically about [...]