Thought Leadership

Last month I wrote about team norms, or working agreements as I prefer to call them, and how they relate to the work of Dr Richard Hackman.  Team norms fall into Hackman’s enabling structures [...]

When did you last hear somebody in your workplace talking about wellbeing? Probably earlier today or in the last few days. People are increasingly more willing to talk about their wellbeing, [...]

After a challenging year for businesses, BeLiminial Partner Mark Summers examines what lies ahead in the first of our Future of Work series

What is team coaching and how does it relate to the Scrum Master role? Using university research we look at the synergy between them, read more

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

  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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]