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Creative Scrum: Tunnel of Chaos

Navigating the real complexity of change

Learn to successfully navigate the complexity that comes when you make a significant change or build something new.

A Recipe for Hosting Effective Meetings

A guide to leading the type of meeting you want to attend

With the right recipe to follow, you can create effective meetings that are productive, meaningful, and efficient.

Creative Scrum: Selling the Idea

Leadership alignment itself is a journey

Learn some practical steps to create alignment for your creative scrum process.

Creative Scrum: Defining the Outcomes

Getting clear about where you’re trying to go.

Learn the power of clear outcomes or objectives when implementing creative scrum.

Creative Scrum: Doing Research

Finding the problem that needs solving.

Learn to leverage research to design your creative scrum process and workflow.

The Power of Self-Organizing Teams to Unlock Your Team’s True Potential

Build teams with agency and accountability.

Explore how self-organizing teams can unlock your team’s true potential.

Harnessing Your Inner Enneagram 6 Leader

Leading with loyalty

Explore what it looks like to lead with an enneagram 6 mindset

Unleashing the Power of Enneagram 1 Leadership

leading as a reformer

Enneagram 1 leaders are known for their strong sense of responsibility, purpose, and perfectionism.

A Tale of Two Roles: Product Owner vs. Scrum Master

The Difference Between a Scrum Master and a Product Owner

Understanding the roles of scrum master and product owner will help your business reach its goals faster and more efficiently

Creative Scrum: Backstory

Every good story doesn’t begin where you think it does.

There are backstories to Scrum, me and the organization I was working with. Understanding these was critical to navigating the unknowns of implementations and adaptation.

How Card Sorting Can Help You Take Your Leadership Skills to the Next Level

Gain insight into how people organize information

Card sorting is an invaluable tool for leaders who want to get an inside look at how their teams think about different topics.

How to use Affinity Diagrams to discover insights

a simple tool to see the meaning in the data

Learn how affinity diagrams can help your team apply data to your decision-making and come up with better solutions

Rhythm is Critical for the Longterm Health of a Leader

A cadence of life to guide you.

Embrace the rhythm you were designed for and allow it to orient your leadership journey.

How to Use Negative Space in Your Design as a Leader

How calm, quiet and stillness can form a leader.

As a leader, we often feel like our work is never done; there is always more. We usually don’t need more. We need less.

You Need Contrast to Grow as a Leader

I diverse community is a key ingredient to growth.

Contrast cultivates empathy in us as leaders. Everyone has a role to play. If you’re only around people like yourself, you won’t grow.

You Should Consider Proximity Essential to Your Leader Design

The power of you leadership community

Who you spend time with will shape you as a leader. Your leadership community can be your leadership super power.

Why Alignment is so Important to Leader Design

Living and leading aligned to your priorities

Aligning with your priorities and how you’ve been designed will be your highest ROI as a growing leader.

Unlocking Your Leadership Potential With the Enneagram

Use the Enneagram to develop your team.

The enneagram provides a powerful tool for unlocking leadership potential both in yourself and in your team members.

Applying StrengthsFinder in Servant Leadership

Leverage your strengths and grow as a servant leader.

A guide to growing as a servant leader by leveraging your leadership strengths.

Why I started coaching

Leading always involves coaching.

Learn how investing in leadership coaching is essential to ensure leaders have the tools they need.

Learn How to Create Clarity Around Your Goals

Six questions to bring clarity to your goals.

Learn a simple, repeatable process for creating clarity in your organization or personal life.

An Introduction to OKRs: Objectives and Key Results

Ideas are easy. Execution is everything.

Learn to use OKRs, Objectives and Key Results, to level up your personal or organizational effectiveness and productivity.

Discover How the Vision Frame Helps You Set Goals

See both where you're going and how to get there.

Learn to use the vision frame to clarify your future destination and build a framework for how to get there.

Learn How To Achieve Your Goals Using The 4 Disciplines Of Execution (4dx)

Move from just planning to executing.

Learn how to apply 4DX, the four disciplines of execution, in your team or organization and begin delivering results at a high level.

How You Can Use the Strategic Planning Process

From critical mass to future vision.

The strategic planning process provides you with a toolset for evaluating where you want to be and how to get there.

Setting Goals the Right Way

Achieving success requires having a clear goal in mind

SMART goals show you how to set goals the right way so that you can reach them efficiently and effectively.

How To-Do Lists Can Help You Set Goals

Identify and prioritize what's important.

To-do lists help us organize information, and they let us see the whole in a structured way by writing out all the things to do. But did you know that your lists can also help you set goals?

Leading with the Individualization StrengthsFinder Talent

From feeling common to unique

Learn to develop your individualization talent into a strength, you can help others see everyone doesn’t just fit into a box

Leading with the Maximizer StrengthsFinder Talent

From potential to amazing

Develop your maximizer strength, and help people, teams, and ideas level up to their full potential.

Leading with the Woo StrengthsFinder Talent

From stranger to friends

Learning to develop your woo strength in your leadership and build strong, connected teams.

Leading with the Relator StrengthsFinder Talent

From new friend to deep friendship

Learn to leverage your relator strength and trade shallow, transactional relationships for deep and meaningful ones.

Leading with the Intellection StrengthsFinder Talent

From unknown to considered

Grow your intellection strength to find opportunities to think deeply and solve big problems.

Leading with the Discipline StrengthsFinder Talent

From messy to under control

Learn to leverage this discipline in your leadership, and stop feeling like you're making it up as you go or building the plane while flying it.

Leading with the Includer StrengthsFinder Talent

From exclusive to inclusive

Learn to leverage your includer strength to minimize exclusivity on your teams and ensure everyone has a place at the table.

Leading with the Self-Assurance StrengthsFinder Talent

From uncertain to confident

Learn to develop your self-assurance strength and lead, confident they can help their team stay the course and weather the storm.

Leading with the Context StrengthsFinder Talent

From aware to informed

Lead with your strengthsfinder context talent, drawing from your deep and nuanced understanding of the past and keep teams from repeating the same mistakes.

Leading with the Consistency StrengthsFinder Talent

From unfair to fair

Learn to lead through your consistency strength and ensure everyone gets fair opportunities and is held to the same standards.

Leading with the Connectedness StrengthsFinder Talent

From random to purposeful

Learn to develop your connectedness strength, so you and your team feel like they're part of a bigger story.

Leading with the Communication StrengthsFinder Talent

From unspoken to remembered

Learn to use your strengthsfinder communication talent to orchestrate a dramatic symphony of words

Leading with the Command StrengthsFinder Talent

From standing still to moving forward

Learn to lean on your command strength to take charge, own the situation and make the necessary decisions.

Leading with the Harmony StrengthsFinder Talent

From divided to unified

Learn to lead with harmony StrengthsFinder talent and inspire individuals on your team or organization to find common ground and work together.

Leading with the Restorative StrengthsFinder Talent

From broken to fixed

Learning to lead with your restorative strength enables you to empower others to create solutions. No more leaving unsolved problems lying around.

Value Moments

An exercise in creating team values

Learn to create team values by describing a moment those values are lived out. A guide complete with exercises and examples.

Leading with the Competition StrengthsFinder Talent

From participation to winning

Learn to leverage your strenghsfinder competition talent so both you and your team can level up and deliver your best.

Leading with the Belief StrengthsFinder Talent

From misalignment to alignment.

Learn to use your StrengthsFinder Belief talent to stay focused on your core values and principles, resulting in both staying power and impact.

Leading with the Strategic StrengthsFinder Talent

From clutter to clarity

Becoming a strategic leader brings you and your team an extraordinary advantage. You can parse through the cloud of inputs, sorting out the relevant details and crafting a solution.

Leading with the Responsibility StrengthsFinder Talent

From committed to completed

Learn to make a huge impact with your Responsibility StrengthsFinder talent by navigating the tension between healthy boundaries and owning their commitments.

Leading with the Deliberative StrengthsFinder Talent

From unpredictable to decided

Learn to apply your deliberative strengthsfinder talent to be a very intentional decision-maker, taking a careful, detailed and considered approach.

Note-and-Vote

A strategy for effective team collaboration.

Want an alternative to your typical brainstorm? Note-and-Vote adds just enough structure to the conversation to allow ideas to effectively be formed, shared, evaluated and chosen.

Leading with the Input StrengthsFinder Talent

From unknown to insight

Learn to leverage your input strength and bring a more profound, nuanced understanding to your team

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