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3 Easy Ways You Can Energize Your Team (In 30 Minutes or Less)
Energy is paramount for the success of any team The post 3 Easy Ways You Can Energize Your Team (In 30 Minutes or Less) appeared first on COO Systems.
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This Founder Learned a Major Leadership Lesson After Making Her First Hires
Simple Mills founder and CEO Kaitlin Smith learned a key lesson while building her team: people like to make their own mistakes. Here’s how Smith learned to become a leader of people, not just a...
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The importance of radical candor for delivery teams
Kim Scott’s bestseller is normally read as a guide for managers but it provides equal value to the members of self-organized teams. While she details a number of useful models within the book, her main...
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Progress is the secret sauce of motivation…
I’ve written about many drivers of individual motivation. Receiving regular recognition (Early Saturday morning alliteration!), effective empowerment giving us autonomy over our work, having...
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Understanding the mismatched is another benefit of long-lived, stable teams
In his latest book, Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell writes about the problems which can result when we expect that there is alignment between how people act and how they really feel internally....
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I may be a “Crazy Fool” but I consider the A-Team to be agile!
When teaching agile classes, I’m occasionally asked if I could provide an example of an agile team from cinema or television. While the first Avengers movie does a good job of illustrating Bruce...
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Do your performance evaluation and recognition systems support...
While it is usually Wally who openly expresses those thoughts which we normally keep to ourselves, Dilbert is letting his inner voice do the talking in today’s strip. Let’s imagine for a moment that...
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Cultural transformations of high-performing teams
While I was delivering a course on agile fundamentals this week, one of the learners in the class asked me how the mindset and behaviors normally associated with agile teams might impact or be impacted...
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What would I want to receive from my team members this holiday season?
With under a week till Christmas 2019, Mike Cohn wrote a good article about what wishes team members might want to have granted this holiday season from their Agile Leads, Product Owners and People...
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Purpose begins with project names
The WHO recently renamed the virus which had initially been referred to as Novel Coronavirus to COVID-19. While this new name is easier to pronounce and is more specific (Coronavirus being a family of...
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Be the eye of the storm for your team members
I’ve written a few articles over the past weeks which have touched on the current COVID-19 global outbreak. Things are likely to get worse before they start getting better, so I felt this week’s...
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How will I get a job as a remote project manager if I’ve never been one before?
While checking my LinkedIn feed this morning, I saw an update indicating that there are over 2,000 job postings for remote project managers on just one North American employment site. While this is...
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Building virtual teams starts with effective kick-off meetings
Remote teaming is not a new concept but physical distancing restrictions have forced many project managers who had never previously worked with teams of dispersed team members to quickly adapt. While...
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Use the 7 Habits to create highly effective agile teams
When Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s wrote his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®, it was used by individuals for self-improvement but the same habits could also help teams in their journeys to...
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Create a culture of appreciation within your virtual team
Sabina Nawaz’s article “In Times of Crisis, a Little Thanks Goes a Long Way“, which was published this week on HBR.org, is a great reminder of the need we all have to be appreciated. In a blog post...
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Three more team building lessons from gardening
A few years back, I wrote an article in which I provided some gardening tips to developing good teams. I’m spending more time tending my garden these days so I decided to share a few more lessons for...
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“Organize Around Products/Services” is a great addition to the Disciplined...
The Disciplined Agile (DA) principles were recently refactored and as part of this refactoring, a principle was added: “Organize Around Products/Services”. While it is just one of the eight principles,...
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Low psychological safety might be why planning assumptions remain unstated
Scott Adams does a good job above of illustrating one of the many perils of low levels of psychological safety within a team. Dilbert is trying to raise reasonable doubts with his leader, the...
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Don’t neglect your “back to the office” plan!
It would be an understatement to say that project managers have had to deal with a lot of change this year. Projects have had their budgets vastly reduced or been cancelled outright, and remote work...
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How do you build your brand as a project manager?
The restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in more project managers working remotely. While this keeps everyone safe, it also means that there is a larger supply of project...
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What’s the link between emotional intelligence and psychological safety?
Following a presentation I gave this week on how project managers can cultivate psychological safety within their teams, an attendee asked me to what the relationship is between psychological safety...
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How does psychological safety relate to holding space?
I’m always happy to learn something new when it relates to the topics which interest me and even more so when it is something which I should have run across long ago. During an event this week, a...
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Don’t blame corporate culture for not cultivating psychological safety within...
While speaking on the topic of psychological safety yesterday I was asked whether it is possible to create safety within a team if the prevailing culture of the department or overall organization is...
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Is a lack of psychological safety preventing you from delegating?
Harvard Business Review published an article by Sabina Nawaz this week on some challenges managers face when they delegate work to their staff. The gaps identified with team members being able to...
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How are you planning for psychological safety within your team?
I’ve delivered a number of presentations this year on the importance of building psychological safety within project teams and the role which project managers play. During these presentations I’m...
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How do you hold safe meetings when some team members are invisible?
After I had finished presenting on how to build psychologically safe virtual teams at a conference earlier this week, one of the delegates asked me what suggestions I’d have to help her with a team...
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Building psychological safety within your team means living it yourself!
In a previous article I presented a three step model for building psychological safety within your team. The second step is that you as a project manager, team lead or functional manager need to live...
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Will you be a champion for team psychological safety?
The final stage in the three-step model for building psychological safety within your team is to champion it. A champion is not afraid of taking on all challengers and you might face plenty of those....
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Do your team members feel unsafe to lead?
An article published this week on HBR.org indirectly identified another casualty of low psychological safety: future leadership. In the article, the authors highlighted three key reasons why capable...
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Psychological safety is not about being nice
Daniel Goleman wrote this week in an HBR article with regards to emotional intelligence: “…one of the most persistent things I see people get wrong about the concept is that it equates to being “nice.”...
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An offer to help might make it easier to swallow a bitter feedback pill!
A recent Harvard Business Review article warned of the challenges with using the “feedback sandwich” method. The authors wrote that such feedback might irritate the recipient, cause them to ignore the...
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Inclusiveness of diversity forms a virtuous cycle with psychological safety
In 2014 I wrote an article about the benefits which diversity in team composition can bring to risk identification. With different backgrounds and experiences, team members will usually identify a...
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