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What Kind of Coach Does Your Team Need?

Coaching is primarily client-driven; the client chooses the right coach for a particular need at a particular time. However, the team may first need to understand what coaching is before deciding what kind of coach they need, and why they need it. This article examines the role that a coach can play in establishing, maintaining and nurturing a safe space for teams to grow and achieve their goals.

Leigh Griffin Arjay Hinek
on Jun 24, 2022
Culture & Methods

How to Run Your Product Department Like a Coach

Having found what I thought was my calling as an agile coach, I took the tough decision to move sideways into Product Management in the hopes of using what I’d learned to one day run my own department. I believed that coming from coaching would allow me to see things others could not and create something special. Time will tell if I have succeeded. This is the story of where I am so far.

Benji Portwin
on May 23, 2022
Culture & Methods

Adaptability by Agreement: Valuing Outcomes over Imposed Solutions

In the pursuit of agile at scale, the landscape is dominated by process-driven approaches which are broken. This article explores a solution-driven rollout approach, one that puts authentic agreement on outcomes before solutions. The principles on which it is based are also effective as leadership strategies, where frameworks are resources to draw upon as people find fitting solutions.

Mike Burrows
on May 20, 2022
Culture & Methods

Connecting Goals to Daily Teamwork

While we all believe that goal setting is important, it’s work that often doesn’t feel quite urgent enough to be included in our daily routine. It is critical to team success for managers to implement a regular cadence that connects daily work more directly to high-level goals, removing administrative roadblocks while helping teammates focus on what matters most.

Dan Pupius
on May 16, 2022
Culture & Methods

The Top Three Priorities for Engineering Leaders in 2022 and beyond

For engineering leaders, the Great Resignation has made it clear that maintaining employee satisfaction should be a top priority in the coming year. In 2022 and beyond, engineering leaders need to invest in developing a strong engineering culture, using data-driven decision-making to lead their teams, and to prioritize people before performance.

Lilac Mohr
on Apr 14, 2022
Culture & Methods

On a Quest to Sustainable Happy Profit: How to Create a Sustainability Framework That Works for You

Being sustainable is not just about the product itself, which is built to endure over time. It’s also about the people, time and energy involved in the process, and the consumption that its existence requires. If any single part of the process cannot be maintained over time, it’s unsustainable. Green Recovery can act as an enabler, and when we focus on what matters we can make a dent.

Ines Garcia
on Apr 07, 2022
Culture & Methods

InfoQ Culture & Methods Trends Report - March 2022

The culture and methods trends report for 2022 shows that organizations, teams, and individuals face challenges on multiple fronts. Tackling hybrid work, the impact of the great resignation, wellness, diversity, and inclusion are topics that leaders need to address head-on to build creative and collaborative cultures

Shane Hastie Sandy Mamoli Douglas Talbot Ben Linders Craig Smith Rafiq Gemmail Shaaron A Alvares
on Mar 31, 2022
Culture & Methods

What Leaders Can Learn from Computer Games

Has the question ever crossed your mind why computer games are often more successful than leaders? Probably not, as this comparison may sound a little strange and provocative at first. However, when you hear the answer, this comparison will make much more sense to you, especially since it reveals a significant success factor for leadership, as well as agility.

Celina Refäuter
on Mar 18, 2022
Culture & Methods

Superior Employee Engagement through Radical Team Autonomy

Radically collaborative organizations have recently doubled in number. Their economic success is due to four cultural imperatives: team autonomy, managerial devolution, deficiency-need gratification, and candid vulnerability. Teams within radically collaborative organizations exhibit six dimensions of autonomy: who, what, when, where, how, and role.

Matt K. Parker
on Mar 04, 2022
Culture & Methods

Embracing Agile Values as a Tech and People Lead

Having worked as a software developer, the agile community has been a great source of inspiration to me to find better ways of working. In my first leadership role, I incorporated the agile mindset which helped me to get everyone working towards a joint goal: refactoring an inherited codebase for scalability, while enabling cross functional teams to work as autonomously as possible.

Milena-Mercedes May
on Feb 10, 2022
Culture & Methods

Hybrid & Remote Work in 2022 and Beyond

Moving into 2022, ways of working and interacting are continuing to evolve as organisations adapt to the ongoing changes brought about by a wide range of factors influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic. Making remote work sustainable, flexible, hybrid and asynchronous working, recognising the importance of employee experience and supporting mental wellness are important trends in the future of work.

Shane Hastie
on Jan 25, 2022
Culture & Methods

Creating Psychological Safety in Your Teams

Psychological safety is a work climate where employees feel free to express their questions, concerns, ideas and mistakes. We cannot have high-performing teams without psychological safety. In this article, you will learn practical ideas, interesting stories, and powerful approaches to boost psychological safety in your team.

Mehmet Baha
on Jan 17, 2022

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