“COVID-19 has caused an economic shock three times worse than the 2008 financial crisis” Uncertainty, fear, not-knowing – these are the feelings anyone has experienced this year. The shock is not only economic. Becoming a Lonely Guy locked out of their Normal, turned many into deep reflection mode about how the things are – and probably could be, when we …
What Makes Us Move? ScrumDay Danmark 2019 Thoughts
Engagement as the key to agile: sounds simple and obvious?.. However, in reality there is a lot to reflect about – before taking it for granted that it will work by itself when we shift to agile. According to Gallup poll there is a clear cut proof this is not a piece of cake. Only 15% of the employees worldwide, …
Building Dialogues on Diversity: Design Your Success Story with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®
Learning to build shared understanding not documents is crucial for diverse teams. Great teams can and do learn to collaborate beyond cultural differences and backgrounds, leaving behind bias and assumptions. Exponential development with higher levels of complexity results in diversity explosion – global companies, cross cultural contexts, multinational teams. Well-defined borders between habitual cultural territories are washed by the ocean …
WORLD RETROSPECTIVE DAY THOUGHTS
Is a retrospective another meeting associated with boring duty, fatigue, no-reason-and-no benefit, low-quality time? If considered a waste of time, people do not show up and find any possible reason to hide away. To many a retrospective also seems a risky, out-of-comfort zone “sorting out” of mistakes, associated with unpleasant meeting on the carpet with the boss. Revealing embarrassing mistakes …