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We’ve all been in meetings or other sessions which have sucked all our energy, haven’t we? I know I have. Sessions where people have been on their laptops or checking email on their phones and not paying attention to the proceedings. What about when 1 or 2 people dominate?
Continue reading “It’s not the meeting’s fault that it sucked!”I’ve just finished a call with a client who commissioned me to facilitate a strategy session for their leadership team. In walking her through my design I realised again the importance of creating a generative container for people to do their best work. As such, the facilitator takes care of the structure, while the group takes care of the content.
This article highlights three design elements that help me each time when I design and later hold the structure of a facilitated work session. A work session can be anything from a status meeting, Manco, retrospective, planning event, team building…I’m sure that you can fill in the rest.
Continue reading “How to Design a Facilitated Work Session”After a 3 year journey, I was invited to a Scrum Alliance® TAC (Trainer Approval Community) in Vienna 2 weeks ago! The last 10 months have been intense, readying myself for this invitation. I didn’t know if I was going to get a TAC spot this year, but I prepared as though I was. No matter what happened, I knew that it was going to be a learning experience. An opportunity!
The Sprint Retrospective provides one of the best opportunities for Scrum teams to discover improvements. Retrospectives aren’t the only opportunities. And Scrum Teams aren’t the only organisation members that need to discover opportunities for improvement.
This post will describe a facilitation tool that I’ve used to help teams and other stakeholders discover such opportunities. For each, I will also describe a situation in which I used it effectively. The name of the organisation will be anonymised.
Continue reading “Sprint Retrospective Using The World Cafe Method”
Let me answer this question by describing an actual situation.
Continue reading “To Scrum Or Not To Scrum?”