Accountability? No sense Hi guys, in this post I want to get your help to understand why 99% of our management does not have any clue how companies or people work. Some time ago I worked for a company that went through a big reorganization. At that time I was an agile coach and my […]
Monetary Rewards destroy relationships between people
In today’s world modern companies try to create environments where cooperation is a must between employees and departments. Alfie Kohn, in his book Punished by Rewards, goes further and states: “Cooperation does not just make tasks more pleasant; in many cases, it is virtually a prerequisite for quality”. Companies start to realize that having well-functioning […]
Is your team self organized?
During last week, I had the opportunity to attend one of our CoPs (community of practises) meetings at my company. This CoPs was dedicated to Scrum Masters and since we have many new scrum masters, the focus of the meeting was on a following topic: “What means to be a good Scrum Master, its roles […]
Get Rid of Performance Appraisals - Categorization and Stereotype Problem
Hi guys, this blog post is part of a four posts series that talk about the problem of Performance Appraisals as a Rating Device. All series can be found here. This time I will discuss how Categorization and Stereotype can affect Performance Appraisals. Based on wikipedia definition, Categorization is the process in which ideas and […]
Get Rid of Performance Appraisals - Gender, Race and Age Bias Problem
Hi guys, this blog post is part of a four blog post series that talk about the problem of Performance Appraisals as a Rating Device. All the series can be found here. In this blog post, I will discuss how Gender, Race and Age Bias can affect Performance Appraisals. There are several studies about appraisals […]
Why is so difficult for workers to find purpose on their daily job?
Every day we hear how important is to have purpose in our jobs and in our life. Daniel Pink refers in his book “Drive” that in order for us to be truly motivated with our work we need to have a feeling of purpose, mastery and autonomy. Therefore, this post will focus on the purpose […]
Create a Knowledge Transfer Culture or you will die!!!
Hi guys, during last two weeks I had an opportunity to catch up with a friend who works as Agile Coach. During last summer, his company had serious issues with knowledge transfer that almost forced them to close doors. In this blog, I will explain why is it so important to have a culture that […]
Sharing knowledge within your organization
Hi guys, for some time I have been thinking about writing a series of blogs about knowledge shared within an organisation. As an Agile Coach, one of my roles is to help companies define a strategy to support a knowledge sharing. In this blog post, I put together several different posts about knowledge sharing techniques. […]
Study Groups - Communities of Practice
Hi guys, in this post I just want to present a really simple idea how you can share knowledge within your team/organization. This activity is called “Book and Coffee Break Study Group”. How many of us read books on our free time and want to share the content of the books with other people but this actually never happened?
Conditions for Effective Feedback
Hi guys, today´s post will be about feedback. As you know, I work as an Agile Coach and therefore I need to give feedback to my teams on a daily basis. The question that I pose to you is: “Do we know what are the conditions for effective feedback?”. I do not think so, I […]