Participants of my facilitation trainings often ask how to make people enjoy the meeting, so that the meeting would be … More
Category: Coaching
Manifesto for Flexible Agile Transformation
I gave a lightning talk called Manifesto for Flexible Agile Transformation in Scan-Agile 2019 conference. The manifesto consists of four … More
Likelihood to Accept to Do Something You Don’t Really Want to Do Increases as Time Left Before the Event Increases
It’s much more likely that you promise to do something, e.g. to go to an event or a meeting, to … More
To Get Stuff Done, Split It To Five Second Tasks
Difficult part of getting anything done is starting. At least for me. Once I get going with something, I’m usually … More
Six Ways to Influence People
I just read a great Cliff’s notes version of book Influence by Robert Cialdini. Here is a rundown on six principles … More
Where is Your Focus: Vision, Process or Details?
Thanks to some high quality co-thinking with some of my coachees and colleagues, I’ve had couple of insights around David … More
New Driver for Intrinsic Motivation
Dan Pink defined three drivers for intrinsic motivation in people: Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose. Meaning that these are the actual … More
How did I end up doing coaching?
I’m starting my summer vacation after this week. When I was walking to office, I started to think about how … More
What is the Agile Coach for?
Why do we need to have an agile coach in a project? What is she/he there for? This is a … More
Leading by Listening
On our Leading Agile Teams course, we teach leaders how to actively listen. This sometimes raises questions – how am … More
