Invitation To Dream
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams – Les Brown I had a dream some time ago. I wanted to do what I love, and I wanted to have more free time […]
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams – Les Brown I had a dream some time ago. I wanted to do what I love, and I wanted to have more free time […]
Letting your employees become proud of every change! As a recognized practice, change management has been in existence for almost 50 years (maybe more). However, despite the amount of money invested by organizations in training, tools and books, we continue […]
In the last 4 years I have used LEGO® Serious Play (aka LSP) very often and the result has been extraordinary. However, due to the growing style of working remotely, I started to ask myself if I could use LSP when I am […]
Hello readers, we are in the fifth (and last) activity of this phase and today is the time to prepare a team meeting activity: The Collaborative Approach of Appreciative Inquiry. Is this the first article you read of this series? […]
Hello readers, we are in the fourth activity of this phase, and today is the time to do some 3D models with LEGO® Serious Play® Methodology. Is this the first article you read of this series? Don’t worry; you can check […]
Hello dear readers, we are here now with our third activity for our first phase. It is going faster than I thought. I hope you are enjoying this series of posts. My target is around five activities for each phase. I […]
In one of my posts I shared with you the full framework I use. In this post (and following ones), as I promised, I will share with you activities for each phase. Keep in mind that it works for me; however, it does […]
In the last post I shared with you the full framework. In this post (and following ones), as I promised, I will share with you activities for each phase. The “ground floor” phase: How-To Here is a small refresher of this […]
Hello, after some context in this post series about Performance Appraisal, I will start to share the framework and what I did in later years to avoid the unpleasant effects from traditional performance appraisals. In this post, I will share […]
#Workout, a book by Jurgen Appelo, is ready to read in its print version, and it seems to be beautiful. I write “seems” because I don’t have the print version (yet). However, the way Jurgen wrote this book allowed me […]
Today Jesus Mendez is joining us to share a post about Scrum Mastering in pairs. Enjoy it. First of all, I want to thank you Omar, for honoring me with this invitation to write as a guest in your incredible and […]
As I promised in the first post of the series, today I will give more context for why I really believe that performance appraisals, as we know them today, are not working at all. All that you will read here […]
Children learn to smile from their parents – Shinichi Suzuki Last week I got a call from my mother, and for some reason, a lot of good memories came flooding back to my mind. Unfortunately, due to a decision I […]
If you often read books about performance appraisals, management, and soft skill development, maybe you will not find a lot of new things here. My intention is to write down all that I have experienced about performance appraisals in my […]
Today, I have a TED video from Dan Ariely and some reflections. In my mind, I am aware of a conflict of interest every time I start to do something in my life or my work. The first thing […]
Hello, I would like to share my latest retrospective exercise that I did with 2 teams. Both were amazing. I really liked them, the teams liked the results and the narrative they did. The game is very simple, you […]
Hello everyone, Today, I wanted to share one video I found 4 years ago, and I loved. I use this video in every single team. It represents a lot my day work, and the power of words to me as a leader. […]
Hello, We are in 2015, but I really want to share a few things from 2014. First of all, 2014 was a great year for me in the personal and professional side. My focus for 2015 is repeat those things that […]
Hello everyone, In my first post of this year, I want to share with you some good books I read during 2014. I will try to split them by big “subjects”. Let’s start with my 2014 book selection: Leadership Workout: Games, Tools […]
This is a call for writers to author guest posts that focus on Agile methodologies, motivation, or leadership. I am looking for guest authors that are just as excited and thorough at understanding the intricacies of good human-focused design and want to […]
Hello dear readers, Many people go from great despair and depression to hopelessness; they go hand in hand, it seems. It is possible to find inspirational sayings that help change hopelessness to hope, but we have to be in the […]