This track centers on nurturing and empowering people. It delves into strategies for building vibrant cultures, empowering teams, and honing leadership skills.
Attendees will explore techniques for fostering collaborative environments, elevating team dynamics, and discovering innovative approaches to lead and inspire.
You know it’s true. Money is not enough to retain employees. The workforce has evolved, and you need to evolve with it if you want to lead successful teams and organizations. As human beings, we all want and need to experience Belonging, Appreciation, and Meaning at work. Today, employees demand Read more…
This talk is aimed at agilistas and other change agents who may be frustrated at the pace of change, but still can’t help themselves: they MUST change our organizations. I want to offer a new meme for organizational change: setting up islands of coherence inside complex adaptive systems that are Read more…
This is a personal talk focused on agile-eager, passionate agile change agents: the coaches and ScrumMasters of our world. In this talk I delve deeply into the implications of agile losing its connection to business purpose and becoming an idealistic practice-centered thing… leading broad swaths of potential beneficiaries to check Read more…
What happens – what *really* happens – when we find out a detailed transformation plan is at odds with our day-to-day reality? What if our original assumptions turn out to be wrong? Disappointment. Withdrawal. Frustration. Resistance. Fatigue. Lack of trust in leadership. We can do better, if we think like Read more…
Tired of uninspired retrospectives that don’t lead to real improvements? It’s time to learn a fresh recipe – maybe even kick it up a notch! Create retros that will leave your team satisfied, energized, and delivering better results. In this talk, we’ll look at four key ingredients to any retro Read more…
You want autonomous teams who are empowered to do great work. But then, leadership is constantly micromanaging everything you do. You want the freedom to collaborate, do team-building exercises, and have fun. But you get the feeling leadership is judging your every move. You want a different culture, but leadership Read more…
“If Agile teams are self-organizing, what do the managers do?“ Two decades into the Agile movement, it’s still surprisingly hard to find a clear answer to that simple question. Search the internet for answers, and you’ll find * over-simplified memes about the difference between leaders and managers * some experts Read more…
Do you tell someone if they have spinach in their teeth? Whether it’s superficial observations or extensive feedback, what feedback opportunities are you giving your teams and receiving in your own role to fuel your professional growth? We’ll discuss active listening techniques, creating a safe environment, integrating feedback loops in Read more…
Support your transformation by facilitating the essential cultural change that fuels and supports new processes, new ways of thinking and acting. Help the amazing people who work for you change their behaviors, language, expectations–and eventually beliefs– by helping them practice where business culture is most visible, most reinforced, and where Read more…
Audience: Every conference attendee who is, has been or will be part of a broad change initiative, like an “Agile Transformation” within their organizations. Adopting and improving Agility is disruptive and inevitably impacts, or will be impacted by, your organization’s culture. How can we engage leaders and peers more effectively Read more…