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Agile Simulation – The Daily Standup Meeting

Posted on May 20, 2013 · Leave a Comment 

VideoWhat better way to learn how to do a great Daily Standup than watching it done right before your very eyes in just 10 mins!

First witness a disfunctional way of doing Standups – then see how it should be done.

It really is an excellent example to watch and learn.

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WEBINAR: Coping with Multitasking During Project Meetings (9/17)

Posted on September 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment 

During your project meetings, are the participants

reading email, surfing the web, or doing instant messaging
while they “half-listen” to the meeting?

Research shows that 90% of people participating in virtual meetings are “multitasking”: doing at least one other thing that is not related to the meeting.

Wouldn’t it be better for your project outcome if team members and stakeholders paid full attention for the whole meeting?

 You may be surprised at the answer.

 This entertaining and information-packed talk examines the challenge of multitasking and teaches coping skills, techniques, and tools to manage the attention of meeting participants.

Created and delivered by a master presenter who is a veteran of both project management and executive management, this course shows you how to manage participants’ attention, get your issues resolved, and adjourn the meeting with time to spare.

After this presentation, you will be able to:

  • Take a rational, systematic approach to managing attention
  • Get more done in less time
  • Apply techniques that reduce everyone’s frustration level

Why attend?

  • You sense that meeting participants are not paying enough attention.
  • You have trouble getting informed decisions from busy stakeholders.
  • Your meetings run too long and still do not achieve their goals.
  • You experience mounting frustration about multitasking

Presenter: Jim Black (LinkedIn profile), PhD

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LIVE COACHING RECORDING – Accountability: Creating Winning Teams !

Posted on September 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

Back by popular demand…Join us at this 1 hour live coaching session where Birgit Zacher Hanson, author of Who Will Do What by When? will reveal how to change the accountability game and make it winnable. Birgit will also answer questions in real-time while coach participants on real-life-issues that relates to getting others to commit and follow-through.

Birgit helps corporations with the following – she can help you too !

  • Strengthen leadership capabilities and help leaders develop coaching skills that lead to sustainable excellence
  • Build collaborative teams and work cultures that enable superior project execution in alignment with business strategy
  • Empower individuals to fulfill on their potential and reach new levels of success

Can you make people do anything they don’t want to do?

Holding others accountable is a myth. It’s like Sisyphus being condemned to pushing the rock up the hill… It’s exhausting. If you are a manager whose job it is to get a team to work together and get the job done, this may be bad news. I am sorry.

I know it can be extremely frustrating when nothing you say or do seems to make a sustainable difference with some people.

You can micromanage, push, scold, even threaten certain people and get what you need for a little while, but as soon as you turn them loose, the rock rolls downhill again. And you start over, doing the same thing you have been doing – pushing, scolding, complaining like a broken record.

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NEW RECORDING: COACHING – Accountability: Creating a Winnable Game

Posted on July 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment 

Can you make people do anything they don’t want to do?

Holding others accountable is a myth.  It’s like Sisyphus being condemned to pushing the rock up the hill… It’s exhausting.  If you are a manager whose job it is to get a team to work together and get the job done, this may be bad news.  I am sorry.

I know it can be extremely frustrating when nothing you say or do seems to make a sustainable difference with some people.

You can micromanage, push, scold, even threaten certain people and get what you need for a little while, but as soon as you turn them loose, the rock rolls downhill again.  And you start over, doing the same thing you have been doing – pushing, scolding, complaining like a broken record.

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