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.
Setting priorities can feel like alphabet soup: MoSCoW, RICE, and WSJF to name a few. In Navigating the Human Side of Prioritization, we’ll move beyond the acronyms to take a look at the often-overlooked aspect of setting priorities—the human factor. This session is about understanding the psychological and social dynamics Read more…
*Overview: Do you have the courage to climb Mt. Accountability? Dare to be courageous with me as we shift from a powerless to a powerful mindset! “There’s nothing I can do… It’s out of my control… Someone else will have to solve for this.” Without accountability, it becomes very difficult Read more…
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…
If we value efficient and effective use of time, money, and talent;it is on us to find better ways of working. We might need “A Minute to Think”,time for “Deep Work”,to adopt “Essentialism”, and to make our actions and results “Effortless”. This presentation explores common challenges that plaque individuals and Read more…
Many agile practitioners extoll the value of being over doing or mindset over behaviors, but what does that actually mean? To answer that question, let’s look at guiding principles that have been around for centuries: Japanese budo. There are five states of mind associated with traditional Japanese martial arts: Soshin, Read more…
No leader wants to walk into a conversation-filled room, only to have everyone go silent and stare at them. Too frequently, this is followed by an attempt to diminish the power dynamics with “just consider me one of the team.” Only this fails to work, over and over and over. Read more…
How can a coach or leader change people’s behavior without authority over them? By changing their minds! In this session we will share the surprising and sometimes counter-intuitive results of research into persuasion techniques used by the best negotiators, debaters, coaches, and even ‘vaccine whisperers’. You’ll learn nine proven and practical ways to increase your influence, even if you’re not the boss!