Hello readers, Today I personally started to re-watch a few videos that inspired me quite a lot. I would like to take advantage of my blog to share them with you. In this post, a TED talk from Nancy Duarte about […]
Could you stop training your people? You are losing your time and money. I don’t have any problem with training, however, I fully believe that training is not what your employees need from you today. Let’s do an exercise: […]
Last weekend, I was able to run one full day “scrum workshop” with my colleague and friend Jesus Mendez. During the full day, we go through an agile deployment situation. We started with some basic concepts about agile and scrum, […]
If we are looking for values, the list could be long. You only need to search a little bit in google images, and you will find a lot of images with very good values to follow and respect. Here is […]
Today, another experience with some of my teams, in this case I will address “Feedback” inside the team: one way to get feedback and improve your team. A few months ago I was feeling like a “feedback” collector on behalf […]
In this workshop, you can see how a session group works. Again, this is what people ask for, and I think that a few pictures speak better than a 1000 words. In these sessions, we work very hard in the […]
Hello, Today, I will try to provide answers for those people that sometimes are not sure why they need a facilitator. In the past few months, I’ve had a lot of short talks with colleges and friends; a common comment […]
Today, I want to share few pictures to give you an idea what a Lego serious play workshop looks like. A lot of people asked me what I do in those sessions, or what the people do there. I am […]
Hello, Today, as I promised; here is the second post about building a high performance team. I will develop “the selection”. First of all, I will try to remember my first formal hiring process around 1998. I also recognize that I have […]
Hello, A long time ago, when I got my first manager’s position, I had a lot of questions. As a technical guy, I asked myself if this position was for me. “Should I continue doing code?” “Should I only aspire […]
Hello, Today here is another interesting subject for today’s leaders: Happiness. How to generate happy moments? It is clear that, as humans, we are not able to spend 100% of the time being happy (I would like it :)). Personally, […]
Hello, Today, I want to share with you two really nice videos. First of all, I love RSAnimation videos, but this one gave me an extra clarification about our work as a leader. It explains very well how we […]
I’ve failed over and over, and that is why I succeed – Michel Jordan Hello, after going a while without writing something new, today I want to share with you something I read lately. It applies very well for […]
Today, I will introduce you the last technique to get more “Options“: “Think outside the box“. If it is the first post you have read about “Options” as a coaching approach/technique, you could take a look at the original post, […]
Today, we will write down real questions to give you examples of how to work with “Ideal Future Technique“. If you want to refresh your memory; you can take a look at the original post where you will find […]
Today, as I already announced in “Coaching Session – Real Questions” post, I will continue with few more posts to help you to generate options inside your team/individual as the coach/scrum master. In this post the technique/approach is “Obstacle Approach”. Obstacle […]
Hello all, Trying to think of a subject for my next post, I started to think about my challenges when I started as coach. If you don’t know yet, English is not my mother tongue and I needed to pay special […]
In this post I will approach “Options”. As coach and/or scrum master, you will need a lot of time to help the team/individual to find options. Generating options by asking the team/individual to think instead of offering advice or solutions (100% coach mode) […]
Today, I want to share with you one fantastic experience helping one HR department with job interviews. In my +15 years of experience I participated in few job interview. I always had the feeling that I am getting “prepared” answers. […]
Almost everybody had a favorite super-hero when we were kids. Some of them have kept close to their image and principles, even in their adult life. However, not everybody knows that each super-hero is vulnerable. Why not, we are? Super-hero […]
What is Lean coffee? It is a meeting format where people build an agenda at the beginning of the meeting and they start talking about each item on the agenda. Conversations are direct and productive because the meeting agenda is democratically […]