In early stage idea generation or prototyping, it's important to balance your team's brick and balloon tendencies. Make sure you get "out of the weeds", but don’t get "in the clouds" either. This balance is especially important when....
Have a Meaningful Project Retrospective (and still leave as friends)
We've all been there: the project retrospective that is either tense and full of blame, or the one that is sugar-coated and not grounded in reality. They are equally painful and equally ineffective. After facilitating at least 50 or so retrospectives, I've found a method that....
4 Strategies To Dispel Groupthink and Encourage Idea Contribution
How to overcome the groupthink phenomenon? Try some of these simple strategies:
1. Keep team size manageable. No more than 10 people, 8 or less is even better. If you need to do more than one "shift", so be.....
Driving team performance is all about increasing engagement, building cohesion, and developing trusted working relationships. So why do drama, politics, tension, and conflict get in the way of real progress?
Reset Your Work With These 4 Steps
Clean up: 15 mins. Reflect: 4 minutes every other day (or daily if you’d like). Send a quick note of thanks: 9 mins. Reassess...
Next time you’re faced with an option - think carefully about whether the scenario calls for communication instead of collaboration (and vice versa). Here are....
I always love asking people “If you could wake up tomorrow being an expert in one area, what would it be?” I get a lot of answers - a lot of dreams to master a musical instrum...
What Going Back To School Taught Me About Learning
Perhaps what I learned the most, unintentionally, was about learning itself, and the importance of a specific kind of continuing education. Here are the top 5 learnings about...
Since there is never really a single moment in time that can display the “full truth” of the organizational network, how might organizations leverage SNA to track the evolutions in an economical way?
Whereas culture guides and constrains our work and integration in an organization, engagement is how we interact with the culture: how we feel about the work...
Design Thinking & Diabetes
An interview with yours truly...
... spilled all over the ground. But then you take a deep breath and start picking them up, one by one, making order out of disorder.