Top 3 grunde til at deltage på Professional Agile Leadership Essentials kurset
Forleden blev jeg spurgt om tre gode grunde til at ledere skal deltage på Professional Agile Leadership Essentials (PAL-E) kurset. Det er selvfølgelige et super relevant spørgsmål, inden man som…
Effektiv ledelse sker i relationerne
Effektiv ledelse er ikke forbeholdt lederen. Ej heller er det forbeholdt de ansætte, som der ellers er meget snak om for tiden. ”Followership” kalder vi det på nydansk, når vi skal…
Når lederen går forrest ved indførelsen af Agile
De typiske udfordringer ved introduktion af agile metoder, er organisatoriske. Det betyder, at vil man som leder have den fulde effekt af investeringen i agile coaches, Product Owner kurser, Scrum Masters certificeringer…
Fatal Management
I must admit, I sometimes deliberately, and probably more often unknowingly, provoke my clients to help them think differently about leadership and how they can help their organizations adapt to…
Summer Greetings and Questions Every Manager Should Ask
First of all, I hope you have had an awesome summer doing the things you really care about. My summer was nothing short of amazing. Four weeks prior to our…
Move the Coffee Machine to Increase Innovation
Almost 20 years ago, I applied for a developer position at a very large Danish-based company. I completed multiple tests and interviews but was rejected in the end by the…
Leaders Need to Create Fearless Environments
It seems fitting that I’m writing this post on board a Dreamliner. I’m heading to Miami to participate in the Freedom at Work Summit. For three days, we will be…
8 Leadership Lessons Coaching 8-Year-Old Soccer Girls
Last year, I had the privilege of co-coaching my youngest daughter’s soccer team. I joined two young coaches and a team manager; together, we were responsible for coaching about 20…
You Need People, Not “Resources”, to Build a High-Performing Agile Team
When building a high-performing Agile team, or any team for that matter, you need to look at people as more than “resources”. If they were just “resources”, their contribution would be…
How to Attract and Retain the Top Millennial Talents with Agile
In 2020, 50% of the global workforce will be millennials (people born approximately between 1982 and 2004). The millennial generation is one of the largest and best educated in history, and…
Ask Five Whys to End the Blame Game
Five whys is an effective questioning technique to identify the root of a problem. The idea is that by digging at least five levels deep into the initial issue, you…
Which Book Should a Mid-Level Manager New to Agile Read during the Christmas Holidays?
Yesterday, my colleague, Kristian Haugaard (@haugaards), asked on our Ugilic Google hangout; Which book should a mid-level manager new to Agile read during the christmas holidays? My instinctive answer was Scrum for…