You Don’t Need Carrots to Motivate People
What motivates you? After few years as a team leader/manager/scrum master/agile coach, there is always a simple question that comes to me every time I start to work with a new team: “how to motivate...
View ArticleWhy are core values important?: My journey to find my core values
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 […]...
View ArticleThe power of words…
Hello everyone, Today, I wanted to share one video I found 4 years ago, and I loved. I use this video in every single team. It represents a lot my day work, and the power of words to me as a leader....
View ArticlePerformance appraisal: Hero or Villain?. The context – Part 1
If you often read books about performance appraisals, management, and soft skill development, maybe you will not find a lot of new things here. My intention is to write down all that I have experienced...
View ArticleNo Agile Training Required: 10 important things I learned from my parents
Children learn to smile from their parents – Shinichi Suzuki Last week I got a call from my mother, and for some reason, a lot of good memories came flooding back to my mind. Unfortunately, due to a...
View ArticlePerformance appraisal: Hero or Villain?. The context – Part 2
As I promised in the first post of the series, today I will give more context for why I really believe that performance appraisals, as we know them today, are not working at all. All that you will read...
View ArticleExtreme Makeover – Performance Appraisal Edition – A Framework (First Draft)
Hello, after some context in this post series about Performance Appraisal, I will start to share the framework and what I did in later years to avoid the unpleasant effects from traditional performance...
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