Recovering from Reactive Leadership Tendencies
Our Tendencies Under Stress While this topic has been around for a while, it’s critical to understand your own reactive tendencies…
Catalyze Leadership Growth with OKRs
I delivered this talk multiple times in 2023, including this version in April. It combines two of my passions: OKR coaching…
Mapping the Path to Outcomes
Introduction Roadmaps help you envision a future direction for your product. The roadmap represents a snapshot of the current thinking at…
How to Create a Future Focused Vision in 5 Steps
Overview Over the years, I’ve had to facilitate the creation of a vision statement in custom workshops and standard courses. When…
Creating Quality OKRs – 3. Establish Proof, Not Credit
One of the exciting things about employing OKRs is that you are not certain to achieve them. As you might recall…
Creating Quality OKRs – 2. Create a Challenge
Introduction Challenge is an opportunity for growth. It’s a chance to move beyond where you currently are, but it won’t be…
6 Tips for Creating Quality OKRs
In my previous article, I highlighted the importance of shared goals and introduced OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) as a structure…
Creating Quality OKRs – 1. Spark People’s Interest
Spark People’s Interest Writing a quality OKR starts with the Objective, a short phrase capturing the essence of the goal. Good…
The Power of Shared Goals – Less is More
Shared Goals A unifying goal can galvanize and align leaders across locations, disciplines, lines of business and functional areas. This is…
The Road to Potentially Shippable
What does it mean to have a potentially shippable product increment each sprint? Why does it matter? What happens if you…