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Learning together as a team

Learning together as a team

The post explains a systems thinking approach for team learning, emphasizing mental models, curiosity over knowledge accumulation, and the importance of actionability. It introduces a technique involving a series of steps to foster collective understanding and address the blind spots inherent in any team environment. These steps guide a team to identify factors affecting their performance, analyze cause and effect relationships, identify dominant causes and effects, and ultimately make informed decisions to improve productivity and tackle challenging work. The method values facilitation, engagement, and the realization that learning is a continuous, shared process within a team’s system.

4 Habits for Remote Collaboration

4 Habits for Remote Collaboration

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, businesses are adapting by finding creative ways to work without physical contact. Effective remote collaboration is essential, with practices like deep listening, participation encouragement, and holding space for different viewpoints critical for maintaining effective communication and leadership. Embracing uncertainty, fostering teamwork, and developing strong communication habits are key for teams to thrive, especially for those already familiar with agile methodologies like daily Scrums. Leaders are encouraged to step up with humanity and humility during these rapid changes.

Decide how you decide

Decide how you decide

Effective team decisions depend on how they’re made and should foster unity post-choice. Not pre-setting decision procedures can cause confusion and frustration. Methods like consensus, majority vote, or leader decides, each suit different contexts, but clarity on the approach is crucial. Agile coaching can help establish these decision-making norms to prevent misunderstandings and improve long-term effectiveness.

Scrum Master stances

Scrum Master stances

Here are Scrum Master stances. Although default stance for a scrum master is to be in service to their scrum team. Where in she is identifying and removing impediments to serve their team. By improving organizational systems so that impediments do not recur they serve...