In 2021 I attended the first module of Organizational Relationship Systems @work. Upfront the following reading was recommended: Gottmann, Silver: The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work. The book is based on decades of work with couples and data analysis. According to his own statement, the author is now able to predict with a very„The “team marriage” or the fight against the four horsemen of the apocalypse“ weiterlesen
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Lego®️4 Scrum with 50 people
“We want to experience agile, but we only know a little about it yet. We’re 50 people and we have about 3 hrs time.” Lego4Scrum was invented by Alexey Krivitsky who wrote a book about it. It was the base for this 3 hour workshop. In this book he describes how you can build a„Lego®️4 Scrum with 50 people“ weiterlesen
Designed Team Alliance – a tool for teams and families
For a team – and I set team and family alike in this blogpost – it’s very helpful to make explicit how they want to be while working together. As a facilitator I ask: “What’s important to you in your working relationship?” Words like “respect”, “helpfulness”, “goal oriented”, “committed”, etc are being named often. The„Designed Team Alliance – a tool for teams and families“ weiterlesen
Are we red or are we blue
It’s always fun to facilitate an Agile Basics Training. This time 25 participants waited for my colleague and me. The company builds storage facilities and automates them for their customers. Lately they experienced that new customers demanded in the contracting phase that the process should be agile. Now they wandered if that was really necessary„Are we red or are we blue“ weiterlesen
Why it‘s important to trust
Trust seems to be the essence for success in modern organisations. Especially for agile organisations or the ones that are on their way of becoming one. The article in HBR “The Neuroscience of trust” made that very clear by showing some numbers. It’s the task of every leader in an organisation to foster trust. To„Why it‘s important to trust“ weiterlesen
The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work
2019 I attended the first module of the ORSC™ series*. The book „The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work“ was recommended as an introduction. The book is based on decades of work with couples and data analysis. J. Gottman claims to have a 91% probability of predicting whether a couple will stay together or break„The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work“ weiterlesen
My ORSC™ course series experience
End of July I finished the last ORSC course in the training series: Systems Integration. ORSC™ stands for Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching. ORS@Work (Organization and Relationship Systems at Work) in 2019 was my first course in the ORSC™ series. It was a two-day course that explored the ORSC™ coaching model, and is a business-focused version„My ORSC™ course series experience„ weiterlesen
Working across language barriers
With the new client came a new challenge. The teams were distributed and had many team members from an Asian country. In my first encounter I had difficulties to understand my conversational partner. I managed to ask for clarification once or twice, but most of the conversation was more like a guessing game to me.„Working across language barriers“ weiterlesen
Playful Nuremberg
Hence I changed the company in June, I wanted to create another agile community. With the help of my colleague Chris (barefootagile) this became true. We were clear about what we wanted. The mission: In our working environments we see a lack of playful opportunities to learn, a lack of experiments. Because of that we„Playful Nuremberg“ weiterlesen
How to kill zombies – or my first day at my new job
Sebastian and Chris wanted to give a talk at agileworld in Munich. The topic was „Living and Dying in companies“. Furthermore they had the obligation to take care of their two new colleagues Maren and me. They came up with the idea to involve us in the talk somehow. As the topic was about the„How to kill zombies – or my first day at my new job“ weiterlesen
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