AI Agents: Remember the Human in the Loop
If you’re a manager, your job is not going away. But the way you do your job might… and that could be a really good thing. Businesses that use AI to expand their imagination will be the ones that thrive.
Helping Teams Perform: What Do You Mean By That?
In this article we help teams better perform by allowing individuals to ask a simple, yet valuable question: What do you mean by that? Find out what we mean in this article…
Middle Management, AI, and Your Career Transition
In this article we explore the challenges of today’s organizations: Middle Management and AI. There’s an elegant solution rather than full replacement and it comes from those being managed.
Lessons from Lucca: Rethinking Management from Inside the City Walls
What if your next 1:1 felt more like a walk around the walls of Lucca? For those of us leading teams or guiding transitions, there’s real power in slowing down, opening up, and thinking differently about what leadership looks like.
Trust and Collaboration: What’s a Manager To Do?
Effective collaboration within teams is a cornerstone of success in any organization. We delve into the significance of trust and testing in team dynamics.
Helping Teams Perform: Resolving Conflict with Workflows
Helping Teams Perform:Resolving Conflict with Workflows Helping Teams Perform:Resolving Conflictwith Workflows “You’re just getting this to me now? I have a hundred other things to do today,” was shouted down the hall, coming from the CEO’s office. The reaction was to an email request from our Marketing Director, to review several articles slated to go […]
Don’t Pass on the Gravy
Don’t Pass on the Gravy The development team was sent to the southwestern part of Rhode Island to kick off a project with a new client. New to the team myself, this was my first kick-off event where I would take the lead for the project’s duration. If you’ve been in one of these meetings, […]
Agile Practices: The Marketing Team Tries Sprints, Part III
Agile Practices: The Marketing Team Tries Sprints, Part III Let’s do a deep dive To recap, here are the Marketing Team’s average monthly deliverables by category during the trial: And here are the Team’s performance metrics before and after the trial: Outcomes Here are the percent-changes for each area the Team measured before and after […]
Agile Practices: The Marketing Team Tries Sprints, Part II
Previously… The Hunch As with any team, the Marketing team had their share of challenges. They decided one way to mitigate some of the pain-points they were experiencing was to conduct a trial run of sprints; where by identifying and coordinating work ahead of time, they would measurably improve their individual and overall performance. Analysis […]
Agile Practices: The Marketing Team Tries Sprints
Agile Practices: The Marketing Team Tries Sprints, Part I The Hunch By identifying and coordinating deliverables ahead of time, the Marketing team will improve their individual and overall performance while increasing job satisfaction. In Theory The Marketing team typically takes on work as it comes; requests from either outside contributors or the executive team. At […]