In this episode, we speak to Simon Powers, Coach and Founder of Adventures with Agile (AWA). Simon talks about the journey he’s personally been on, the learnings he’s had from transformations. Highlights of Simon’s story, – Start of his transformation journey, what it means to him and the humanistic side of transformation. – Exploration of what ‘Leadership First’ means to him. – Going from being…
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Transformation From The Trenches – S01E01 The Hosts
We have just released our Podcast “Transformation From The Trenches” and this first episode is an introduction of the hosts allowing you the auidence to get a feeling of who we are and what we are about. We are passionate about support transformation wherever it shows up, and this has spurred our passion for shining a light on what transformation looks like on the ground….
A Christmas Ritual to a Christmas Wish
Recently I have become interested in rituals, where they come from and understanding their importance to me. This has become of interest in relation to my focus on Coaching and it’s a fascinating subject. So, with Christmas being something that is full of rituals, I wanted to look at them in more detail. The big picture: I mapped out all of the rituals that make…
Agility In A Highly Regulated Environment
I have worked in a lot of highly regulated industries from banking to pharmaceutical and I want to explore some ways we may be able to challenge our thinking around how we deliver value in these environments while achieving the greatest level of Agility possible. Let’s look to unlock the organisations potential, we hold the key… In order to explore this, I thought I would…
Never Focus on KPI’s
Realms of Potential Customers
Lead Role or Leadership Behaviors & Mindset
Facilitating in the Moment
Over the past few weeks I have spent quite a bit of time either facilitating or coaching other facilitators in various sessions. My natural style of facilitation is to prepare only the very basics in terms of materials I need, how I will check people in and out and the overall goal for the session. I may think about the format I want to use…
The Power of Language
In my role as a Coach, I spend a lot of time listening. What I hear people say they want and the language they use seem to be at odds, let me explain… Language is often something I find people either don’t focus enough on or don’t understand in terms of its true power. Language is such a big part of shaping behavior, culture and…
The Promises of Frameworks - Do they know your system?
I have been a coach for 5+ years now primarily focusing on enterprise agility. During that time I have worked at many organisations and worked with a number of frameworks including LeSS, Scrum, Kanban etc. During this time I have worked closely across the organisations and teams on their journey of using these frameworks and I wanted to share my thoughts and pose a few…