Archive for Pillars
Group TheraPy without a Word
Posted by: | CommentsFrom a tweet via RT @Ashley_Leach and @Jos_de_Jong, I viewed this Ted Video. Bobby McFerri gets the whole audience to sing together, without talking. In this fun, 3-min performance from the World Science Festival, musician Bobby McFerrin uses the pentatonic scale to reveal one surprising result of the way our brains are wired.
Can training be this easy? Engagement, compelling and fun happens in the most un-complicated ways.
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Core Concepts of Gamification Brilliant – Learn by Doing
What is a great Team?
Why bother with Value Networks?
Identifying your Lean sales and marketing teams
Teamwork and Collaboration thru the eyes of Cisco
Posted by: | CommentsCisco CEO John Chambers explains how abandoning command-and-control leadership has enabled the company to innovate more quickly, using collaboration and teamwork. An excellent representation of how to implement teamwork and collaboration while still reaping the effectiveness and efficiency.
Some of Cisco’s best practices were studied by NASA and here are a few of the recommendations that they made:
- Institutionalize collaboration with measurable collaboration criteria.
- Teamwork and collaboration should be part of the incentive plan for employee and executives.
- Technology enhancements like desktop and video conferencing and web-based tools to support collaboration.
- Policy changes for increased and flexible travel budgeting to support the growing importance of collaboration such as travel for lower level management and greater mobility opportunity for project management.
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What is a great Team?
Why bother with Value Networks?
Identifying your Lean sales and marketing teams
What will your workplace be like in 2020?
What’s behind Collaboration and Value Networks?
SALES PDCA Framework for Lean Sales and Marketing
Managing your Lean Marketing Team in a Sales PDCA Cycle
Posted by: | CommentsIn a previous post, I discussed the SALES PDCA Framework for Lean Sales and Marketing Teams. Within the actual PDCA stage the sales team is empowered to make their own choices and determine their own direction to accomplish the goals of that cycle. This framework is introduced in the book, Marketing with PDCA
During these individual cycle work is patterned off something I would label a ScrumBan Sprint. The actual work of the team utilizes the sprint features of Scrum but the work of the Value Stream Manager and the Team Coordinator utilize the principles of Kanban. Those roles are very similar to the Product Manager and Scrum Master respectively described in this video.
Learn the Scrum software development methodology in less than 10 minutes. By the end of this fast-paced video, you’ll practically be a scrum master. You’ll know about burn-down charts, team roles, product backlogs, sprints, daily scrums and more. Check out this page for FAQ on this video: http://www.axosoft.com/ontime/videos/scrum
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Identifying your Lean sales and marketing teams
Lean Sales and Marketing Team Roles
Improve your Sales Cycle, Work on your Feedback Loops
The Little PDCA Sales Loop
Scrumban is a term popularized by Corey Ladas in the book, Scrumban – Essays on Kanban Systems for Lean Software Development
