Better, Faster, Happier

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  • Leadership and the power of anticipation

    I had the honour of speaking to the power houses Lois and Carmen from Rebels at Work.


    Tune in to listen to our conversation, with the following highlights:

    🔍Anticipation: Having the time to think about what will be on the road ahead.

    🔍Killing assumptions along the way will lead to better collaboration

    🔍What % of your processes do you need to change to keep up with the changing environment.


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    23 min
  • The pursuit of better faster happier organisations with Claire Donald

    I had the honour to speak to the VP of Engineering at MOO Claire Donald on the subject creating better, faster and happier organizations. Claire doesn't know this but she is a badass and one of my favourite women to talk to about this subject.


    Tune in to listen to our conversation, with the following highlights:


    🔍 The role of leadership as a facilitator, motivator and extraction of talent not acommander.


    🙏 Moving away from a big bi annual pulse survey to monthly incremental pulse checks.


    🎁 Product and Commercial strategy should be based on the problems you anticipate that your customers may experience in the future.


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    31 min
  • The impact of getting closer to the customer.

    I had the honour to speak to Agile coach Bharti Rupani on the subject creating better, faster and happier organizations.

    Tune in to listen to our conversation, with the following highlights:


    🔍 Go into detail with practical advice on how to bring the customer closer to teams.


    🙏 We have policies in the workplace that come from a place of a mistrust which doesn't allow us to do better.


    🎁 Lack of clarity around what we're trying to achieve in teams stops us from delivering better products/projects.


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    26 min
  • We need to talk - the influence of radical candor in teams

    Personal trainer turned Agile Coach, Ben Clayton shares his view on what it takes to create a better, faster and happier teams within organisations.


    His unique experience as a personal trainer really enables him to have what I would call radical condor conversations with teams and leaders.


    We explore principles of personal training and how we can learn a thing or two from that when it comes to making teams and organisations better, faster and happier.


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    32 min
  • Management is not a reward its an art

    I had the honour to speak to Nikita Ingratta an experienced Product Manager and fellow Agile Coach on the subject creating better, faster and happier organizations.


    Tune in to listen to our conversation, with the following highlights:


    🔍 Management should not be a reward for work as it takes away the importance of getting the right people into the role.

    🙏 The importance behind trust in teams and organisations, especially when it comes to stakeholders.



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    28 min
  • Customising a better, faster and happier workplace

    I had the honour to speak to Shar and Frank from Plural Futures lab on the subject creating better, faster and happier organizations.


    Tune in to listen to our conversation, with the following highlights:


    🔍 The challenge is to find a balance between efficiency and effectiveness.

    🎁 We often work based on assumptions, what happens when we get the customer in the room and get them to define what better, faster and happier means and look like.

    🙏 What happens when a team is able to understand the uniqueness and strengths that each individual brings.


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    27 min
  • The impact of culture and leadership on organisational development

    In this episode we have an awesome chat with Gidion from Organize Agile, who are based in The Netherlands and New York. We explore what happens when we adopt agile or other tools such as OKRs without a clear sense of what culture we want to build. Moreover we also explored the idea of a leadership team working like a scrum team, imagine the mayhem and awesomeness that would come out of it. Then we also dive into the impact broken relationships have on organisation culture.


    You may also want to know that Organize Agile are doing a world wide investigation into the state of Agile HR across businesses and sectors. You can access more information on this via their website, right here.


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    27 min
  • From managing the burnout burn down to the science behind micro managing

    In this episode, we discuss with Dr Aneika Simmons and her husband, Anjuan Simmons, are public speakers who operate at the intersection of business and technology. They share their thoughts about how managing stress can help organisations achieve better business outcomes, deliver faster value to customers, and create a happier workforce

    Here's the link that covers the topic of their talk at The Lead Developer conference in New York back in April https://anjuansimmons.com/talks/managing-the-burnout-burndown/

    here's a direct link to a video of us giving the talk: https://youtu.be/e2dgOfedI3A

     

     


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    36 min
  • Managing the burnout burn down to the science behind Micro Managing
    In this episode, we discuss with Dr Aneika Simmons and her husband, Anjuan Simmons, are public speakers who operate at the intersection of business and technology. They share their thoughts about how managing stress can help organizations achieve better business outcomes, deliver faster value to customers, and create a happier workforce
    Here's the link that covers the topic of their talk at The Lead Developer conference in New York back in April https://anjuansimmons.com/talks/managing-the-burnout-burndown/
    here's a direct link to a video of us giving the talk:  https://youtu.be/e2dgOfedI3A
    36 min
  • Embedding Continuous Improvement

    In this episode, we discuss with Chris Lacinak, the founder and president from AVP.  We explore the topic of continuous improvement and the shadow of perfectionism. In particular, Chris does a great job in providing examples of how AVP is trying to embed continuous improvement and balance of happiness into their DNA.

    Find out more about AVP here: https://www.weareavp.com

     

     


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    29 min

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