KnolShare with Dr. Dave

Dr. Dave Cornelius presents "Cocka- doodle-doo, gotta make a move. Belonging and Healing in 2023" at the Agile for Humanity 2023 bi-monthly meetup. We are continuing the series “Resiliently You” to discover what makes people resilient to build high-performing organizations and sense belonging and healing. We are streaming from the Agile for Humanity January 2023 virtual meetup. The topic is creating Your 2023 Visioning Journey Map. I invite you to visit the www.AgileFORHumanity.org website to experience creating Your 2023 Visioning Journey Map.

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- Hello and welcome to the

Knolshare With Dr. Dave Podcast. I am Dr. Dave Cornelius, your host.

We are continuing the series, "Resiliently You," to discover what makes people resilient to build high-performing organizations and sense belonging and healing.

We're streaming from the Agile for Humanity January 2023 virtual meetup. The topic today is creating Your 2023 Visioning Journey Map.

I invite you to visit the Agile for Humanity website to experience creating your 2023 Visioning Journey Map. That's www.AgileF-O-RHumanity.org.

Okay, awesome.

So, you know, where we're

gonna kick off today is this...

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We're gonna kick off by

just doing a check-in.

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This comes from, and I don't

know why I'm spacing on this,

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but core protocols.

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This is one of the core protocols

called check-in, checkout.

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And I like using this

format because it's fun

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and it's simple and it's

easy for people to follow.

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So why don't we go and, we're agilists

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so just whoever wants

to go first, go first,

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and then the first person then popcorns

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and calls someone else

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and then down the line like that.

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So who wants to start?

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- Oh, I can go first.

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- [Dr. Dave] There you go.

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- So yeah, checking in.

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My name is Adrian Terry.

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One thing I'm grateful for is

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another opportunity to learn

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how I can make a difference.

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And why?

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That's just really important to me

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to know that I am making an

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That's just really important to me.

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And then I am in--

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Welcome to the KnolShare with Dr. Dave Podcast.  I am Dr. Dave Cornelius, your host.  We are continuing the series “Resiliently You” to discover what makes people resilient to build resilient organizations and sense belonging and healing.

My guest today is Adrian Terry.

 

Please provide an elevator pitch about your journey as a leader for the IT transformation.

I've served in several delivery roles within the project management discipline. I often wondered, “What is the rationale for a given effort?”  I would lose sight on the WHY for the initiative not realizing that many of these efforts were needed to help transform the organization. My career now has me placed closer to the decision-making strategy table where I can help drive transformation.

How would you define resilience in context of leading an IT transformation?

Transformation is the vehicle for achieving greater resiliency. The two main avenues are (1) to transform because leaders have a vision for creating new/improving existing capabilities that provide greater value to customers, or (2) transforming because of low operational performance and losses in revenue. The first scenario is preferred over the latter. The visionary attitude for transformation has a theology that drives a more pre-emptive attitude for change as opposed to reacting to things like losing market share to the competition.

 

Why is resilience an important skill to cultivate in a world that is filled with Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA)?

To be more resilient means to incorporate operating routines that are more gymnastic than traditional ways of working. While the usual tenets are to reduce operating costs, increase revenues, and improve margins…the ultimate goal with resiliency is to improve stability by helping the organization become more elastic. When this is done using a flexible strategic planning model and tools like horizon planning, the org is equipped to address the four elements of VUCA.

 

What makes you resilient?

An ongoing quest to understand what I DON’T know so I can make plans to learn it. I have a genuine fear of being ignorant. I want to know what I’m supposed to know. My passion for learning has distinguished me from my pears; I love the idea of Lean Agile Leadership which provides the value proposition for a growth mindset over a fixed mindset.

 

How do you deliver value through the IT transformation? In answering this question, can you provide a definition of what it means to deliver value?

By recognizing there will always be the next new technology and way of working, the IT transformation can serve as the tip of the spear for those initiatives that accelerate the adoption of these themes. Value through the transformation is seen in the development of UVPs, MVLs, MVPs, and other Opportunity Assessment type exercises. The transformation may not own efforts long-term but can help drive the evaluation of opportunities to determine which opportunities are best-fit/right-fit for the organization. A good example is an organization’s interviewing process. The transformation took on the idea of Panel Interviews to improve the speed for onboarding new talent. Value has realized on behalf of the hiring managers and the employees.

 

What are some tangible benefits gained by organizations via the IT transformation?

In addition to the realized value from the transformation initiatives, Knowledge Management is improved because of the frequency and volume of discoveries. To realize this benefit, a transformation team needs to be sourced from a good cross-section of the organiza...

Dr. Dave  00:07

We all have some notion today. What is the importance of belonging? A why do we all need to belong somewhere, it is built into human nature. Learn how the powerful philosophy of Ubuntu helps to deliver a simple roadmap to building positive teams and relationships, improving engagement and performance. Get your copy of belonging and healing, creating awesomeness for yourself and others by Dr. Dave Cornelius on amazon.com

Dr. Dave 

Hello, and welcome to the Dr. Dave. I am document familiar with your hosts. We are continuing the series resiliently you to discover what makes people resilient to build resilient organization and sense belonging and healing. My guest today is Allison Pollard is one a good friend, someone that I enjoy speaking with. And she's on this new journey. And I can't wait wait to learn more. So welcome, Allison.

Allison  01:12

Yeah. Thank you.

 

Dr. Dave  01:15

Yeah, that's it. Nothing more.

 

Allison  01:21

I still don't remember exactly when we met. I want to say it was the Agile gathering West. Many years ago. That was probably like the first place that we we came together, but I could be wrong on that.

 

Dr. Dave  01:35

No, you're completely right. We were at that camp in Southern California. Old Boy Scout camp. Right. And we had this agile. Yeah, yes. That's where we met. Yes, it's been a long time ago.

 

Allison  01:54

Yeah. Nothing like an open space event with a bunch of analysts at a Boy Scout camp.

 

Dr. Dave  02:03

Yeah, remember the times we were you know, we would go outside and around the bonfire and marshmallows and s'mores and yeah, yeah. That was us. For sure, for sure. So I want an elevator pitch about your journey as a leader in the Agile community. You know, give me what give us one adult so my people could know who you are. Our people?

 

Allison  02:30

Yeah, I know, right? Well, I'm Alison Pollard. I'm a coach, consultant, and trainer, working with helping improve. I'm actually their newest business partner. I'm one of three co owners. So I'm very excited about that. My agile journey, I just fell in love with agile, I had come from project management, I love technology, I was always looking at how could I make things better? For our customers? How can I make things better for the developers? How could I make things better for myself, and agile seemed like a way of really being able to live into that, you know, learning about these different practices, you know, learning about Lean after that, and some of the principles there. Just getting exposed to a larger community, I think was such a big impact in my career, of how can I then, like, make use of that and then continue to pay it forward. We're all on a journey. We're all looking at how we can make things better. And I think by being in relationships with one another and sharing ideas and challenging each other, we can come up with ways to make things better than we could individually by ourselves.

 

Dr. Dave  03:52

Well said, so now you're under a new adventure, you know, after working for many years, but the same company, everyone, you, Alison, because she works for improving, worked for improved in the past. Tell us about this new plan journey.

 

Allison  04:09

Yeah, yeah, this is. This is yeah, you're right. Like, I'm like, oh, yeah, a long time, like I was with improving for about 11 years. 11 years is unheard of. I think in our industry, no one stays at companies for nearly that long. And it was, it was such an incredible year, you know,

Organizational Change is an Individual Choice - Balancing individual and collective needs as our organizations evolve.

Organizational Change is an Individual Choice - Balancing individual and collective needs as our organizations evolve.

It is no longer enough to make it through the next reorganization, growth challenge, or market shift. Rather, we must choose to find a way to belong amongst the heaving rates of change we constantly find ourselves in for our own wellbeing. We are called instead to master the change process itself. We are called, over and over, to deepen our understanding of the value we might create together. And in that understanding, make commitments that are both public and also deeply personal. These commitments can be at odds with our personal goals and ambitions. The question then becomes: “how might we co-create an organization that fulfills its purpose AND enables us to fulfill our own?”

Enterprise coach Kevin Callahan will explore this question and invite listeners to join him. They can expect to leave the talk with their own questions to explore individually and together.

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What is the importance of belonging and why do we all need to belong somewhere? It is built into our human nature. Learn how the powerful philosophy of Ubuntu helps to deliver a simple roadmap to building positive teams and relationships, improving engagement and performance. Get your copy of Belonging and Healing: Creating Awesomeness for Yourself and Others by Dr. Dave Cornelius on amazon.com.

 

Dr. Dave:

Welcome to the KnolShare with Dr. Dave Podcast. I'm Dr. Dave Cornelius, your host. We're continuing the series Resiliently You to discover what makes people resilient to build resilient organizations and sense belonging and healing. My guest today is Lorienne Nseka, Corporate Private Attorney at Scaled Agile Inc. So hey Lorienne, welcome and let's just get started with an elevator pitch and talk about your superpower a bit.

Lorienne:

My name is Lorienne Nseka, most people call me Lo. I'm a Corporate Attorney at Scaled Agile. I specialize in privacy and copyright law for SAI. We handle a wide range of contractual, or I handle a wide range of contractual transactions for them. SAI is a business agility consulting service provider and we help companies to become more confident in responding to the ever-changing economic market to scale their transformation while sustaining outcomes. And most importantly, we help companies empower their employees.

I think being a lawyer is a superpower in itself. Our job is to think critically and we're taught to question everything, cross examine everyone, people you're dating, your family, your friends, and we're taught discipline with how law school is structured and how hard it is. So we gain the ability to break down any problem, examine it, and put it all back together again. And that's not something that everyone could do.

And my personal power is my drive and my determination. I'm an extremely motivated individual. When I commit to something, I'm set and I'm determined to succeed. And my motivation enhances my capability of thinking, it helps me generate ideas and I'm always thinking and trying to find new creative ways to reach my goals. So, given my life journey, which is a subject for another podcast, I would not be where I am today without my superpower of motivation and drive.

Dr. Dave:

So how do you define resilient people?

Lorienne:

Resilient people. I'm going to start this off with a story. My father was born in a small village in the Democratic Republic of Congo. His mom was blind his whole life and both of his parents died at a very young age, or when my dad was at a very young age. So he grew up as a poor orphan in a third world country. And before my dad retired, he just retired last year, he was a aerospace expert consultant for all of Central Africa. He's helped his siblings move his family to America. He's brought, obviously me and my whole siblings here. He's helped my mom move her whole family to the US, and that's a big deal for people that are from a third world country.

My dad's very, he's a successful man, but his most proud accomplishment is the fact that he takes care of orphans, helping them see that there's hope and that bad things do happen to us in this world, but there is people out there that care and if you keep pushing for your goals, you will accomplish great things. And I say all this to say that I define resilient people as people who are able to adapt and do better than the traumatizing situation that they've been through. And not only that, but they have the capability of reaching back and helping people in the same or similar situations to realize that they too could make it.

Kayanna:

Let's talk about it. Let's go Deep. We all have something to share, KnolShare with Dr. Dave.

Dr. Dave Cornelius:

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Dr. Dave:

So I'm just dying of laughter. So welcome to the KnolShare with Dr. Dave podcast. I am Dr. Dave Cornelius, your host. We're continuing the series, Resilient You, to discover what makes people resilient, to build resilient organization. My guest today is Tricia Broderick, co-author of Lead Without Blame: Building Resilient Learning Teams. Tricia is also an agile trainer coach and advocate for diversity and inclusion. So welcome Tricia. I'm so glad to be able to talk to you.

Tricia:

I'm so glad I finally found time and we could sync our schedules to make this happen. I'm so excited to be here.

Dr. Dave:

Likewise. So I would love to get an elevator pitch so that people could understand who you are and the superpower that you bring to this space.

Tricia:

Oh, elevator pitch. Well, I'm going to change it up and say something slightly different than the standard, "Oh, I was a computer science major", who cares about any of that? I guess my elevator pitch of who I am is the person who is continuing to learn how to lead, but isn't afraid to share the challenges along the ways to say the things that might be hard to say, to make sure that we're constantly growing and learning to be the best in the space where we can help others thrive.

And so, my superpower is to really be as authentic as I can. My colleague often jokes that you get the same Tricia no matter who's in the room, and that probably is true, but I think the other superpower is just being able to acknowledge that I don't always get it right and that I'm learning still and I'm growing still, and the only way you mess up truly as a leader is you stop trying, and so I think that's my elevator pitch is, I want to see leaders create environments that lift people up, and I realize it's hard work.

Dr. Dave:

Sure is. So, in your journey, as you encounter people and coaching and training, how do you define resilient people?

Tricia:

So I mean, you've got your standard resilient definition, ability to respond. If you're doing a whole podcast, you've probably gone through this in a lot of ways. For me, it's not about just being courageous or brave, it's not just being driven or focused and dedicated. For me it's being able to also be adaptive, to be reflective, to be in a space where you can process and think again and realize that part of resiliency is not being perfect, but growing, and evolving and inspecting as things are needed.

And so for me, resiliency and people isn't perfection, it's being able to respond to the chaos, because if nothing else we should all acknowledge at this point is chaos is the norm, not complexity even, and so how do people respond in that chaos? Are they taking time for self care? Are they taking time to challenge themselves? Are they supporting others? And that's, for me, what makes resiliency? Is it perfection or pure grit? A lot of people say just grit of sticking something, it's like, no, sometimes asking for help and not sticking for a minute is resilience in terms of just moving forward and reacting to that, especially the chaos.

Dr. Dave:

Yeah, definitely. Especially in this time, it's even more chaotic than we have seen it for some time. So as you're in this chaos,

Dr. Dave:

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Get your copy of Belonging and Healing, Creating Awesomeness for yourself and others, by Dr. Dave Cornelius on Amazon.com.

 

So hello and welcome to the KnolShare with Dr. Dave podcast. I am Dr. Dave Cornelius, your host. As we continue with our Resiliently You Podcast series, my guest today is Brandon and Nicole. I guess, can't wait to hear what they have to say and what they have to share.

So Brandon, Nicole, provide an elevator pitch about your journeys in life, as a coach and as someone who is helping people to be resilient. I mean, would love to hear from you.

Nicole:

Sure. So I'm Nicole Raines. The professional title is licensed and marriage and family therapist. But what that means is that I work with people with mental health, and relationships in all phases and stages, and wellness. I also do some consulting with organizations, including law firms.

I am a former, now non-practicing, attorney. So being able to bring wellbeing and resilience and just being able to cope with life stress to organizational structures as well. And also happen to be a podcaster. So all of those things boiled right on in together.

Dr. Dave:

Wow. That's nice.

Brandon:

Yeah, she does a lot. And good at it too.

So my name's Brandon Raines. I am a coach. I am an organizational and systems coach. I play a lot in the agile space, where I do a lot of agile coaching as well. So I find myself working pretty much in the IT space, because that's where I got my grounding. I'm a software developer, going way back. I'm starting to realize that it is really way back now.

But I'm finding myself, now, working much more with organizations who want to adopt agility, and not just the frameworks but the mindset of it, the idea of being able to work in a way such that things change, and being able to adapt to that change as quickly as possible. And to do it in a conscious way, such that the workforce feels engaged, customers feel great and joy with the products that they're getting. And that it's somewhere to come to work every day, to feel happy.

So that's what gets me up in the every morning, is to work with organizations who have the intent of doing that, and me doing my little part to help.

Dr. Dave:

Yeah, it says: vote yes for better code.

Brandon:

Yeah.

Dr. Dave:

Yeah. That's where I got started as well, is being a software engineer, and then expanding out to coaching and fun stuff that we do.

Man, I love your background. You have VUCA on there, it's a beautiful term that I like to use a lot. So thank you for sharing that with us.

Brandon:

Thank you. Thank you.

Dr. Dave:

Let's talk about resilience. I mean, let's talk about resilience in the context of leading an organization, or even helping individual transformation. How do you guys define that?

Brandon:

It's funny, we were having this conversation leading up to this. And we often find ourselves having these conversations a whole lot. And Nikki, coming from her perspective in the mental health space, and me in the systems and the organizational space, we see this a lot.

What does it mean to be resilient? I know she schooled me a whole lot on this idea of: resilience comes out of adversity. I think she'll definitely talk about her end of it. But, for me, I think I see adversity a lot of time, particularly around change in organizations.

Dr. Dave:

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Hey, welcome to the KnolShare with Dr. Dave podcast. I am Dr. Dave Cornelius, your host. As we continue with the Resiliently You podcast series, my guest today is Lisa Jones. Lisa is a multi-award winning, science-driven, fact-based therapist, coach, and passionate trainer, who believes that prevention is better than intervention. Lisa works in both the corporate and education sector teaching others the importance of brain health, resilience, stress management, and emotional wellbeing, as well as running a business. Private practice. A busy, I would say, private practice. So, Lisa, welcome to the KnolShare with Dr. Dave podcast. So, do us a favor and provide us with an elevator pitch about your journey as a mental health consultant, psychotherapist, coach, and trainer.

Lisa Jones:

Okay. Well, first of all, thank you so much for having me. I'm really, really excited to be here. And I was thinking to try and keep this brief. I'm terrible for going off on tangents. Growing up, I was always interested in people, and I found I was always that person that people came to advice or want them to be the voice for them if they felt they were unable to speak up about things. So I've always had kind of quite a sense of justice, wanting to help people.

Now, my first love was actually performing arts, but unfortunately I became quite unwell in my teens and kind of struggled with various chronic illnesses. So, knowing that I wasn't able to pursue my musical theater dreams, I decided to do my degree in counseling and psychotherapy. So that's kind of where it all started. And over the years I was able to fully recover from my health issues, just before I was 30, so a little while ago. And that kind of happened really after a lot of work, a lot of investing in various therapies really, and really understanding the brain/mind/body connection.

So that was the key moment for me, where I thought, "There's something here and I really want to help other people with this." So kind of got the passion really even more in wanting to help people understand how we can manage stress, how we can build resilience and do all of those things. So, over the years, I trained in various other modalities, including coaching NLP, which is "neuro-linguistic programming" for people who aren't aware, and applied neuroscience.

So my passion is the brain. That's why I talk a lot about brain health. And as time went on, I was working in my private practice and that was getting busier, but I wanted to help more people. So that's why I set up HeadStrong Training as a vehicle to be able to do that. And as you said in the intro, I'm really passionate about teaching prevention over intervention. So, that's my journey really; and now I work with senior leaders in both business and schools and teach those essential life skills, really, so people feel confident to manage those stressors in life.

Dr. Dave:

That's beautiful. And I noticed that in the introduction, we talked about resilience as one of the things that you try to tease out of people or bring out of individuals.

Lisa Jones:

Yes.

Dr. Dave:

So, how would you define resilience?

Lisa Jones:

So, for me... In fact, I've kind of taken this quote, really. There's a lady called Dr. Carol Penton who's done amazing research in resilience,

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Dr. Dave:

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Hello, and welcome to the KnolShare with Dr. Dave Podcast. This is Dr. Dave Cornelius, your host. We're launching the KnolShare with Dr. Dave Podcast. I would like to take a minute to introduce myself. I am a business executive, organizational and agile couch and trainer partnering with leaders and teams and for-profit startup, nonprofit organizations to deliver a level of awesomeness that meets their needs.

My journey includes working with Fortune 50 to Fortune 500 companies at times and startups. I've helped some of those teams and organizations to deliver more than $1 billion in customer value. As a business organization and agile team coach, I partner with sometimes startups companies to facilitate the commercialization of their ideas and help them bring those things to market.

My work with clients includes delivering in-person and virtual immersive learning experience using Scrum and Kanban and SAFe frameworks, design thinking, lean startup, though do help people with professional speaking, and just professional coaching, publish a doctoral manuscript focused on the value of scrum to organization in support of management and organizational leadership. I'm also done computer science and have an MBA.

One of the key things that I really do a lot of is really contribute to underestimated communities is one of my key passion. I'm a founder for this conference and meetup call Agile for Humanity. We try to support the BIPOC community, creating a voice in product development and the technology field that normally isn't in there.

I've also started the 5 Saturdays, and that's the number 5 Saturdays program. It's a STEAM program that empowers underestimated high school students to pursue additional knowledge and careers in the STEM field. It's always fun working with 13 to 19 year old teaching them about technology and STEM and entrepreneurship, and some of those really core skills that we're going to need in the future of work.

I'm also the author of five books. These include Transforming your Leadership Character, The Lean Thinking & Agility Way, Elastic Minds: What are you Thinking?, Prayers to My Abba Father God, a spiritual book. Also, I just wrapped up Belonging and Healing: Creating Awesomeness for Yourself and Others. And just released Deliver Value: Happy Contributing People, Satisfied Customers & Thriving Business.

In my spare time, I do a monthly podcast and blog. It's called KnolShare with Dr. Dave, and you could find those in some of your popular streaming services, that include Spotify, Audible, Apple Podcast, Google, and many others. I'm a husband, dad, and grandfather.

In this relaunch, we will begin with the Resiliently You Podcast Series, and the Resiliently You Podcast Series will cover several topics, that may include belonging and healing, deliver value, prayers and meditation, generative leadership, and innovation.

COVID 19 has really pressed a stop button on most of our world activities that made us pause for a moment to take notice, sometimes of the harm done to each living being on this planet. If there was a time for us to reimagine who we are and how we can make things better, this is the time. This is the time to do so. If you're feeling shaken by the pandemic experience,