Category: agile-teams
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Sound Advice: How to Deal with Poor Listeners
Sound Advice: How to Deal with Poor Listeners How to deal with poor listeners? I recently wrote an article about The 7 Deadly Types of Poor Listening and How to Improve Your Active Listening Skills and one reader asked me: That’s all well and good Geoff but I have a colleague/manager who does all of these! How…
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The 7 Deadly Types of Poor Listening and How to Improve Your Active Listening Skills
The 7 Deadly Types of Poor Listening and How to Improve Your Active Listening Skills Have you ever had a conversation with someone who wasn’t really listening to you? They might have interrupted you, finished your sentences, or been preoccupied with something else entirely. Active listening is a crucial skill for effective leadership but poor…
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The 3 C’s of Self Managing Teams
The 3 C’s of Self Managing Teams A lot of my work over the years has, to some degree or other, been related to helping support the growth of self-managing teams. In complex environments as leaders we can’t be expected to tell people what to do; it’s almost certainly out of our area of expertise…
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Pruning to Prosper: Lessons from Chilli Peppers to Product Leaders
Pruning to Prosper: Lessons from Chilli Peppers to Product Leaders I’m far from green-fingered and while I love nature, the last time I really did any gardening was getting on for 40 years ago in my grandparents back garden. They used to grow a lot of their own food and I would regularly plant and…
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