LSA Global

MARCH 6, 2023

98% Job Relevance 100% Satisfaction 146% Knowledge Gain 92% Net Promoter Score As part of the upcoming performance management process , this fast-paced global technology client wanted to help employees to fully committing to a personal career growth strategy. Learn more about getting aligned.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 3, 2019

At the Influential Agile Leader workshop earlier this year, I led a session about scaling and how you might think about it. My experience is that when people use frameworks for larger efforts, they experience these unexpected side effects: The framework actions often require more manager-type people to control the actions of others.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 15, 2018

Part of what makes an agile transformation difficult is the cultural change required. That’s what makes an agile transformation a journey. A client said to me, “I want the agile. The agile is good stuff: faster delivery of smaller stuff that we can get revenue for. ” This manager is not stupid.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 24, 2018

Most managers I meet want to do a good job. They want to know that people can deliver the outcomes the organization needs and the managers want. As their organizations move to agile approaches, these managers have problems: their organization (managers above them) wants to measure them by the old rules which demand control.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2018

I’ve been thinking more about possible measurements in an agile transformation journey. This post will focus on measurements you might see when the culture changes with an agile transformation. We are workshopping what we learned over the past day, week or two weeks (retrospective). Again, do start with your why.

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Strategic Planning and Management Insights

MARCH 6, 2023

McKinsey & Company discovered that data-driven firms are 23 times more likely to acquire customers , six times more likely to retain them, and 19 times more likely to be profitable than their counterparts without a data-driven culture. When it comes to tracking your strategic goals, it's crucial to focus on the data that matters.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 17, 2017

Of these, it makes sense to change the compensation and rewards approach, recruitment and hiring if the organization wants to create an agile culture. It’s possible to create a more agile approach to education and training. committed to more workshops. Agile HR is not about standups or boards.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Introduction to an Agile Transformation series… I’ve seen several agile transformation challenges. Since I want to address those challenges, this is a series of posts about agile transformation. The problems I’m planning to address are: Understanding why agile, why now. You might have another reason.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. During that workshop, the participants all had the same question, “How do we engage our stakeholders? Adam, a product leader, has changed his meetings and workshops. What do they get out of this partnership?

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 19, 2018

Are you looking to help support your team, management, or organization’s agile adoption? Do you feel as if you are part of the formal or informal team leading your agile transformation? You need what Gil Broza and I teach and facilitate at the Influential Agile Leader Workshop.

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Business Consulting Agency

APRIL 18, 2024

Enhanced scalability, agility, and adaptability to market changes. Digital Transformation and Innovation Technology consultants play a crucial role in driving digital transformation initiatives and fostering a culture of innovation within organizations. Effective change management and stakeholder engagement.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 1, 2024

As part of their filtering process, potential clients/hiring managers want to see how you work. While managers think they will get useful results, too often, they don't. And because the hiring manager is only thinking of their time, they don't consider offering you any compensation for your time. That's fine.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 22, 2023

Since I also write for project, program, and portfolio managers, you might not choose to read this post. Writers often need a different approach to manage everyone's expectations. How to Write for Secondary Readers Polly, a program manager, works with her program team to solve a cross-program problem: status reporting.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 23, 2022

She said that as long as teams had sufficient hours of overlap, she didn't care where the managers hired people. However, now the managers have trouble reconciling how to offer fair compensation and benefits to all employees. You might have other benefits you're trying to manage across many locations.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 31, 2018

If you're trying to write a proposal for a conference or have an agile story you want to tell, consider framing the story this way: Start with the problems. If you're proposing a new talk or a workshop, consider One Startling Sentence for conference proposals: First sentence: What's the problem? I'm a total sucker for them.

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Epicflow

APRIL 19, 2024

If your company uses other project management tools like Jira, MS Project, or Oracle Primavera, the demo environment will be adjusted accordingly. Assess the software’s ability to meet your organization’s needs, improve resource management processes, and achieve desired outcomes. User training and adoption.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 17, 2020

We've all heard of big organizations where the top management said, “No need to ever be back in the office. For some reason, these managers think we can work remotely and never see each other. See Lessons Learned from Leading Workshops About Geographically Distributed Agile Teams for data from some of my previous workshops.).

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 3, 2021

We discussed the Modern Management Made Easy books among other topics: A little about the origins of agile approaches. See Decide When You Need to Meet, Workshop, or Write to Save Energy and Time.). Why team members don't need to move “up” to management. The manager's role and how teams can work together.

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Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Agility” is the management word of the decade for sure. But to move with agility in a complex organization requires leaders to be confident that important decisions are being made at the right level and location across the enterprise. HR leaders are often asked: Where should work be managed in the organization?

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LSA Global

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Here to help you do just that are the top team leader mistakes to avoid at all costs from a recent new manager training workshop: Limiting Input and Dissent Have you noticed how some leaders live in an echo chamber surrounded by people who have their same mindset and opinions? Remember what that felt like?

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Gil Broza and I are thrilled to announce the updated version of our flagship workshop, the Influential Agile Leader. We’re leading the workshop in the Boston area, June 7-8, 2018. If you have these kinds of challenges: Your business can’t “stop” to recreate itself as an agile organization.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

held week-long workshops designed to expose workers at the China and India sites to the U.S.-developed Many of us know this intuitively: best practices are optimized for a particular place and time and don’t necessarily transfer well between cultures. Managing Across Cultures. Leaders from the U.S. Pamela Hinds.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

.” Our solution – one transferable to other organizations pursuing innovation – has been to create an agile network of volunteer ambassadors and coaches throughout the company who have taken collective responsibility for making innovation happen and steering our organizational culture in the right direction.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 24, 2021

In Part 1 and 2 of this series, I wrote about how an agile approach might offer strategic benefits. And because an agile approach changes your culture, I said the agile approach was part of your strategy. So let's ask this question: Can any tool—agile or otherwise—offer you a strategic advantage? (I

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 28, 2022

When we ask participants in our new manager training workshops to list the attributes of great leaders, the most common are: self-awareness, learning agility , communication , and influence. When we assess organizational culture , we find the same thing – employees want more from their leaders.

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Harvard Business

JULY 11, 2017

According to that same VetAdvisor and Syracuse report, the top reasons veterans report for departing their first jobs include lack of career development/advancement, work that lacks meaning, limited professional development opportunities, or unfamiliar work culture. Corporate leaders must become versed in military culture.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 22, 2017

This program gives employees across all disciplines and levels tools to educate them on the company, its culture, products and services, and how they solve its customer’s needs. This gives marketing an opportunity to measure and manage itself in new ways. Bring creativity to measurement. Think like a startup.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 26, 2018

Agile transformations are tough. That’s because wherever you start, the agile transformation creates culture clashes. Often, teams start with agile approaches. Teams discover the agile approach and practices that work for that team. That’s the external part of what we see in an agile transformation.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2016

They manage their uncertainty, take the leap, and start the journey despite being unable to see around the bend. My workshops are designed with an exponential mindset to generate new ways of thinking about marketing, culture and strategy. Grow: Agility and Control. Build: Courage and Patience. But that would be a mistake.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Agile culture is about the ability to change. You need to know why you want to change, but once you know that, agile cultures promote change.). We (as agile teams and organizations) deliver something to get some feedback and learning. You might work for one of these companies and they want to use an agile approach.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

” is one of the questions I see when I work with people going through an agile transformation. Too often, managers measure people as individuals. This measurement question can be the prompt that changes your culture and your system. A simplistic qualitative measure of organizational agility). Lead time trends).

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 30, 2018

One of my clients has many reasons for wanting an agile transformation. They need agile approaches so they can get feedback from customers as they develop the new products. They need to create a mix of new products and services, which means they need to use an agile approach for their projects and their project portfolio.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 24, 2021

Do you or your managers want people to be happy at work? For example, if your manager has not maintained their one-on-ones with you? You might feel stress, a lack of social relationships, worry that your job satisfaction doesn't match what your manager thinks. When I think about changing outcomes, I think about culture change.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 25, 2018

We taught them very simple strategies to build renewal into their lives, and they left our workshops eager to change the way they worked. More recently, we worked with the senior team of a large consumer product company which had been severely disrupted by smaller, more agile online competitors selling their services directly to consumers.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

Twenty-four medical teams from four neonatal intensive care units in Israel were invited to a training workshop designed to improve quality of care. In the Irvine, California, office of law firm Bryan Cave, managing partner Stuart Price and I led employees through an exercise in which they could define collective norms.

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