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Aging Fun with Drunk Agile (Video)

Johanna Rothman

In the video, we offered several ideas, mostly about moving to rolling wave and just-in-time planning. You might like these blog posts, where I walked around the idea of aging but didn't explicitly address it: Why Minimize Management Decision Time. Management Debt, Technical Debt, and Decision-Making.

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Mastering the Art of Leading Remote Work Teams

Rick Conlow

Bottom-line, companies with people-first culture led by Servant Leadership principles outperform their competitors. Time Mismanagement: Remote work requires effective time management skills. However, employees may struggle to prioritize tasks and allocate their time efficiently.

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Designing a hybrid workplace? Avoid this mistake.

Brimstone Consulting

Members of the leadership team expressed the same, but were also concerned about declining productivity and engagement. A critical piece of this work was gaining the buy-in of leadership to follow the established guidelines. Video calls. appeared first on Brimstone Consulting LLC. Take the example of a biotech company.

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Beware of the meeting trap: how leaders should manage their time

Brimstone Consulting

In his article, Nohria cautions that leaders need to be intentional about not “popping in” to non-essential meetings, over-inviting subordinates to meetings, and over-relying on video meetings for 1:1. Also critical, not filling “found” time, such as the commute, with meetings. Be intentional with your time.

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Stress and decreased engagement are just two reasons we need to stop scheduling back-to-back meetings

Brimstone Consulting

Microsoft’s Human Factors Lab recently conducted a study in which 14 people took part in video meetings while wearing electroencephalogram (EEG) equipment—a cap to monitor the electrical activity in their brains. One week, the study volunteers participated in four half-hour meetings that were scheduled back-to-back.

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Designing a hybrid workplace? Avoid this mistake.

Brimstone Consulting

Members of the leadership team expressed the same, but were also concerned about declining productivity and engagement. A critical piece of this work was gaining the buy-in of leadership to follow the established guidelines. Video calls. Take the example of a biotech company. IM (Microsoft Teams, Slack, Skype, etc.).