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Connecting the Dots on Agile, Org Culture, Personal Growth & Temenos

A friend of mine asked me what is going on with all this touchy-feely people and personal growth stuff – “What’s it got to do with Agile?” My answer: everything! So this post ties together: Agile, High-Performance Culture with People skills and Temenos Workshop among others. Here is my current roadmap of focus areas.

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Temenos Container for Growing Relationships

Temenos: Containers for Growing Relationships

The Temenos container provides a powerful mental model for understanding and improving relationships with others. Too often we do not consider the larger context of the situations we are in.

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Temenos – A Workshop for Healing, Connection and Relational Flow

(Joint post with Olaf Lewitz) What is Temenos? Temenos is also the name of a special kind of experiential laboratory (usually delivered as a weekend lab) that Siraj Sirajuddin has created over many years integrating diverse influences.

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Create Authentic Connections with Influence Maps

(Joint post with Olaf Lewitz – Temenos Series) In the course of our lives, we all encounter events that shape us, allow us to change and grow, that have made us who we are.

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Anatomy of Peace – A Model for Communication

The Anatomy of Peace is an insightful book about how our default thinking processes lead us to conflict. It reveals a path towards peace.

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Personal Transformation is the Heart of Organizational Transformation

In a recent post I talked about the nature of transformation as personal activity and the need for leaders to go first. But, how do we as change artists and leaders go first?

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Lululemon, Example of Breakthrough Organizational Culture

Lululemon – A Stellar Example of Break-Through Organizational Culture

Christine Day, the CEO of Lululemon, gave a compelling account at the Toronto Board of Trade of how Lululemon uses culture as a core competitive advantage. It is woven into the fabric of every interaction and decision, not a bunch of meaningless posters on the wall.

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Relationship between Relatedness, Responsibility, and Accountability

Relatedness trumps Responsibility, Accountability

Relatedness is the heart of high-performing teams and organizations. As stated in the Agile Manifesto, focus on “Individuals and Interactions” is essential. How we relate to ourselves and others is central to creating and maintaining effective and valuable systems. There are many mental frames that are used to discuss organizational culture and performance.

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The Power of Vulnerability

Brene Brown had an amazing discovery: The people who have love and belonging believe they are worthy of love and belonging.

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Understand Shame to get to Root-Cause in Your Life

In this post I share a book that has changed my life in deep and profound way: Brene Brown's "I Thought it Was Just Me (but it isn't)".

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Why We Need to Care About Empathy

There is a really great RSA animated video explaining Jeremy Rifkin’s idea of the Empathic Civilization. He argues that we are neurologically wired for human relatedness and empathy through mirror neurons: we are soft-wired for sociability, attachment, affection and companionship – we have a deep drive for belonging.

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Empathy Workshop – Results and Instructions

This past Fall I delivered a training module on Empathy as part of a day long communication and teamwork training. In this post, I will give you step by step instructions on running an empathy workshop as well as share some interesting results from my session.

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Connecting the Dots on Agile, Org Culture, Personal Growth & Temenos

Temenos: Containers for Growing Relationships

Temenos – A Workshop for Healing, Connection and Relational Flow

Create Authentic Connections with Influence Maps

Anatomy of Peace – A Model for Communication

Personal Transformation is the Heart of Organizational Transformation

Lululemon – A Stellar Example of Break-Through Organizational Culture

Relatedness trumps Responsibility, Accountability

The Power of Vulnerability

Understand Shame to get to Root-Cause in Your Life

Why We Need to Care About Empathy

Empathy Workshop – Results and Instructions

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