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The Togetherness of Agile

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Coaching Most Shared

8 Ways to Measure Your Impact as an Agile Coach

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Legacy is planting seeds in a garden you will never see grow. – Hamilton, The Musical For those of us who are practicing Agile coaches, you know the truth in this quote. We are often gifted with a short window of time to be a catalyst for change and create enough of a spark to […]

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In Practice

2015 – A Year in Review

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It is a bit crazy to think we are already in 2016 but before we get too far into the new year here is a quick review of what has been happening at Illustrated Agile in 2015. Thanks to all of the new email subscribers to the blog. It’s been a record year for the […]

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Leadership

5 Questions to Ask Before Hiring or Promoting an Agile Leader

As a leader in an organization one of your many expectations would be to determine when one of your direct reports are ready to be promoted into a leadership position or deciding who should be hired from the outside into an open leadership position reporting to you. When promoting internally, this often means deciding when […]

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Change Agents Culture Organizational Change Transformational Leadership

Help! My Company is Stuck… (Part 2)

In Part 1 of Help! My Company is Stuck, we discussed a few of the stagnating scenarios found when organizations are attempting transformative movement towards greater agility and improved culture. In part 2, we’ll dig into a few of the more challenging situations you may be experiencing. Admittedly, many of these will require a coordinated, herculean, […]

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Transformational Leadership

Fostering the Culture of Agility with Servant Leadership

The phrase “servant leadership” is frequently used when current leadership styles (typically command-and-control) clash with an emerging culture of empowerment and self-organization. “We need our leaders to embody servant leadership” is a comment I recently heard. But what is servant leadership? Do people really know what they are asking for? As Patrick Lencioni states “I’m tired of […]

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Leadership

The Importance of Importance

A friend of mine shared a negative experience he recently had with their boss. I won’t get into details of this specific incident but it sounded like this was one in a string of behaviors in which he was left feeling, in his words, “totally unimportant.” The dictionary says we know something is important when […]

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Transformational Leadership

Agile Leadership Principles

To be truly effective and long-lasting, an Agile transformation must reach every nook and cranny of the organization and this obviously includes leadership.  Organizational leadership includes everyone from front-line managers on up – everyone who has someone reporting to them.  Oftentimes, managers are the last ones to participate in the transformation or they may not […]