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15Apr
Find Your Career Path: Do The Things That Interest You
The Iconic‘s Head of Agility, Jody Weir, explains how she found her career path. This was filmed at the International Women’s Day 2019 – Women In Agile Afternoon Tea. You can watch t...
12Apr
Balancing Life Priorities? Focus On Your Crystal Balls
When The Iconic‘s Head of Agility, Jody Weir, was asked what her greatest career achievement was, she shared a story about rubber balls and crystal balls. “In our life, there are rubber ba...
24Mar
Put Your Retro Items In Your Backlog
Great! You’re doing retrospectives but don’t leave the action points sitting on a post-it note, put them in your backlog. Watch the below video to find out why. Watch the video…...
19Mar
It’s Not My Job! When Teams Don’t Act Like Teams
When someone in a cross-functional team says “That’s not my job, I just do this thing”, it usually indicates you have a problem with your Sprint Goals. Watch my video below to find o...
16Mar
Advice to my 13-year-old son: Own Your Vulnerability
I’ve recently given some advice for my 13-year-old son who is going through a tough stage at high school at the moment. You can also use this advice in a working environment as well. What I said...
14Mar
What is KANBAN? A video tutorial on what it is and how to use it.
If you’ve ever used business tools, Trello or Jira, then you have used elements of a kanban board. Kanban in its basic form is a visual management board that shows the progress of work. It was d...
10Mar
Watch a 5-day Google Sprint in 20 minutes
How does Google design world-class products? A New York Times bestselling book called Sprint by Jake Knapp, looks at the five day design process Google uses to do just that. ...
08Mar
When chips are better than the party for team moral
To get real momentum on team moral, smaller, more frequent gestures to your teams will be far more successful than one-off, big, grand gestures. The little things make the difference. The big launch p...
06Mar
Do what you can’t…
I love the video from Casey Neistat “Do what you can’t“. It has had a profound impact on me and what I think is possible. While it isn’t a book, it is a pretty great video and ...
04Mar
Lets Taco ‘Bout Employee Recognition
Using HeyTaco! a Slack-app plugin to design an employee recognition program....
01Mar
What to do when things get INTENSE in the workplace
Having family holidays to look forward to is important for mindfulness but being mindful in the workplace is asking others about their lives. In an intense workplace, spending time to have conversatio...
28Feb
Why you should have breakfast with your team
For Feel The Love Friday, I’d like to share a simple bonding experience the EPiC tribe have every week. We have breakfast together. It’s so simple but the benefits are incredible. For the ...
25Feb
Top three ways to run great workshops
The first tip I have for running a great workshop is to make it optional. If you force people to come to your workshop, they’re going to hate it and drag it down. Making it optional means the ri...
25Feb
What is culture-hacking and why should you care?
You can be super-smart at Agile and know everything about taxonomies and scaling but all that knowledge doesn’t always bring people together. There’s a movement called culture-hacking and ...
23Feb
How a high-five can help change people
I don’t think there’s one great technique to get someone to change. There’s lots! You need a kit bag full of them depending on who you are dealing with. One of my top three ways of s...
19Feb
How to transform a dysfunctional team culture
I recently helped turnaround a dysfunctional team and I thought I’d share what steps were taken in a bit of a how-to video. Watch the video…...
23Jan
Storytelling is vital for transformations
If you want to deliver a successful transformation, it isn’t enough to provide a transformation plan and tell people to change! You need to develop another capability that doesn’t come nat...
22Jan
Mindfulness & its relation to Agile
I was asked to talk about mindfulness and its’ relationship (if any) with Agile Delivery, during one of our recent, “Mindfulness Monday” segments. Here is the result: Watch the videoR...
21Jan
How to motivate your team to come to work
People comment about the EPiC team’s constant support for the EPiC brand and have stated that they seem to have all drunk pretty hard from the cool-aid. So, what is it that we do to motivate our tea...
20Jan
Getting Real – an influential read
A few years back I read an e-book by 37 Signals that had a profound influence on my project delivery, management and leadership decision making. Here I talk about it in more detail. Watch the video...
12Dec
Being a bridge, towards psychological safety
There was a group working on a portfolio of financial products that I was engaged to help. Upon exploratory conversations, there were two things that were quite obvious. The head of the group was disa...
11Dec
Make it a GIANT timeline retro
A favourite of mine has been a recent Giant Timeline Retro that I helped put together and run. The visual retro board was 10m by 1.5m, truly a visual treat and impressive spectacle, which in itself cr...