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Tagged consensus, facilitation, Rally, World Cafe
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Wow! IT leaders from a major retailer in the San Francisco Bay area valued the Creating Results-Based Teams workshop they attended. Here’s their internal survey results. Check the results from the second group. Download a PDF of this presentation. This … Continue reading In one of my recent blog posts, Teamwork Basics: Creating Positive Interdependence in Groups, I offered three strategies you can use to get people feeling and acting like they are in the same boat together: Start shining the spotlight on … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Agile, Coaching, Collaboration, Consulting, Management Training, Teamwork
Tagged Agile, Christopher Avery, consulting, management skills, team collaboration, Teamwork
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Rally Software CEO Tim Miller Endorses Christopher Avery’s Knowledge Team Leadership Workshop Continue reading 4/7/09 update – Sorry, the sale is over and the coupon codes below have been removed. Thousands of gifts were downloaded, viewed, or listened to during this week-long bash. Let’s do it again. It’s my birthday and this year I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Consulting, Recommended Resources, Responsibility
Tagged birthday, Christopher Avery, freedom, Leadership, power, Responsibility Process, sale
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The Chief Happiness Officer writes about The top 5 reasons why most team building events are a waste of time. He says they are overly competitive, often demeaning, and don’t so much build team as build aggression (my word). No … Continue reading Last week in the Southern California mountain resort town of Lake Arrowhead a small group of senior leaders came together to launch their trek toward building a great company. I was honored to support them. And they were thrilled with … Continue reading Published yesterday by The Cutter Consortium. Thanks for their permission to share it with you in it’s entirety. Easy Executive Change by Christopher M. Avery, Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium Want to make change a lot easier on yourself and develop … Continue reading
Posted in Agile, Coaching, Consulting, Leadership, Management Training, Responsibility
Tagged Cutter Consortium
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Thursday night I was the guest of Anders Risling and Lärke Johns for dinner in their home in Stockholm. Anders wrote the first book in the world on knowledge management— öretagetKunskapsf, (“The Knowhow Company” co-authered with Karl-Erik Sveiby, 1986. Awarded … Continue reading
Posted in Consulting, Musings
Tagged Anders Risling, birthday, Knowledge Team Leadership, Provins Fem, Sweden
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Today I was teaching Responsibility Redefined to a wonderful group of consultants at the premier Swedish consulting firm Provins Fem. I mentioned “effective” versus “efficient” and one of the consultants stopped me for a quick language check — as they … Continue reading |