by Mike Edwards | Feb 3, 2015 | Agile, Behaviour, Change, The Leadership Gift
Think about those areas of your life you are a leader. I believe we’re all leaders. As a leader the one thing you can count on is to face change on a daily basis. With change comes uncertainty which if you read my last couple posts you know means being...
by Mike Edwards | Jan 28, 2015 | Agile, People, The Leadership Gift
In my last post Being vulnerable about vulnerability, I shared a lot about how learning to be present with my vulnerability has impacted me. Since then I have been reflecting on what may have led me to struggling so much with being vulnerable, and more importantly...
by Mike Edwards | Jan 21, 2015 | Agile
Over the past year I have been on a journey to find myself. To reconnect with myself. To reconnect with those around me. It’s been a very deep experience and has me exploring things about myself which are not always comfortable to be with. Nearly a year ago I...
by Mike Edwards | Jan 15, 2015 | Agile
In a past job I was tasked with helping teams improve. Long story short … one of the Directors would parachute into a team meeting occasionally and bully people into doing what he believed they should do. His behaviour involved an adversarial tone & body...
by Mike Edwards | Dec 9, 2014 | Agile, Project Management, The Leadership Gift
For more than 10 years of my career I worked hard at being the best Project/Program Manager ever. I could bring a team together and work with them to devise the best plan ever. We would start by defining the scope of our project, then evolve this to our work breakdown...
by Mike Edwards | Nov 28, 2014 | Agile, People, The Leadership Gift
Imagine you are a manager of a department, and you just fired someone who was speaking out against the process they were asked to follow. I’m sure it was justified as they just didn’t seem like a cultural fit to your image of the department. Instead of...
