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The big ideas, best quotes and top takeaways from The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stainer. You'll learn the seven coaching habit questions that can be used to coach in 10 minutes or less. Essential reading for busy managers who want to build great teams.
Happy Friday,This week's insights include: • Is this the most undervalued leadership skill? 💡 • How to build a reading habit 📚 • A January Retrospective 📈Enjoy!Is this the most undervalued leadership skill? 💡This week I've started building a new online course: "The skills of change: How to adapt in a complex world"As part of this course, I'll be teaching the undervalued but impactful skills that help you thrive in complexity.One of those skills is Sensemaking.Sensemaking refers to how we str
In complex situations, traditional leadership skills are not sufficient. This article explores the power of sensemaking. Sensemaking refers to how we structure the unknown so as to be able to act in it. Putting it into practice this article shares the 8 behaviours to get you started.
Learn the importance of Empowered Product Teams and how to enable them in your organisation. This summary explores the big ideas and actions you can take to make this a reality. This includes the importance of product strategy, coaching and leadership.
Happy Friday,This week's insights include: • Why you shouldn't build Feature Teams • How to overcome your fears • The cure for zoom fatigueEnjoy.Don't Build Feature Teams ⛔️This week I finished Empowered by Marty Cagan.I enjoyed Marty’s very strong views on Product Strategy and Feature Teams:“In most companies, there is no product strategy. Notice I didn't say a bad product strategy—I mean literally no product strategy. The feature teams are simply there to serve the business.”Marty believes tha
For many Product people, success comes from mastery of tools like roadmaps, MVPs, A/B testing and OKRs. Hard skills, critical as they are, just aren’t enough. The secret to success in Product is the way a product person thinks, learns, communicates and adapts.
Naval Ravikant shares insights that can help you succeed in life and work. This summary focuses on how Naval's ideas explore the future of work. You'll learn the important skills to help you build a successful career.
Happy FridayHere are this week's insights to help you, your team and organisation develop better habits.Enjoy!How To Build An Organisations Resilience 💪This week I’ve been listening to the Art of Resilience by Ross Edgley.Ross shares how he became the first person to swim around Great Britain. It took 157 days to swim 1,780-miles. He swam 12 hours a day and ate more than 500 bananas!A key to success was limiting reliance on Adaptation Energy. This is energy used by the body in response to stre
Happy Friday,Here are this week's insights to help you and your organisation improve.Enjoy!1. A book summary:Atomic Habits at WorkThis summary is curated for leaders, coaches and consultants within organisations.Big Ideas include:1. Tiny improvements lead to remarkable results2. Focus less on goals, OKR's and outcomes. Focus more on systems.3. Change who you are by what you do.4. Design the Environment to make change obvious.5. Use social dynamics to make change attractive.6. Enable consiste
This article shares how to apply the ideas from Atomic Habits to Business. You'll learn why the environment is important, the failures of goal setting and how to leverage social dynamics. This summary will enable you to make tiny changes that lead to remarkable results for your organisation.
A curated list of the best coaching books ever written. Learn how to become a better leader, manager and coach. Coaching books are grouped into different levels from foundations to advanced.
Happy New Year Here are this week's insights to help you, your team and organisation develop better habits.Enjoy!1. A book summary:The Great Mental Models by Shane Parrish and Rhiannon Beaubien3 Big Ideas:1. Adopting the right mental models will increase your chances of success in life and work.2. To work with complex problems, your mental models must be continuously upgraded and refined.3. The most successful people in life are those with the fewest blind spots.2. A quote:"Unless it's a He