Confessions of a Change Agent

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Agile is all about change and continuous improvement, so we are all change agents. But how does organizational change actually happen? It’s rarely as pretty and simple as in the books. In this talk I’ll share some stories and tricks of the trade, as well as common misconceptions and pitfalls. I offer no silver bullets – just some hard-earned experiences that may help you improve as a change agent. Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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Tourism as a catalyst for regional regeneration and climate resilience

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The presentation explores how climate change now urges a fundamental redesign of the. human presence and impact on Earth, and how tourism with its cross-sectorial and global-local impact could be turned from being a growing problem into a solution for regional regeneration and the improvement of local climate resilience. This presentation is somewhat challenging to people in the industry and climate activists alike, and yet, I firmly belief that “we are all crew own spaceship Earth” and we will have to work together to achieve the rapid transition now needed in the time left. Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in […]

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10 Things New Leaders Must Do to Score Big Wins in Their First 10 Weeks

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25 When you transition to a new leadership role in the organization, your first instinct may be to jump in and start changing things immediately—what we at NOBL refer to as “Mighty Mouse Syndrome.” Unfortunately, in this rush to get things done, it’s easy to overlook the most critical challenge for a new leader: winning over your team. In this webinar, we discuss the 10 things you can do to build a relationship with your team members so you’re positioned for success. We’ll also walk through two activities you can apply immediately to start developing and improving those relationships. Johnny’S […]

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Being Human

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– The source and remedy for the high failure rate of Agile implementations – Toyota’s “kaizen” vs “kaikaku” and why the idea of transformation is flawed – Why all culture change starts with the individual – The moment that Michael first got ‘in front of the mirror’ – His 4 A’s Leadership Model and the prospect of radically fast mindset shifts Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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The Agile Mindset Don’t Leave Home Without It

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In this hands-on AWA meetup with Michael Sahota we explored the common pitfalls of leading organizational change and developing leaders around us. By watching this video you will learn how to identify and overcome resistance to increase your influence. And the final part – if you are ready for growth – is to clear away “leadership edges” to inspire leaders around you. Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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How to Influence the Business

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We always talk about the “Build – Measure – Learn” loop of lean product development. But the problem, says David J. Bland, Founder and CEO at Precoil.com, is that we start with “Build”. Why don’t we start with “Learn” instead? Do the customers want it? Could we build it? Should we? If we’re looking to learn about a business, we should be using experiments. David walked us through several methods of testing our assumptions using methods that don’t involve building the product upfront. He challenged us to run experiments, and use our influence as product people to test the business […]

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The Agile Mindset

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We explored the common pitfalls of leading organizational change and developing leaders around us. By watching this video you will learn how to identify and overcome resistance to increase your influence. And the final part – if you are ready for growth – is to clear away “leadership edges” to inspire leaders around you. Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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Overcome Your Fears Of Uncertainty

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In society, we have been given these rules about how to get to follow traditional trajectories of success. We learn these from our parents, our teachers, and others around us doing the same thing. So when you do change your path, it can feel really un-grounding and shaky to take that leap into the unknown. This can fill us with these feelings of fear, panic and anxiety. Then what do we do? We create stories. The worst case scenario stories. “If I start this business and I fail I’ll, be a laughing stock in my community.” “I’ve been a lawyer […]

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Underwear, Clocks, and Companies: How to Change When You Must

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Organizational change is merely individual change carried out at scale. And like the changes we carry out as individuals, organizational change can vary between overwhelming, tedious, and refreshing. In order to understand how we can change our companies, or dare we say, the world, we need to understand change at the human level. Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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How pirates changed the course of history and how you can too

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Purpose, power, mischief. An unexpected new, true and troublesome history of the Golden Age Pirates, here presented as role models for the 21st century, drawn from the research behind ‘Be More Pirate’, the best selling debut book by multi award-winning international social entrepreneur, Sam Conniff Allende. Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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The Efficiency Paradox

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What is efficiency? It is a term that everyone uses, but very few understand. I would argue that 98% of all organizations have an incorrect understanding of what “true” efficiency really is. We tend to over focus on individual and functional performance. We think that efficient “islands” is a good thing. The more we deliver the better! The problem is that research shows the exact opposite! The more we try to squeeze out from the different islands within our organization, the more inefficient the organization will be! So what is the conclusion? Being “busy” is BAD! We call this the […]

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Holacracy: unleash entrepreneurship in your team

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How can the entrepreneurial spirit and culture scale beyond start-up size? Holacracy® offers a radical new answer to this question, in the form of a set of tested and customizable self-management practices. With Holacracy in place, every team member gains the ability to make meaningful decisions and drive change in service of the organization’s purpose. In addition to clarifying agreements and expectations, and increasing transparency, the Holacracy approach promises to fundamentally rewire your organization’s approach to power. Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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Futurework: Managing Complexity With Simplicity

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The keynote will explore the lessons learned from the journey of vanguard companies as they unleash the power of organizational self-management. It’s possible to adopt an organizational model linking mission-critical processes to individual stewardship without the need for traditional management and formal hierarchy. It’s possible to slash the direct and indirect costs of bureaucracy to achieve strategic competitive advantage. It’s possible to manage great complexity with simple principles. Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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The future is in business as commons

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The future is in business as commons. In a world where business models are changing and even the traditional notion of work has lost its fit with curren paradigms, Samantha Slade an innovator and pioneer in organizational and business models will present a new organization mindset focused on compensation as conversation, co-governance and sharing and collaboration. Samantha is driven by the transition to future paradigms. With a background in anthropology, she pioneers novel organizational models and practices. Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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Simplifying complexity

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Ecologist Eric Berlow doesn’t feel overwhelmed when faced with complex systems. He knows that more information can lead to a better, simpler solution. Illustrating the tips and tricks for breaking down big issues, he distills an overwhelming infographic on U.S. strategy in Afghanistan to a few elementary points. Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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Progressive Organizations

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Every year we hear about another novel approach to management: Holacracy, Teal, Sociocracy, and whatnot. Many proponents of these methods offer a view that their approach will become the mainstream, or even standard, way of managing organizations in foreseeable future. Should we embark on a journey of transforming our companies to one of these models? If so, which one is the way to go? Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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Questions from Frankenstein

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When Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, the world lived its first industrial revolution, and the questions that came up in society were two: are we becoming monsters ? Are we losing our identity ? In the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, that of Artificial Intelligence, Paolo Gallo questions other questions: what are we learning ? What choices are we making ? What is our moral compass ? But above all: what are we fighting for ? Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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Being Agile vs Doing Agile

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True Agile implementation offers ‘paradigm shifts’ in organisations, teams and individuals. Most are unable to get past what Arie calls ‘Mechanical Agile’ ( in his view i.e. doing just some rituals, but not shifting paradigms on for example documentation, leadership, reporting, multi disciplined teams and removing silos). Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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How to make it big selling online courses

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Joanne Mauro believes there are no longer any rules about how we work, and as long as you can pay the rent, there’s no reason you can’t do what you want, when you want, where you want and for whom you want. Jo no longer works as a freelancer with clients, and instead now makes a successful living from selling digital downloads and online courses. Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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There’s more to life than being happy

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Our culture is obsessed with happiness, but what if there’s a more fulfilling path? Happiness comes and goes, says writer Emily Esfahani Smith, but having meaning in life – serving something beyond yourself and developing the best within you – gives you something to hold onto. Learn more about the difference between being happy and having meaning as Smith offers four pillars of a meaningful life. Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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Cultures of Innovation

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How does innovation fit into the culture context of an organization? This has been a question many organizations, large and small, have been asking a lot lately. Building a culture of innovation is not easy; it takes a re-thinking of how people within organizations are enabled to do their work and what work is being focused on. While the term “innovation” often gets conflated with technological ingenuity, a culture of innovation is much more complex – involving the winding and twisting dynamics of people, process, infrastructure, and environments. Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK […]

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How To Create A Side Hustle As A Multipassionate Person

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If you’re a multipassionate person, it can feel difficult to decide what side hustle you want to start and which skills to back. You’re likely feeling overwhelmed on where to start because deep down, you know you have so much more to offer as a multifaceted person. But what if you can use your gifts to create a unique way of working and combine them to stand out? What if your previous work experience and skills you’ve accumulated along the way hasn’t been a waste, and can be used in your new path as an entrepreneur? Being able to embrace […]

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The Elephant in the Brain

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We humans are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to get ahead socially, often by devious means. Understanding hidden motives in everyday life can dramatically change how we view social familiar institutions such as education, medicine, politics and religion. Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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The Happiness Trap

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Over the last 5 years we’ve met hundreds, if not thousands, of people that are seeking more from their work and life. Whilst the monthly pay cheque might be feeding their mouths, it’s not feeding their soul. At the same time there are others that have found their calling, but struggle making a living from it. We call this the happiness trap: for many it’s a straight choice between doing good or making money. Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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Rethinking Leadership

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The Agile world seems to have recently discovered the importance of “leadership”. This can be very good news and it can also very bad news. It’s bad news if the so-called “Agile Leadership” is a way to rebrand traditional management models, along with their underlying mindset, so that they could survive in a rather different cultural ecosystem. Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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Leading Through Change

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Underwear, Clocks, and Companies: How to Change When You Must. Bree Groff explored the pitfalls that leaders must overcome during periods of vast organizational change. Bree explains why those at the top of organizations must be instigators of change, and how to work through human responses like resistance and vulnerability. Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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Nomad Dating

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Topic: “Nomad Dating” What are the unique benefits and challenges when dating as a digital nomad? How does one attract the right partner when living such an unconventional, mobile lifestyle? This time our speaker was Jackie Blake a new yorker life coach specializing in dating and relationships and author of “Dating as a Spiritual Adventure: Avoid Red Flags, Rock the Journey and Find the One” Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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Moving Beyond with Next Level Agile

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Today, most Agile teams are trying to achieve predictable, fast delivery. While that’s good, it’s no longer good enough—not if we want to keep up in this highly competitive, rapidly changing world. It’s not just about teams anymore. Next Level Agility is about the ability of entire organizations to quickly adapt to market changes. Together, we reset the bar on how great Agile organizations operate by moving beyond practices like user stories, project plans, stakeholder feedback, continuous integration, and velocity, and towards a new Next Level Agile Manifesto with an emphasis on Discovery over Execution. Learn to identify organizational impediments […]

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The mindset of the business innovator – an artist or a scientist?

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How does a business innovator think? Does he, or she, thinks like a scientist or an artist? This short video explains how the mindset of the business innovator is a combination of both ways of thinking. The business innovator thinks like a scientist when looking for clues about unmet customer needs, and as an artist when inventing new products or services satisfying those needs. Which of the two mindsets comes more natural to you ? Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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Minimum Viable Organisation

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How much structure is enough in the quest for a healthy organisation? Some say all management is waste, is that true? Agile equals flat structures but how flat? Agile methods and teaching promote much flatter organisations, much more focus on the team and less management control or interference. Taking some methods and writing literally we might believe that there is no need for management in agile organisations. Is that true, can it be achieved, should it? Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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Blue Ocean Strategy

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”Let’s innovate!” ”Wait, but why?! ”Are you creating a lot of me-too products?” ”Well, yes.” ”Do you feel that the competition is becoming very tough?” ”That’s right!” ”Does it feel like swimming among red, bloody sharks?” ”Exactly!” ”One way to escape them is to find a new, uncontested place in the ocean – a blue ocean. You need to innovate in order to find such a blue ocean – a new market niche!” Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS) proposes a systematic approach on how to innovate and how to find a new market niche – a blue ocean. BOS focuses on […]

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How to be a high performing distributed team

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As web technologies advance, it’s becoming more and more common for companies to go remote. In the past, communication with remote colleagues has been notoriously bad. The connections were rarely good, we couldn’t see each other, and we often found ourselves around conference room tables hunched over a spider phone yelling “Hey Bob, it’s Lisette. Can you hear me?”. And indeed, in these conditions, working with teams outside the office was undesirable, to say the least. Your virtual team is working ok-ish, but you know things could be better. You would like to know how to work online as if […]

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Untangling the MVP – Accelerating Product-Market Fit

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Greg Cohen, Agile Excellence LLC Founder Greg is a 20-year Product Management veteran with extensive experience in understanding customer needs and collaborating with development to create market-driven products. He is an expert and strong advocate of customer centric design, Agile development, and a pioneer of Lean product management methods. He has worked and consulted to venture start-ups and large companies alike, including Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products, data analytics, and medical diagnostics and devices. Companies include Cisco, Computer Associates, Dell, Experian, ideaLab!, Instill, Kaiser, Mako Surgical, Pandesic, People Fluent, SunTrust, and Walmart.com. Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – […]

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T-Shaped Teams: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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How becoming T-Shaped can cause a Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Gwen Diagram In small teams, it’s common for people to share roles such as Scrum Master / Tester / Dev but in a lot of cases there are conflicting interests. How can a Tester adequately test when as a Scrum Master the highest priority is assisting the team to deliver? This is an experience report from when Gwen was working at a start up with a shared role of Tester, Scrum Master and DevOps and how the role affected her thinking when context switching to different […]

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Stop scaling, start growing an Agile organization

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Strategic advantage lies in being yourself and doing the right things the right way. Those who copy what their competitors are doing, place themselves behind the pack — a sure way of losing. This is why “scaling” agility is misleading at best, and disastrous at worst. When you take an existing model and fit your organization to that, you lose much of what makes you unique and different.Companies small and large must instead learn to grow their own agility for their own advantage. This sounds simple — and it is, when you know what to look for.In this keynote, Andrea […]

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Business Not As Usual – Identifying Innovation with Speed

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Chris Hodge, Product Manager & Innovation Leader, Intuit Intuit will teach their Design for Delight framework and how to apply this design thinking methodology to create innovation and products that deliver real customer benefit. Chris Hodge is best described as passionate and obsessed. Especially when it comes to his customers. Early in Chris’ career he spent five years as a restaurateur and discovered putting your customers’ needs front and center is what leads to real growth and innovation. Chris created experiences and processes to deliver benefit for his customers that are still leading edge in that industry today. Realizing the […]

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How self organization happens and why you can trust it

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Becoming Agile People in organizations has two parts: 1) recovering what is natural about the human condition and 2) developing new ways of working together. One is a kind of unlearning– we unlearn the old social conditioning, and re-connect with our natural human enthusiasm for being together. There is an evolutionary dynamic underlying the complex processes of human relating. This is the basis of self-organization that we can trust. There is also the challenge for us to become more than we have been before. This is part of the adventure and never ending story that emerges as we build trust […]

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Teal shade of Agile by Tobias Mayer

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The term “Teal” to describe the next stage of corporate evolution was proposed by Frederic Laloux in his book, Reinventing Organizations. A Teal organisation is considered an organic, living entity, unlike most corporations today which can best be described as mechanical in both intent and execution. But those of us embedded in the Agile community know that this concept is not new, indeed we have been striving for the release of control and the promotion of nurture for many years now. Is Teal then just a reinvention of the Agile wheel? Yes and No. Laloux offers three simple, yet powerful […]

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How remote work redefines productivity

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When it comes to remote work, our current industry state has strange productivity metrics. The quantity of the office spent hours seems to matter more than the quality of the work done, even though it can lead to a toxic, over-competitive environment or even burnout. Building a healthy work culture without physical proximity is ultimately a trust exercise and here’s something to be said about productivity when you shift focus onto variables like discipline, proactivity, creativity, handling distractions and working without guidance. Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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If you are smart, why aren’t you happy ?

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In this funny talk, Prof Raj reveals the simple secret of a happy life, based on his years of research shared in one of the most popular online courses ever “A life of happiness and fulfilment” By using the audience as a research subject, Raj shows how each one misses an important point when it comes to happiness. Raj Raghunathan (aka Dr “Happy-smarts”) is the Professor of Marketing at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas, Austin. A researcher and author, Raj teaches a very successful course on Happiness around the world and his book “If You’re So Smart, […]

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The Role of Leadership in Driving Company Culture

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Among the many responsibilities of leaders, guiding company culture is arguably one of the most important. Every employee plays a part in this process, yet at the end of the day, leaders are the ones who can make or break culture, causing a ripple effect on employee recruitment, engagement, and performance. You will learn: -The role of leaders and managers in driving company culture -Specific behaviors and techniques that leaders can apply to guide culture -How to incorporate the employee voice into your culture efforts Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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Inside the mind of a young successful entrepreneur

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Sharing her journey which has taken her to where she is today, Arielle will share about how maintaining a positive and balanced attitude results in a sustainable habit, which generates a better environment. Practicing a healthy attitude helps renews the mind to think outside the box. Using Thyme and Caramel as a case study to specifically discuss how she has tackled issues around managing her business by practicing a sustainable-focused attitude, Arielle will show how she Implemented 4 core values that built her sustainable habit: Responsibility, Dedication, Commitment and Discipline. These are keys that sustain her as an entrepreneur. By […]

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How to manage a remote team

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Markus Ahlstrand is a cofounder and Think Chief Architect of acast, a curated platform for podcasts that connect listeners, podcast creators, and advertisers in a fully integrated, one-stop shop. Markus will be discussing how he tries to get the most out of remote work, which processes and tools can be used to boost the advantages of remote working, and how do you keep everyone on the page. Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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Civitanova Marche – Costa Adriatica

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IL PORTO DI CIVITANOVA MARCHE / THE PORT OF CIVITANOVA MARCHE (CENTRAL ADRIATIC COAST). Civitanova Marche, comune di 40519 abitanti, provincia di Macerata, Marche, Italia. Gli insediamenti preistorici scoperti dagli archeologi dimostrano che l’uomo abitava l’area geografica occupata attualmente da Civitanova Marche fin dal periodo Paleolitico. Dalla seconda metà del VI secolo a.C. i greci utilizzarono il mare Adriatico per i loro commerci e la foce del fiume Chienti (Kleos in greco, il glorioso) venne utilizzata dalle loro navi come approdo. Cluana, che è il nome più antico di Civitanova Marche, venne probabilmente fondata nell’VIII secolo a.C., quindi in epoca […]

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StepUp your team’s output with Kanban

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Agenda for “StepUp your team’s output with Kanban” webinar Why Kanban? Myths about Kanban. Where to start, how to start? What is flow system? Why flow system? What is WIP? how to decide WIP limits? How did WIP Limits help? How to identify request Type and associate it with classes of service? Setting up and visualizing the flow. Johnny’S Cove CoWorking & CoLiving in Civitanova Marche (MC) – Italy BOOK NOW!

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