How much of what we do requires courage to ask for what we need? How many times are you asked to make a team agile and the team or leadership is not ready? What stops teams from speaking up about what is upsetting them? Who has the courage in the room to speak up what needs to be said and to do what needs to be done?

Having the courage can be made easier once you have tools and are willing to be vulnerable to take that first step. Teams that can step into this courage are more successful and more productive.

In this talk, Joanne will explore what is needed in our teams and ourselves to bring the elephant onto the table and into the light for all to see. Once we make the elephant visible it can be addressed.

Using a variety of techniques such as team happiness, team agreement, safety checks, assumptions, clean language, retrospectives and self awareness (conscious leadership) you are able to take that step more courageously.

Courage will start with you and can make a difference to our lives and our teams. Do you want to explore more? Join Joanne.

Our industry exploded with tons of newly certified scrum masters. HR folks go through 50+ applicants to find a good scrum master. New Scrum Masters are challenged gaining experience to help them get a job and/or improve their abilities. How can we help new scrum masters become great and how can we help HR find them?

Join Joanne to review new approaches to interviewing scrum masters (any scrum team member) utilizing experientially based questions. Explore how as a community we are able to grow scrum masters and agile coaches internally and externally in our companies.

Let's disrupt the way we do things traditionally - the world is changing faster than our traditions.

Our industry exploded with tons of newly certified scrum masters. HR folks go through 50+ applicants to find a good scrum master. New Scrum Masters are challenged gaining experience to help them get a job and/or improve their abilities. How can we help new scrum masters become great and how can we help HR find them?

Join Joanne to review new approaches to interviewing scrum masters (any scrum team member) utilizing experientially based questions. Explore how as a community we are able to grow scrum masters and agile coaches internally and externally in our companies.

Let's disrupt the way we do things traditionally - the world is changing faster than our traditions.

We’ve all heard that old adage about assumptions and how they make you, and me look. Yet how often do we still take for granted the underlaying perspectives with which we approach our world and our work? In today’s workplace, so much can be left unsaid. And, over time, these unspoken realities we keep inside can lead to breakdowns in team communication and performance.

Uncovering and transmuting assumptions can serve as a powerful doorway into team transparency, trust, and cohesion. Discover tools to how to create spaces for open and vulnerable conversations, a necessary prerequisite for any assumptions work. Then build on that foundation to disrupt insidious assumptions that arise within the team dynamic and transform them to create conscious alignment that bolsters innovation, engagement, and creative problem-solving, particularly in high stress environments.

You’ll gain powerful new tools to bypass reactive and destructive behaviors, engage in new levels of relationship with colleagues, and find new resourcefulness to amplify your productivity and fulfilment.

Join Joanne and Barton as they uncover the cracks that undermine team cohesion, and leverage these assumptions to turn unconsciousness on its head and create powerful alignment at all levels of the workplace.

We’ve all heard that old adage about assumptions and how they make you, and me look. Yet how often do we still take for granted the underlaying perspectives with which we approach our world and our work? In today’s workplace, so much can be left unsaid. And, over time, these unspoken realities we keep inside can lead to breakdowns in team communication and performance.

Uncovering and transmuting assumptions can serve as a powerful doorway into team transparency, trust, and cohesion. Discover tools to how to create spaces for open and vulnerable conversations, a necessary prerequisite for any assumptions work. Then build on that foundation to disrupt insidious assumptions that arise within the team dynamic and transform them to create conscious alignment that bolsters innovation, engagement, and creative problem-solving, particularly in high stress environments.

You’ll gain powerful new tools to bypass reactive and destructive behaviors, engage in new levels of relationship with colleagues, and find new resourcefulness to amplify your productivity and fulfilment.

Join Joanne and Barton as they uncover the cracks that undermine team cohesion, and leverage these assumptions to turn unconsciousness on its head and create powerful alignment at all levels of the workplace.

Are your agile teams struggling with committing to sprint objectives? Are they struggling with conflict? Are they struggling aligning with each other? Is the stress rising when you get close to that deadline? Do they feel they are not at a sustainable pace?

Research has shown that leaders who’s brainwaves are in coherent states not only demonstrate higher productivity, but those with the strongest coherence also entrain the brainwaves of colleagues the same levels.

Laughter is one of the quickest way for individuals, and team to reach coherence. Learn how to harness laughter and play to positively disrupt habitual behavior, boost levels of innovation, engagement, and creative problem-solving, and forge team coherence in the face of high stress.

No experience necessary, just a willingness to step out of the box. Are you ready? Come PLAY!!!!!

Join Joanne and Barton as they provide a slice of their one-day workshop: Laugh to F'in' Freedom to learn how we can utilize laughter to help create high performing teams.

Are your agile teams struggling with committing to sprint objectives? Are they struggling with conflict? Are they struggling aligning with each other? Is the stress rising when you get close to that deadline? Do they feel they are not at a sustainable pace?

Research has shown that leaders who’s brainwaves are in coherent states not only demonstrate higher productivity, but those with the strongest coherence also entrain the brainwaves of colleagues the same levels.

Laughter is one of the quickest way for individuals, and team to reach coherence. Learn how to harness laughter and play to positively disrupt habitual behavior, boost levels of innovation, engagement, and creative problem-solving, and forge team coherence in the face of high stress.

No experience necessary, just a willingness to step out of the box. Are you ready? Come PLAY!!!!!

Join Joanne and Barton as they provide a slice of their one-day workshop: Laugh to F'in' Freedom to learn how we can utilize laughter to help create high performing teams.

Have you been to an open space and remember how the facilitator’s held that space? Open space facilitators create a space that promotes safety, collaboration, empowerment with little direction and very simple laws. We invite you to explore how open space concepts can improve how we lead our teams.

You bring a team together, give them some work, and yet they don't meet the organization's or manager's expectations. They fail to deliver, fail to jell, and fail to perform. Why? Before a team can be high-performing, they must first come together as a team. Come get real world, specific ideas on how to properly kick off a team, setting them up for success for themselves, and the business.

Our industry exploded with tons of newly certified scrum masters. HR folks go through 50+ applicants to find a good scrum master. New Scrum Masters are challenged gaining experience. How can we help new scrum masters become great and how can we help HR find them? Simply, it takes a community to raise new ScrumMasters. Let’s explore how to use communities in and outside of our organization.

Have you been to an open space? Did you remember how the facilitator’s held that space? Truth is, open space facilitators are very similar to servant leaders. Each create a space that promotes safety, collaboration, empowerment with little direction and very simple laws. We invite you to explore how to apply the open space concepts to Servant Leadership and our Agile Teams.

You bring a team together, give them some work, and yet they don't meet the organization's or manager's expectations. They fail to deliver, fail to jell, and fail to perform. Why? Before a team can be high-performing, they must first come together as a team. Come get real world, specific ideas on how to properly kick off a team, setting them up for success for themselves, and the business.

Do you ever think you have your career figured out, you're on the right career path, and suddenly along comes something like Agile and nothing seems right anymore? Yup, we went through that too! We were both excelling as Project/Program Managers, trying to help our companies do things better than ever. That's when we came across Agile, and our journeys have been forever altered. Join us to hear how our quest for helping the organisations we work for took us from a traditional PM role, to change agent, to Agile Coach and way beyond. Your journey can be a conscious choice rather than the series of accidents ours has been, even if your goal is not to become an Agile Coach, there is so many options available to you in your future which can help organizations thrive into a bright future. Hurry ... the world needs you!

So your organisation is shifting to use Agile. The teams get lots of support, and the executives really want product to be delivered faster, better and cheaper. You get why the benefits would be good if only you can figure out how to lead the teams in the right way. You're still getting pressures to deliver from above, and your teams are telling you to leave them alone given their coach is telling them to be self organising. It's called being in the frozen middle layer. Join us and start to learn the new set of leaders arising from this chaos. We will be sharing how Leadership is an important component of a successful Agile Transformation, how your behaviour will impact the outcome, and learn some tactics for leading Agile Teams.