by Kiron Bondale | Jul 4, 2021 | Facilitating Organization Change, management failure, personal development, Psychological Safety, team building
Earlier this week, Amy Edmondson posted a quote on LinkedIn which really made me think. “A crucial misconception is that psychological safety will naturally occur in any reasonably healthy workplace. In fact, psychologically safe work environments are rare. They...
by Kiron Bondale | Jun 13, 2021 | Agile, organizational change management, personal development
(Thanks to Don for giving me some fodder for this week’s article) I’ve written previously about my three tests for assessing agility: are we delivering value to our stakeholders early and regularly, are we progressively improving quality, and are we helping our...
by Kiron Bondale | Mar 14, 2021 | Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, personal development, project management, Risk Management, team building
The happy path for a project manager is shepherding their project’s delivery from start to finish. Just like raising one’s own child to the point where they have become an independent adult, there is a sense of accomplishment which you only get from having been there...
by Kiron Bondale | Feb 21, 2021 | Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, management failure, personal development, project management, team building
A recent Harvard Business Review article warned of the challenges with using the “feedback sandwich” method. The authors wrote that such feedback might irritate the recipient, cause them to ignore the feedback or confuse them. The authors also stated that positive...
by Kiron Bondale | Jan 3, 2021 | personal development, Uncategorized
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the...
by Kiron Bondale | Dec 20, 2020 | Facilitating Organization Change, management failure, personal development, project management, Psychological Safety, team building
An article published this week on HBR.org indirectly identified another casualty of low psychological safety: future leadership. In the article, the authors highlighted three key reasons why capable people are reluctant to lead. Laziness or inertia did not make the...
