by Kiron Bondale | Aug 7, 2023 | Agile, Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, management failure, project management, Psychological Safety
I’ve almost finished reading “Gigs, Hustles & Temps” by Jason Foster which is about precarious work and the negative impacts it creates on individuals, their families and society in general. While we might think of precarious work as something limited to Uber...
by Kiron Bondale | Jun 9, 2023 | project management, Psychological Safety, Risk Management, team building
During a presentation I delivered today to members of the PMI Nova Scotia chapter on cultivating psychological safety, one of the attendees asked how would she be able to assess whether the team she was going to join was safe prior to joining. This is a great question...
by Kiron Bondale | Feb 6, 2023 | communications, Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, project management, Psychological Safety
When I first read it, I found that one of the more interesting characters in Tom Clancy’s debut novel, The Hunt for Red October, was the political officer, Ivan Putin. His role is to ensure that the leadership and crew of the nuclear submarine were acting in alignment...
by Kiron Bondale | Jan 9, 2023 | Agile, Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, management failure, project management, Psychological Safety
This week, I participated in an interesting discussion on Mastodon in which the initiator asked for input on ways to frame agility based on the core problems which a team might be trying to solve. This is useful as it can help to answer the “why” behind an approach...
by Kiron Bondale | Nov 25, 2022 | management failure, Psychological Safety
A couple of months ago I wrote an article regarding quiet quitting by project team members. While there are many reasons why someone might choose to physically be present but mentally check out, I felt that there were a limited number of root causes. Similarly, there...
by Kiron Bondale | Aug 21, 2022 | Agile, Facilitating Organization Change, governance, improving project management, project management, Psychological Safety, Risk Management
Thanks to the most recent issue of Tom Geraghty’s weekly Psychological Safety newsletter, I learned about a new model for how we consider safety and risk. He shared Eric Hollnagel’s work on resiliency in which two distinct mindsets were identified: Safety-I and...
