by Kiron Bondale | Aug 30, 2020 | Facilitating Organization Change, personal development, project management, team building
Following a presentation I gave this week on how project managers can cultivate psychological safety within their teams, an attendee asked me to what the relationship is between psychological safety and emotional intelligence (EI). After answering her I felt it was...
by Kiron Bondale | Aug 23, 2020 | improving project management, personal development, project management, team building
The restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in more project managers working remotely. While this keeps everyone safe, it also means that there is a larger supply of project managers available to lead a given project since location is less...
by Kiron Bondale | Aug 9, 2020 | Change Management, communications, Facilitating Organization Change, project management, Risk Management, team building
It would be an understatement to say that project managers have had to deal with a lot of change this year. Projects have had their budgets vastly reduced or been cancelled outright, and remote work has become the norm rather than the exception. We are still far from...
by Kiron Bondale | Jul 26, 2020 | Facilitating Organization Change, improving project management, management failure, project management, Risk Management, team building
Scott Adams does a good job above of illustrating one of the many perils of low levels of psychological safety within a team. Dilbert is trying to raise reasonable doubts with his leader, the Pointy-Haired Boss, but his concerns are met with the threat of losing his...
by Kiron Bondale | Jun 7, 2020 | Agile, Agile Project Management, Facilitating Organization Change, governance, project management, team building
The Disciplined Agile (DA) principles were recently refactored and as part of this refactoring, a principle was added: “Organize Around Products/Services”. While it is just one of the eight principles, this new one aligns very well with lean thinking. It also...
by Kiron Bondale | May 31, 2020 | Agile, management failure, personal development, project management, team building
A few years back, I wrote an article in which I provided some gardening tips to developing good teams. I’m spending more time tending my garden these days so I decided to share a few more lessons for those wishing to cultivate a team building “green thumb”....
