Chris DaviesJun 3, 20203 minCreating the relationship you wantMost of us, when we stop to think about the state of our relatoinships, consider them as "doing okay." Most of us are content with that. ...
Chris DaviesMay 8, 20201 minBreakups are not inevitable!How long have you been with your current partner? Research indicates that only 1% of couples on a first date are still together after 5 ...
Chris DaviesFeb 27, 20202 minTransforming Education - we can do betterOur education system was designed for a different time. A time when school was about teaching kids to become compliant factory workers or...
Chris DaviesFeb 8, 202011 minThe power to change (and heal) the worldMy journey to becoming the coach I ultimately want to be started in earnest at the beginning of 2018. At that time, I had been consulting...
Chris DaviesFeb 7, 20203 minFear - How to lose a millionThe atmosphere of fear and secrecy, of avoiding blame (as well as senior managers optimistic desire to prove themselves), had literally cost
Chris DaviesJan 27, 20202 minAre you doing your backlog all wrong?The key to a healthy and useful backlog is to make sure every item on it expresses a need
Chris DaviesJan 21, 20201 minIt's not (just) a new "way of working"Define first what 'organisational agility' means to you. Create Purpose for the change Be prepared to change the organisation itself
Chris DaviesJan 10, 20207 minAgile Transformation - a happy fableOnce upon a time, there was a lady named Sarah. Sarah was a successful senior manager at FinCo who was put in charge of developing and de...
Chris DaviesJan 9, 20205 minAgile transformation - a sad fableOnce upon a time there was a man named Bill. Bill was a successful senior manager who was now in charge of a very large department and ma...
Chris DaviesDec 11, 20192 minA man with a planOnce upon a time, a man made a plan. A plan for his life. He made the plan when he first left home to go to university. He made the plan ...
Chris DaviesNov 13, 20196 min10 signs your team is not set up for successSuccessful teams are essential for organisational success. No significant outcome is achieved by one person alone these days. All change ...
Chris DaviesNov 8, 20192 minDo you have effective team conversations?In any business team or working group, conversations happen daily. Some of these - those conducted at the coffee machine, kitchen or wate...
Chris DaviesNov 2, 20194 minAutonomy requires three different types of AlignmentIt would be naive for a leader to simply grant more autonomy, without giving thought to the conditions under which autonomy is granted
Chris DaviesNov 1, 20192 minSimplicity - the least understood Agile principle “Simplicity — the art of maximising the amount of work not done — is essential” This, you may recognise, is one of the Principles behind ...
Chris DaviesOct 30, 20195 minDealing with an unhappy team leaderOr... how to solve a team problem as a team I was fascinated to read about the captain of Arsenal Football Club apparently reacting angri...
Chris DaviesOct 29, 20194 minThe hidden costs of virtual meetingsI am frankly astonished at the penny-pinching that goes on in the name of cost saving, while completely ignoring these hidden costs.
Chris DaviesOct 25, 20194 minMaximising teamwork in distributed teamsSince the Agile Manifesto first advocated “face-to-face conversations” and “business people and developers… work[ing] together daily”, th...
