Leaders have just as much, if not more, influence on creating a culture to beat the competition and stay relevant. Build resilience, think strategically, motivate your teams, and plan for the future.
Author: Laura Re Turner
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We have been named a supplier on Crown Commercial Service’s Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework (Lot 2). Future Focus Coaching & Development has been awarded a place in the Digital Marketplace to provide agile leadership and team coaching.
The results of the latest State of Agile survey are in. The annual report, released on 7th May, is the 13th from the software vendor VersionOne. Over 1,300 people were surveyed, most working as Scrum Masters and internal coaches (34%), development managers (15%), and project or programme managers (11%).
Great leaders seek to understand themselves better, integrate new tools and skills, and listen to feedback. Stanford University psychology professor Carol Dweck calls this attitude of continuous learning a ‘growth mindset’.
Here are some of the best resources around to help you develop the mindset, behaviours and skills to succeed in complex and uncertain environments.
The Executive Summary of the research report ‘Succeeding with Agile: What Makes Agile Transformations Successful?’ Is available now.
Welcome to Part 2 of the series presenting one of the most important findings of the study: when the team understood its organisation’s business strategy, typically by having an engaged Product Owner, the team learned how to prioritise work better and deliver the right products and services.