Discover Your Change – Page 3 – Socratic Conversations, Strong Coherent Teams, Clear Direction

Discover Your Direction one Step at a Time
Find direction by identifying & tracking incremental steps forward.
Discover Your Path
You know you better than any expert. Socratic conversations lead to self-discovery.
Discover the Wisdom of Your Teams
Your teams collective wisdom is wiser than the most knowledgeable person in the room.

Where is life taking you?

We all possess the creative ability to reach our personal and professional goals. Sometimes all we need is someone to help us unlock that potential. Coaching unleashes a thought provoking and creative process giving you the ability to maximize your personal and professional potential. Organizationally, coaching unleashes the amazing wisdom of teams. Coaching does this by creating an environment for diversity of opinion, independence, decentralization and aggregation. Socratic conversations lie at the heard of discovery. As an individual or team, you possess all you need to discover your next step.

Enjoy Socratic Conversations

You know your wishes and desires better than any expert. Engage in Socratic conversations with your coach. lead to self-discovery.

Unleash the Creativity of your Teams

Teams possess all the wisdom needed to discover how to work together in a competitive, diverse and complex world.

Discover Your Direction one Step at a Time

Know you're improvement experiments are working by setting clear measurable goals.

What do you see?

Sep 9, 2016LarryScrum Master StuffA3 Root Cause Analysis, Agile Innovation, Agile Scrum, Kaizen, Larry Lawhead, What do you see?

Learning to See Taiichi Ohno is the Japanese industrial engineer who played a major role in pioneering the Toyota Production System. When training a new manager, legend has it he drew a circle on the shop floor and have the manager stand in the circle. He was given the job to “see”. He then walked away.

Can’t Stop Learning!

Sep 2, 2016LarryRandom StuffAgile Innovation, Agile Scrum, Kaizen, Larry Lawhead, product owner, Scrum Master

Passionate Learner I am hooked on learning. An explanation that finally clicked, came while taking the Gallup Strengths survey. If you’ve not taken it, do so. The easiest way is to read their book Strengths Finder 2.0. The book gives an explanation of the Gallup approach to building on your strengths and, as would be expected, gives a link

New Scrum Guide – Emphasis on Values

Aug 28, 2016LarryProduct Owner Stuff, Scrum Master StuffAgile Scrum, Jeff Sutherland, Kaizen, Ken Schwaber, Larry Lawhead, Scrum Guide, Scrum Values

A Classic Apple Move On July 6th the creators of the Scrum Framework (Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber) discussed their highly anticipated update. Even though the move was due to popular demand, their emphasis on Scrum Values hit me more like a surprise Apple innovation. I was not expecting it, but ended up with something I can really use.

Battleground “Innovation”

Jul 17, 2016LarryGood Books & Papers, Recent Posts, Scrum Master StuffAgile Scrum, Innovation, Kaizen, Larry Lawhead, learning from failure

I read an interesting article this week from the Deutsche Welle. The central theme was China’s goal to be the world’s top innovator by 2030. By 2049 China also intends to lead the world in science and technology; just in time for the 100th anniversary of the People’s Republic. Innovation is becoming the new battle