Discover Your Change – Page 7 – 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.

Improper Planning – The Skeleton in the Closet

Jan 27, 2014LarryProduct Owner StuffLarry Lawhead, managing issues, managing problems, managing projects, planning projects, project management, project planning

I had a long talk last week with a guy we will call Joe. He works for a company who has undertaken a large data conversion project. Mid way through that project the sponsors became very concerned about the project’s status. Reports indicate the project is on track, but for some reason uncertainty prevails. They

Book Review – The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business

Jul 23, 2013LarryGood Books & PapersBook Review. Josh Kaufman, business development, entrepreneur, expanding business, solid advise, starting a business, The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business, Worldly Wisdom Ventures LLC

Title – The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business Author – Josh Kaufman Publisher – Worldly Wisdom Ventures LLC Summary – The Personal MBA gives a soup to nuts overview of how to manage and improve businesses. However, before you write this book off as another self-promotion for business consulting, read the first few chapters.

Managing Software Quality Assurance Test Rounds – Part Five (Critical Numbers)

Jul 18, 2013LarryManaging Software Quality Assurance Test Rounds, Quality & Valuecritical numbers, identifying problems, Key Performance Indicators, KPI, Larry Lawhead, managing issues, managing problems, managing software tests, managing test rounds, project risk, project risk assessment, quantifying problems, risk assessment, software test management, software test scenario, Software testing, software testing matrix, software testing types

In his book The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business, the author Josh Kaufman recommends isolating two to five critical indicators, or what he calls Key Performance Indicators (KPI). These numbers should measure throughput and of a given system. The goal in identifying and following these critical numbers is to improve the system under investigation. At

Managing Software Quality Assurance Test Rounds – Part Six (Discovering What Went Wrong)

Jul 18, 2013LarryManaging Software Quality Assurance Test Rounds, Quality & Valuecritical numbers, identifying software process issues, Key Performance Indicators, KPI, Larry Lawhead, managing issues, managing problems, managing software tests, managing test rounds, project risk, project risk assessment, risk assessment, software test management, software test scenario, Software testing, software testing matrix, software testing types

When discovering and resolving issues two attributes are absolutely necessary. These are a calm head and an experimental mindset. Uncertainty is inevitable. The sooner this is accepted, the better you will become at solving problems. Having numbers that expose issues are of little use unless the system under investigation is improved. A strong increase in