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Remote Fishbowl Lean Coffee
This is a remote session plan, with ready-to-use templates, for a big crowd to discuss together in a structured way without a predefined agenda. It is based on both the Lean Coffee structured agendaless meeting format and the Fishbowl discussion format.
Closing with Conclusions
Here is a quick remote workshop activity plan for closing a session with conclusions. It involves reflecting on insights, puzzles and next steps and sharing them with the whole group.
Remote Retrospective Plan: WARP
Running a remote workshop calls for more up-front planning and prep than face-to-face workshops. That is why I'm sharing this retrospective plan, with templates (Google Jamboard for now, maybe more later), to help you get your retrospective prep done in just a few minutes!
Facilitating Alignment with OKRs
I recently facilitated a session on OKRs in the Agile Finland Coaching Circle. In this post I share the presentation videos from the session as well as my slides.
Remote Team Health Check
Remote Team Health Check is designed for creating shared understanding of how your remote team is coping and what challenges each one of you is facing.
Effective Communication in Distributed Teams
Lot of problems we are facing while working remotely during a time of crisis boil down to communication. Join our online learning circle on effective communication in distributed teams!
My invitation for you
I'd like to invite you to join our upcoming remote training for leaders. I believe it will be worth your while. Both you and the company you work for will learn something that will help you thrive as these uncertain times we are facing continue. A difficult ask
What has changed for me during this crisis
I cannot control the crisis, but I can try to influence my own clarity of purpose and motivation. As an experiment, I tried the Moving Motivators exercise. Here are my findings and reflections on what has changed.
Productive Remote Teams Interactive Webinar: Remote retrospectives
"People are passive", "Clumsy tools", "Lacking human connection"... These are all common challenges agile coaches, ScrumMasters and facilitators face when facilitating retrospectives remotely. At Flowa we have run Remote retrospective for years because we are located in Helsinki and Jyväskylä. We have also experience
Survey: Challenges in working from home during lockdown
Are you working from home during lockdown? Me too. Let's share and collect our challenges for mutual benefit. Maybe that will spark some ways to help each other.