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Why Great Leaders Mentalize and Five Exercises to Help You Do So

The IIL Blog

Five exercises to get you started with mentalization. There are many tools and exercises that enable the development of mentalization. Below, I will walk you through five exercises you can use in your own workplace. Exercise 1: Coaching or supervision. Exercise 2: Collegial sparring. Exercise 3: Check-ins.

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Why Great Leaders Mentalize and Five Exercises to Help You Do So

International Institute for Learning

Five exercises to get you started with mentalization. There are many tools and exercises that enable the development of mentalization. Below, I will walk you through five exercises you can use in your own workplace. Exercise 1: Coaching or supervision. Exercise 2: Collegial sparring. Exercise 3: Check-ins.

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How Trying New Hobbies Made Me More Productive at Work

Teamweek

I didn’t plan for any of those activities to become exercises in getting comfortable with having no expectations of success. A pitch doesn’t have to end up in a new contract for it to still have been a successful exercise. But that’s exactly what ended up happening. The Value of Hobbies.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

Scrum.org

They also note that this is particularly relevant to complex challenges, which is typically the case for the product innovation that happens in Agile teams. 2014 ; Young & Jordan, 2008 ; Russo, 2021 ). Each comes with creative exercises that we developed in our work with Scrum and Agile teams. Conclusion.

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5 Ways to boost your team’s creativity

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Creativity is the cornerstone of innovation. Instead, start with some team exercises to warm up people’s brains and help them realize that they are in a safe space where it’s OK to make suggestions. A different version of this article first appeared on this blog in 2014. Creativity fixes problems.

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Lisa Bodell on Simplification and Innovation

International Institute for Learning

As closing keynote speaker at IIL’s Leadership & Innovation 2019 Online Conference , she delivered a powerful message on how complexity is holding most of us back, and what we can do to get back to the work that really matters. Simplification IS an efficiency exercise, which management LOVES. Log in or register here. Absolutely.

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19 Genius Ways to Become More Creative Today

Planio

In this guide, we’re going to dispel those myths, run you through the exact process that helps promote creative thought, and then cover 21 specific strategies to help you and your team be more creative, innovative, and imaginative on a daily basis. Warm up with some creative confidence exercises. What is creativity exactly?