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Get Inspired: 13 Creativity Exercises for Non-Creatives

ProjectManager.com

But when you look online for creativity exercises to help breakthrough those blocks, artists dominate the conversation. With this in mind, I’ve come up with a list of imaginative exercises modified for us office-types. The Exercise : This one is easy; come up with as many ideas as possible — good and bad. Take advantage of this.

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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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7 Neuroplasticity Exercises to Keep Your Mind Sharp

Wrike

This article explores the world of neuroplasticity and the seven exercises you can incorporate into your daily routine to keep your mind sharp and agile. This process, known as synaptic plasticity, plays a crucial role in shaping our brains and enhancing our cognitive abilities.

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What is Value Stream Mapping (VSM)? A Comprehensive Guide to Process Visualization

NimbleWork

Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is a lean management technique for process improvement that has its roots in the manufacturing sector. Value stream mapping can typically be used to improve any process where there are repeatable steps. Process symbols evolved to represent the various stages of a project or task.

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Review People Over Process

Henny Portman

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. Furthermore, neither agile or scrum contemplates how the agile team should be connected to a larger organization and to external partners who will likely have differing development processes and cadences.

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What If Your Team Overrates Its Skills, Capabilities, And Performances?

Scrum.org

In this blog post, we’ll offer our thoughts and ideas on the question: “What if my (Agile/Scrum) team continuously overrates its skills, capabilities, and performances?” Tip 3: Use (Kanban) metrics to bring in more data Kanban is a strategy for optimizing the flow of value through a process that uses a visual, pull-based system.

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How to Get Projects From Strategy

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Then you can do the same exercise with the others. Once you have done this exercise for all the strategic themes, you’ll potentially have a lot of possible projects. Yes, it’s difficult to make the jump from objective to measure in some cases, especially with projects that are more about knowledge work than process improvement.

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