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How Personal Maps Increase Collaboration & Trust

August 29, 2019

Personal Maps are a great way to explore what parts of work matter most to you and to find common ground with your colleagues.

July 30, 2019

by Marko van Gaans, Management 3.0 Facilitator Effective communication within a team is one of the core building blocks of the Management 3.0 Foundation Workshop’s Develop Competence view and I would argue that it is by far the most important skill set any team should aim to perfect. As we’ve been given more and more...

May 16, 2019

by Diane Brady As we move along with our daily work we focus on getting things done and finishing our deliverables and commitments. One of the ways in which I try to remember celebrating the wins and great things people do is by creating a Kudo Box and printing out Kudo Cards. These cards, which...

March 28, 2019

Management 3.0 currently has more than 400 Facilitators worldwide. Our Facilitators hold workshops and bring Management 3.0 Practices to life. One of those Facilitators, Filipe Pacheco Souza from Brazil , today shares his experiences with our popular Delegation Poker Game. My intrinsic motivators I was studying Management 3.0 theories and practices for two years, together with agile,...

March 14, 2019

by Ralph van Roosmalen Change. Change is easy and difficult. So many books have been written about change, how to change behavior, how to change organizations, how to change people, how to change whatever. And on the other hand, almost everyone has a mobile phone nowadays. That change happened in less than 20 years and...

November 27, 2018

by Pedro Angel Serrano In today’s world, transparency is one of the most important values a company needs to display to be considered as a model of excellence from a cultural point of view. At Keepler we truly believe that transparency must guide our actions, to create a company culture that we are proud of...

September 18, 2018

by Rajesh Bihani It’s easy to talk about enhancing performance, improving efficiency and being a more influential leader. But what does it take to do that on a practical level? At Management 3.0 we don’t like to speak in abstracts, we speak in concretes. We play games to experiment with different approaches and we work...

February 20, 2018

by Jennifer Riggins The Happy Melly One team has tried OKRs three times now. I’m not a fan and this blogpost explains why. Maybe by the end you can explain to me better their value. Or offer me a more logical alternative in a never-ending search to find motivating and transparent goal-setting. What is an...

January 10, 2018

by Mary Walton There’s no doubt that employee satisfaction leads to better performance, maybe even leading to a 12 percent increase in productivity. But that doesn’t mean that measuring employee engagement and happiness at work is simple. After all, satisfaction is far from a science. Employee surveys are essential if you want to run a...

November 1, 2017

by Jennifer Riggins We are taught by our parents and then our teachers to say thank you. So it becomes an automatic thing. But is that a good thing? Nowadays, “thanks” is in our automatic email signatures. We say thanks without even making eye contact with cashiers or even those that hold doors for us....

August 7, 2017

by Dov Tsal Most team activities I know are either competitive, too darn didactic, or have nothing to do with work. This time I’d like to introduce you to a fun team activity that will get them out of their comfort zones, will tap on their creativity, and is bound to get some insights about...

July 6, 2017

by Pedro Angel Serrano BEEVA is a technology and innovation company whose mission is to help companies in their digital transformation and add value as new technologies emerge. We have grown very quickly in the last three years from around 100 people in 2013 to nowadays more than 500. That’s the reason we are working...

April 17, 2017

by Ralph van Roosmalen I started my professional career in 1997. I finished the polytechnic university and started my first job as a software developer. I loved it, talking to customers, analyzing their problems and, in the end, creating software to help them solving their problems. If it were up to me, I would be...

April 10, 2017

by Christof Braun Change is everywhere. Change is accelerating. Change is the new normal. If you don’t change, you get left behind. Nowadays, not changing is like moving backwards. Are you scared yet? Or at least a little worried? Seriously, I believe all of the above statements are actually true, but I understand very well...

April 6, 2017

As much as feedback is at the essence of agile product development, we often fall into the trap of Build-Build-Build and Do-Do-Do and do not seek out customer feedback.

April 5, 2017

by Sarika Kharbanda Thanks to Jurgen Appelo, author of Management 3.0 and Managing for Happiness, I learnt the technique Delegation Board. With Key Decision Areas on the Vertical and the seven levels of delegation on the horizontal axis, to me it serves as a visible, transparent matrix structure agreement between people. I’ve now used it...

April 3, 2017

by Loïc Leofold My dear friends, we are together today in honor and to celebrate the memory of Loïc, who left us too young due to a crisis of meeting. Such could have been my funeral oration. I’d learned as a quality manager that a meeting should be prepared. I used the 7Ps Framework designed by...

February 28, 2017

by Marjoke Franken I have been working on teams or with teams ever since I was 13 years old and started volunteering at school and the local coffee bar (real coffee, not that other stuff that has little to do with coffee). I’m not going to say that ever since that age I realized the...

February 8, 2017

by Stefan Nüsperling “The primary focus of any manager should be to energize people,” emphasizes Jurgen Appelo in his book Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders. One way to energize people is to stimulate interaction between individuals at the team level. But it is not always easy to have smooth communication within a...

February 3, 2017

by Jennifer Riggins At Management 3.0, we’ve already shared how we’ve identified and developed our team’s three core values: Dare to be bold. Always be kind. Make it creative. You could argue that there are certain core values that all companies share or at least should share. But businesses are made of people and people are...

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How Personal Maps Increase Collaboration & Trust

August 29, 2019

Improving Team Communication: The Power of Face-to-Face Interactions

July 30, 2019

Kudos Anyone?

May 16, 2019

Applying Delegation Poker to mentor a new Scrum Master

March 28, 2019

Gamifying Change: The Change Management Game

March 14, 2019

An Open Salary Formula to become a transparent company

November 27, 2018

How to develop competencies that enhance individual and organizational performance

September 18, 2018

Do key results lead to objectives? My not-so love affair with OKRs

February 20, 2018

How to Create an Optimal Employee Engagement Survey That Gets Results

January 10, 2018

An Attitude of Gratitude: Say #ThankYou this November (and always!)

November 1, 2017

Try this iterative drawing team activity

August 7, 2017

BEEVA’s experience with positive feedback, kudos and Merit Money

July 6, 2017

How experiments made me a Management 3.0 facilitator

April 17, 2017

A fearless change management game

April 10, 2017

The Kata Practice for simpler, leaner products through scientific thinking

April 6, 2017

How to make the Delegation Board work for your team

April 5, 2017

Stop inviting. Sell your meeting!

April 3, 2017

360Stories: How can we build trust in the workplace?

February 28, 2017

Team engagement with the Niko-Niko Calendar

February 8, 2017

Culture Books: How Perkbox, LinkedIn and Facebook each emphasize core values

February 3, 2017