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by Louise Brace What’s it all about, this life? Psychologists believe that you are what you think and what you do. So the more you repeat something, the more you become that something. An interesting article titled The 3 R’s of Habit Change by Behavioural Psychologist James Clear suggests: Your life today is essentially the sum...
Read moreby Vanessa Shaw Recently we had a Management 3.0 facilitator retreat in Barcelona. The purpose of these retreats is to keep us connected, informed and to develop and maintain relationships within our Management 3.0 facilitator group and also with the Management 3.0 team. And of course we get to work on new projects together. On top...
Read moreby Louise Brace Critique, or criticism, feedback or evaluation? As a team leader you have to be constructive in your approach to giving feedback. Teams and individuals need to appreciate why they are receiving feedback, in a way that makes them take immediate action and without causing too much of an ‘ouch’ factor. And how...
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins Management 3.0 is dedicated to changing the culture of work. One way to do that is by identifying both your core values or “who you are” as a team, as well as the wish values or “who you want to be” as a team. Here is a series of exercises I’ve cobbled together that hopefully can...
Read moreby Jurgen Appelo We practice what we preach. And so it is with the merit money idea (a peer-to-peer bonus system) that we borrowed from Management 3.0 and that we have implemented with Bonus.ly. Yesterday, we had a brief retrospective about the practice. We have been using it for 9 months now. This is what...
Read moreby Louise Brace In a TED Talk, educationalist and author Sir Ken Robinson spoke of the extraordinary capacities that children have for innovation. Growing up we are naturally creative, inquisitive and with exceptional talent, which Sir Ken believes is squandered during our education. By the time we reach adulthood, our creativity has been literally ‘educated out of...
Read moreby Louise Brace So I’ve been working on this remote working team for nine months now and our team is pretty tight. Some of us are more online and virtually engaged than others, but we all get together at least once a week, normally twice and that includes our weekly Kitten Talk, where we drop...
Read moreby Jurgen Appelo Editor’s Note: This blog was written when Management 3.0’s parent company was called Happy Melly One and when we had launched an experimental project called Happy Melly, which focused on happiness at work. Today Happy Melly has been absorbed by Management 3.0, which is part of the Happy Melly Group. No matter...
Read moreby Lisette Sutherland Last week, the Management 3.0 Team had a team retrospective… remotely, of course. We recently changed the way we organize ourselves–from a team of nine that met regularly to splitting into four different crews that met at different times. We did this because we need to scale, and even though we’re a...
Read moreby Louise Brace Editor’s Note: This blog was written when Management 3.0’s parent company was called Happy Melly One and when we had launched an experimental project called Happy Melly, which focused on happiness at work. Today Happy Melly has been absorbed by Management 3.0, which is part of the Happy Melly Group. What does...
Read moreby Jurgen Appelo When you’re a team of just a few people, discussing roles, authorization and delegation is easy. You just show up at a meeting, or on a Slack channel, and ask each other a question: “Can someone take over email enquiries?”“Is it OK if I spend some money on Facebook ads?”“What is the password...
Read moreby Lisette Sutherland Each team has a unique way of communicating. And each team has a particular combination of personality types. Just like an orchestra tunes up before a performance, or an athlete warms up before a practice, tuning a virtual team helps get everyone on the same page. What is a team agreement? Why...
Read moreby Louise Brace Distractions, distractions, distractions. In the 21st century office, we are surrounded by them. Smart phone ringing, email pinging, tweets calling for our attention. For most of us, it’s near impossible to stay focused; we are in what is known as ‘continuous partial attention’. Our mind is rarely focused on one task, or...
Read moreby Louise Brace Last weekend our team and Management 3.0 Facilitators met in Budapest for a meeting of minds. The Management 3.0 Gathering is an annual meetup, where facilitators get to discuss workshop content and materials, and how to take the concept and training forward with new initiatives, exercises and marketing methods. The meeting was...
Read moreby Jurgen Appelo So… my team at Happy Melly came up with a new idea. They organize online dance parties. Every Friday morning, in our virtual team meeting, one person gets to choose a dance song, and then all others are asked to dance to it, for a couple of minutes. I’m not kidding. Where...
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins Happiness is way more than job satisfaction. It’s loving your life and it’s loving others’ lives. Really, it’s everything. Of course, if you are happy in life you will be able to perform better at work and vice versa, and no matter how you feel at work pours over into your external...
Read moreby Louise Brace Editor’s Note: This blog was written when Management 3.0’s parent company was called Happy Melly One and when we had launched an experimental project called Happy Melly, which focused on happiness at work. Today Happy Melly has been absorbed by Management 3.0, which is part of the Happy Melly Group. HOur company...
Read moreby Louise Brace These days we spend so much time striving for perfection, we often overlook the lesser successes, and failures, that should be celebrated. We forget to applaud employees who do their job well and to appreciate the little, everyday triumphs, that make up good practice in our business. Actually it’s more accurate to...
Read moreby Jennifer Riggins Yes, there are some truly awful managers out there. Truth is, many startups I’ve worked with are run by people who wanted to run their own business, but didn’t seem to have any interest in managing a team. And the typical startup owner isn’t the MBA type, so they aren’t even getting...
Read moreby Louise Brace How well do you know your work colleagues? Their hobbies, ambitions or personal background? Forming closer connections with your team members, leads to improved team collaboration. You’ll learn what fires their ambition and keeps them motivated. As a manager, you can sometimes feel disconnected with the pulse of your team. So how...
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