So, you’re on a cross-functional team.

Great.  You’ve got people will different skills and different points of view.  That means conflict is not just likely, it’s inevitable.  Conflict can lead to increased trust and creativity–if you know how to recognize the source, understand your default conflict mode and have strategies to handle the conflict without confrontation.

Don’t let conflicts fester and brew.  Come learn the skills to turn conflict into complementary action.

Sign up now for Secrets of Agile Teamwork or email me if you’d like to learn more.

You’ll also learn how to:

Untangle communications gone awry–before they destroy working relationships

Offer interpersonal feedback to improve working relationships

Make your team leaderful, not leaderless

Recognize the visible and invisible structures that affect teams.

Secrets of Agile Teamwork

June 22-24 in Portland, OR

…in blogging for a while and took a break.

Anders Vesterberg read Behind Closed Doors and has some nice things to say on his blog.

Simple principles

Rothman’s and Derby’s main tenet is that the principles of good management are not that difficult to understand. They discuss for example one-on-ones, portfolio management, feedback, coaching and delegation. The thing is to consistently and reliably perform these practises week after week.

Not that difficult, but not always easy. Systems drive behavior, and it’s not always easy to recognize and counter act the affects when you’re in the thick of it.

I’ll meet Anders in person in January at PSL in Sweden. His review was an awfully nice electronic introduction .