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How Positive Psychology Can Help Your Organization Positive psychology is providing a new focus on effective ways to ensure that teams exhibit the right behaviors in a group or organizational setting. Closely related to many agile and lean concepts, these emerging practices are helping teams to improve communication, collaborate, and emerge as highly effective groups. Leslie Sachs explains what positive psychology is all about and how to start using these practices in your organization. |
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Management Myth 23: You Can Manage Any Number of People as a Manager In her latest management myth piece, Johanna Rothman writes that your management position, first-line or not, is about building trusting relationships. If you start managing more than nine people, you are in danger of not being able to build those relationships. |
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Operations Teams and Learned Helplessness Leslie Sachs writes how dysfunctional operations teams are often a consequence of a dysfunctional organizational culture that breeds distrust and results in employees who just sit back and allow disasters to occur. If you want your organization to be successful, you need to ensure that you drive out any aspect of learned helplessness and embrace a positive culture that enjoys a can-do attitude! |
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Broadening Your Perspective with Logic-Bubbles Naomi Karten explains how logic-bubbles, those bubbles of perception within which a person is acting, can help you navigate the relationships between your team members. When people have perspectives different from yours, it could be that they’re misinformed, ignorant, or incompetent. But it could also be that their perspectives are as well-founded as your own when considered within their particular logic-bubbles. |
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The Rules of Engagement for Workplace Book Clubs Cindy Yuill explains how workplace book clubs can benefit yourself and your team as software testers and developers. In a workplace book club, members get together to form a connection with others, hear different points of view, debate, learn, and get advice and support from each other. |
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Eat Your Veggies: Using Agile Methods to Focus on Healthy Habits Claire Moss shares with us a personal story on how using agile methods helped her family with managing meals and groceries. By using techniques like a Big Visible board, dinnertime for Moss’s family became less of a chore. Remember, nothing ever goes according to plan, but that's true for any healthy team. |
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Management Myth 22: If You’re Not Typing, You’re Not Working Some managers who have not been technical in a while have forgotten—or may never have known—that software product development is about learning. They may have spent all of their learning time at a keyboard. Especially if they learned alone rather than in teams, they would not know how to assess a team member’s need for alone time after intense team time. |
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Management Myth 21: It’s Always Cheaper to Hire People Where the Wages Are Less Expensive Johanna Rothman bucks conventional wisdom and writes that it's not always cheaper to hire workers from places where the wages are less expensive. When you have fractions of teams in remote places, you could have communication problems and other issues that will increase the cost for every feature. |
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How to Deal with Paranoia in the Workplace One of the most difficult personality types to deal with is the person who always seems mistrustful of others. Sometimes, this lack of trust is justified, but sometimes it is really a manifestation of some dysfunctional personality issue. This article will help you understand this situation and suggest a few ways you can deal with difficult personality types like the paranoid person. |
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To Manage Change, Recognize That It Entails Loss Adjusting to change entails coming to terms with loss. Keep that in mind if you want to ease the challenge people face in coping with change. In this article, Naomi Karten describes someone who never learned this lesson and what he might have done differently. |
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