Whether you are using an Agile framework or just want to keep in touch with your team, Founder and CEO of Agility for All, Indra A. Books, walks us through how to have stand ups with value and purpose.

Transparency is essential to us helping an organisation transform. After all, if they had all of the answers, we as coaches or consultants would not be needed. However, there are circumstances where a situation is just not going to end well. The first step in any engagement is ensuring that everyone involved at all levels is clear on what the problem is that needs to be solved. Here are a few scenarios that should give you pause.

Can you go one your next journey without unpacking the baggage from the last one? It's the same when you're readying your organisation for change. To assess the readiness to change, you must first examine what got you to the present, and what that means for you going forward.

A senior at Penn State interviews a new wave of workers entering the workforce, by surveying people between the ages of 18 to 24. Read about the expectations of Gen Z from their workplace, employers, companies, and leaders.

If the team's only personal connections are via online tools, those take the same amount of time and effort as it does to maintain a friendship with people in other countries. Those who make the effort keep the friendship. Those who don’t, lose touch. The same applies to communication in a distributed team.

If you're a leader or coach, you know you need to create a culture in your team where people feel safe enough to speak up. How can you do that? Read this blog post by Agility For All Founder and CEO Indra Books, and find out.

A few weeks ago, I shared some insights into who I am as a person, and how I ended up on this crazy journey called Agile. In general, everyone loved that I shared things about myself that they didn’t know. But there was one constant comment - “I want to know more about the Agile journey.”

As we work with teams as leaders or coaches, it is important to remember that we are all starting our journeys at different places. Sometimes there is a meeting in the middle and sometimes those journeys continue to diverge. As coaches we need to follow our gut and guide the teams.

Teams don’t have to overwork to be productive. It’s actually a bad sign if your team feels the need to put in overtime on a regular basis. Recent experiments show that a reduced work week actually boosts productivity. How can you make that happen for your team? Read this blog post to find out.

Indra Aimee Books was helping teams develop and grow even before the term Agile was coined. Then she found out that what she was doing had a name. Read about her personal journey and how she gained the experience that enables her to lead the team at Agility For All.