Category: inspirations

How ‘guidance’ and ‘freestyle’ flow together in Business Journaling

Now that you have an idea Where and Why to start, let’s look into the main building blocks I took and adapted from Bullet Journaling (BuJo) for my guided-freestyle approach.  This will help you to get a better understanding of how things work together to your favour of getting more organised and to leverage the power of reflection. This piece covers: […]

How to deliver a kick-ass tech talk and multitask heavily at the same time

Have you been speaking at remote conferences and regularly feel overwhelmed or drained afterwards? You want to deliver a great talk and deal with all the dialogues happening in the live chat at the same time? You can manage expectations about interactivity upfront or even ask the organisers for a remote moderation partner. Then you […]

Where to start and How to keep going

Make success as easy as possible for you Now that you’ve chosen to try out my Bullet Journaling inspired guided-freestyle Business Journaling approach, you already have all the material you need in front of you: “How to actually get going?” might now be the next question on your mind. Common Whys for Journaling There are two main approaches […]

Start Journaling today and risk ditching your limiting beliefs

I have been an avid journaling person for years now. I use my journal for work and beyond. I keep calling this combination Business Journaling as for many folks it still seems unimaginable to use a journal (a paper diary!) in a work context.  It all started with pre-print journaling and for over 4 years I am into a […]

Agile Living – A Story from #AgileShortStories

[this is the English and update version of Agile Living – Eine Kurzgeschichte [DE] from 2019] We are in the year 2011. Constanze, in her early 30s and a computer scientist, hasalready been in her profession for several years. As a software developer, she hasalready seen several agile projects from the inside: Successful implementations withgreat […]

Blog break! – Blog restart?

As y’all might have noticed: I made a small, little blog break. And it (somehow) evolved into a bigger, longer one with each month that passed by. Of course there are a lot of reasons. Reasons like: working, building my own business (mainly focussing on Leadership Coaching first), writing for other publications (e.g. How Journaling […]

Three breaths at work

At #AgileScaleCamp on last Friday I offered a session on your personal (little) gems when it comes to remote working. One of those gems was doing Three Breaths at work! The importance of check-ins Several people at #AgileScaleCamp pointed out the importance of a check-in in meetings. Of course I mean a check-in on invitation […]

Letting your practise change

It’s been more than a year ago when I used my first 6-Minutes diary (read about my experience back then here). Then I discovered BulletJournaling and practised this guided free-style journaling technique for almost a year. For the darker, colder time 🍁🌨️🍂 of this unique pandemic year I recently decided to switch to a bit […]

Back to the sources: Retrospective Basics Part Two – Variety

In Part One we looked at the my very basics for helpful, effective retrospectives. Today we put variety [0] in the spotlight. Listening to Gitte on the TIRF podcast reminded me of things I struggled with in my earlier Scrum Master’s and Agile Coach’s days. Things that I wish I would’ve known way earlier in […]

Back to the sources: Retrospective Basics – Part One – Groundwork

Inspired by a mentoring I did with a friend and by the “This is retrospective facilitaton podcast” episode with Gitte Klitgaard I decided to write this multi-part article on (some) basics for retrospectives: Part One will be this intro and I’ll share the my very basics or the groundwork so to say. Part Two elaborates […]