Category: learnings

If business journaling gets hard: celebrate!

Caring for your new habit & developing your journaling practice You have been into business journaling for a while now. Do you feel stuck recently or you’re not really getting into the flow? But: you know the basics. You even have good reasons to journal:  You can help yourself to success, big time, by respecting and […]

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 […]

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 […]

Why juggling improves my health

💡🧠 It took me ages to retry juggling. Meanwhile I enjoy the practise which is perfect also for breaks in remote-work times. Juggling is a perfect mindfulness practise for short off-screen breaks – it can strengthen your mental health & resiliency. Juggling & Mindfulness?! Did you know that juggling also an informal way to practise […]

Back to the sources: Retrospective Basics – Part Three – Stances

In Part One we looked at the my very basics for helpful, effective retrospectives and Part Two was dedicated to variety. In this last part helpful stances are in the spotlight – and as promised, I’ll also share the my secret fuel for Inspect & Adapt. As a retrospective facilitator YOUR inner stance matters. A lot! For someone who is […]

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 […]

Learnings from my first virtual co-working experiment

It all started with a tweet from Deborah Preuss and a chat with a close friend about what the current full-time at-home remote working does to each of us. Deb’s tweet was about how to do virtual co-working and it sounded inspiring to me. So my friend and me agreed on a date with not-so-many […]

Start with Why. Thoughts about Vision, Mission and Strategy…

Here it is: my first short #StayTheFHome article. Yesterday I needed a break from work behind the screen – so I went decluttering some old folders, stuff I wanted to do for a long time. Today I needed a break from remote work again – so I decided to write this article. Dance with what […]