David Summerton Business Consulting
Agile Principles On A Post-it Note Let’s keep things nice and simple – simple is good, it stays in the memory, cannot easily be forgotten, no excuses for not following it, can be publicised in many different forms around the organisation and it fits neatly into a succinct and effective social media message. Brilliant! Organisations …
What Does A Successful Department Or Function Look Like? The Department or Function that you want to manage has got success bottled and is both polishing and refining its current product/service offer, while at the same time developing new products/service offers or new ways of getting things done. Unlocking the secrets that deliver success is …
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The Top Ten Skills EVERY Manager Needs Clear sense of purpose: knowing what my targets are including making them public with my team, issuing individual targets and team targets accordingly. Strong values and personal integrity: always delivering on what I say I will do, having a focus to involve staff in decision making and being …
What Personal Managerial Agility Looks Like Managers with the following Agile skills are highly likely to be successful in the organisations where they work – do you have these skills too? People Agility: managers who know themselves well and understand what makes them function, learning systematically from experience, treat others with respect, treat others constructively …
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The Top 10 Management Skills Every Manager Needs Successful managers work consistently to develop their skills in the following areas: Planning Without a plan, nothing is achieved. As a manager you need to be competent in business planning, project planning, workload planning and contingency planning. Communication Communication covers writing, speaking and listening. You must be …
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What Are Agile Principles And How Can I Use Them? Agile is characterised by the following: Customer collaboration: taking active steps to systematically find out, and meet, customer needs Changing requirements: continually looking for the next “big thing” in the market and not relying o what you are making/the service you are providing now! Cross …
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How To Use Agile In Everyday Management There is never enough time to do it all: even managers that look like they are totally in control of what is going on require discipline and a very clear focus for getting things done. Too much work and not enough time! At the individual levels we must …
