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Print off and create your own set of Modern Agile principle cards to spark conversations and set goals for improving your Agile practices. You can read about how to use the Agile principle cards to become more agile here.

Why is it that we are still obsessed with the performance of the individual in our modern team-based organisations? Shouldn’t we measure and compare teams instead? Not for the sake of competing, but to learn from each other. Here's a guide for how to facilitate this.

A facilitated process of letting people self-organise into small, cross-functional teams.It is the fastest and most efficient way to form stable teams and is based on a belief that people are at their happiest and most productive if they can choose what they work on and who they work with.

This free Self-Selection pocket guide is a companion to the book “Creating Great Teams - How Self- Selection Lets People Excel” by Sandy Mamoli and David Mole. The pocket guide provides ready-made checklists for preparing and running self-selection events.

This is a new tool to help you prepare specifically for retrospective meetings. Work through the design, people required and identify the right timing with these helpful prompts and structure.

The purpose of the canvas is to allow the team to discover their mismatched expectations interactively in the room, as opposed to going through an interview process.

This is the story of introducing Holacracy at Snapper, a New Zealand tech company, whose CTO gave Sandy a one-line instruction: “I’d like you to make it happen.”

Get on top of the knowledge gaps that can come about when someone leaves the team. This canvas is a great conversation starter right after you hear that someone is about to leave. Find out more about how to use it or download above.

How can we make sure we work to our organisational capacity and don’t try to do too much? How do we make sure we’re working on the important and not just the urgent stuff? In this case study I explore how Portfolio Kanban can help you prioritise, plan and visually track your projects and initiatives.

Over time we have collected a large number of activities for team building, learning and visioning. We have turned each of these activities or talks into a card. Print them out from this template, and plan your liftoff day!

Use this canvas to work out how to choose the best team for you, use failure as fuel for your success, give and receive timely feedback on and off "the field" and never stop learning. Find out more here and download the canvas above.

Use this canvas to gain a shared understanding with your stakeholders and team, about your business opportunity.

Imagine, just for a moment, that I walked into your organisation and asked everyone to down tools for a day and get into teams of their choosing. That I asked everyone to choose who they wanted to work with and what they wanted to work on. Would people organically place themselves into teams that worked? Or would it be chaos?

Negative behaviors have a palpable impact on teams and, in turn, the culture in which that team exists; one person belittling a colleague’s idea will make the recipient think again before making another suggestion. On the other hand, positive behaviours encourage and enable people to participate and thrive. So how do I understand an organisation’s culture?