In part 2 of this series on scaling agile ways of working, Pete describes how agile scaling frameworks that may help start an agile journey are limiting more impactful organizational and business agility. Like recipes that help us create more flavorful dishes, agile frameworks like Scrum and Kanban are good starting points for teams to learn to deliver value more effectively.However, the best chefs in the world don't follow recipes, they make recipes. And the best agile organizations in the world are not following agile frameworks, they are making their own.It's time leaders get past the frameworks and become more like a chef of their organization.Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

In part 2 of this series on scaling agile ways of working, Pete describes how agile scaling frameworks that may help start an agile journey are limiting more impactful organizational and business agility.  Like recipes that help us create more flavorful dishes, agile frameworks like Scrum and Kanban are good starting points for teams to learn to deliver value more effectively. However, the best chefs in the world don't follow recipes, they make recipes. And the best agile organizations in the world are not following agile frameworks, they are making their own. It's time leaders get past the frameworks and become more like a chef of their organization.Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

Scaling Agile Part II: Frameworks are Not Enough

Pete Behrens provides a history lesson on scaling agile and the key lessons  challenging all organizations - getting leaders and teams to play the same game.Pete shares some personal success and failure stories in scaling agile from his own journey as well as others, and the secrets to enabling more effective agility at scale.This is part 1 of a 2-part series exploring agile at scale.In part 2, we explore how agile scaling frameworks are not enough.Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

Pete Behrens provides a history lesson on scaling agile and the key lessons  challenging all organizations - getting leaders and teams to play the same game. Pete shares some personal success and failure stories in scaling agile from his own journey as well as others, and the secrets to enabling more effective agility at scale. This is part 1 of a 2-part series exploring agile at scale. In part 2, we explore how agile scaling frameworks are not enough.Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

Scaling Agile Part I: The Games We Play

Luke Hohmann

Luke Hohmann joins Pete to share insights into one of the most under-focused aspects of software development - the profit factor.Luke provides insights for leaders to bring profit into their strategic decision making and the 6 ways to trade value for money.Visit the (Re)Learning Leadership website to learn more about Luke's book with a discount code to purchase.#leadership #agile #productowner #softwareReach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

Luke Hohmann joins Pete to share insights into one of the most under-focused aspects of software development - the profit factor. Luke provides insights for leaders to bring profit into their strategic decision making and the 6 ways to trade value for money. Visit the <a href="https://agileleadershipjourney.com/podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">(Re)Learning Leadership website</a> to learn more about Luke's book with a discount code to purchase. #leadership #agile #productowner #softwareReach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

Is Profit a Dirty Word? with Luke Hohmann

Brad Swanson

What does it take to influence others without the authority of title or position?Pete talks with Brad Swanson who shares his insights on impacting change without "pushing the command button" . The techniques we discuss apply equally to leaders who do not have authority and those who do but wish to avoid using it.  Brad Swanson is an organizational systems coach and Agile Leadership Journey Guide based in Denver, Colorado.Explore more about this episode on the Agile Leadership Journey (Re)Learning Leadership Podcast Website.Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

What does it take to influence others without the authority of title or position? Pete talks with Brad Swanson who shares his insights on impacting change without "pushing the command button" . The techniques we discuss apply equally to leaders who do not have authority and those who do but wish to avoid using it.  Brad Swanson is an organizational systems coach and Agile Leadership Journey Guide based in Denver, Colorado. Explore more about this episode on the Agile Leadership Journey <a href="https://www.agileleadershipjourney.com/podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">(Re)Learning Leadership Podcast Website</a>.Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

Influence without Authority with Brad Swanson

Can being too good be bad? Welcome to the Perfection Trap, where seeking to be better may not be in your best interest. Rashmi Fernandes, Agile Leadership Journey Guide and Leadership Coach shares the difference between seeking improvement and striving for perfection and why you should know the difference.Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

Can being too good be bad? Welcome to the Perfection Trap, where seeking to be better may not be in your best interest.  Rashmi Fernandes, Agile Leadership Journey Guide and Leadership Coach shares the difference between seeking improvement and striving for perfection and why you should know the difference.Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

The Perfection Trap with Rashmi Fernandes

Pete shares what is likely the most important and least understood aspect of leadership - presence. What is it? How does a leader activate it?Pete goes back to the basics to provide a clear definition of leadership presence and through story share how leaders can improve their presence.Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

Pete shares what is likely the most important and least understood aspect of leadership - presence. What is it? How does a leader activate it? Pete goes back to the basics to provide a clear definition of leadership presence and through story share how leaders can improve their presence. Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

Leadership Presence

Professional athletes and artists practice more than they perform to achieve and maintain their peak performance. Licensed professionals like doctors, nurses, pilots, lawyers and teachers practice *alot* to even be granted their license, and their tested. But what about leaders?Unfortunately leaders are not required to practice to either achieve their title nor to achieve peak performance. Why is that?Pete explores the concept and the importance of practice for leaders and shares the stage with a few leaders and guides who share the value they've received from practice.Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

Professional athletes and artists practice more than they perform to achieve and maintain their peak performance. Licensed professionals like doctors, nurses, pilots, lawyers and teachers practice *alot* to even be granted their license, and their tested. But what about leaders? Unfortunately leaders are not required to practice to either achieve their title nor to achieve peak performance. Why is that? Pete explores the concept and the importance of practice for leaders and shares the stage with a few leaders and guides who share the value they've received from practice.Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

The Value of Practice

Pete explores the concept of leadership power and how to improve leadership effectiveness through balancing it.(Re)Learning Leadership Podcast Website contains details, transcript and more.Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

Pete explores the concept of leadership power and how to improve leadership effectiveness through balancing it. (Re)Learning Leadership Podcast Website contains details, transcript and more.Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

Leadership Power

What is self-leadership and why is it so important to you as a leader?Pete speaks with Nick Jonsson, the co-founder and Managing Director of one of Asia's premiere networking organizations, Executives' Global Network (EGN) Singapore, Malaysia &amp; Indonesia about the importance of leading yourself before leading others.(Re)Learning Leadership Website Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

What is self-leadership and why is it so important to you as a leader? Pete speaks with Nick Jonsson, the co-founder and Managing Director of one of Asia's premiere networking organizations, Executives' Global Network (EGN) Singapore, Malaysia &amp; Indonesia about the importance of leading yourself before leading others. <a href="https://www.agileleadershipjourney.com/podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">(Re)Learning Leadership Website</a> Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

Lead Yourself First with Nick Jonsson

Exactly one year following two of the most significant personal life events, Pete is back with another personal story, this time with the passing of his father.In this episode Pete celebrates his father's life and the influence it had on Pete as a person, husband, father and leader. He also explores the challenge in choosing for others once they lose the capacity to do so on their own.Related Episodes:A Time to Decide Part I: The End of Life - shares the story of his mother's fight with cancer and her final choice to end her life. A Time to Decide Part II: The Marshall Fire - shares the story of the most catastrophic wildfire in Colorado's history destroying over 1,000 homes and literally coming up to the doorstep of Pete's home. Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

Exactly one year following two of the most significant personal life events, Pete is back with another personal story, this time with the passing of his father. In this episode Pete celebrates his father's life and the influence it had on Pete as a person, husband, father and leader. He also explores the challenge in choosing for others once they lose the capacity to do so on their own. Related Episodes:<ol><li><a href="https://www.agileleadershipjourney.com/podcast/relearning-leadership-episode-20-a-time-to-decide-part-1-in-honor-of-ruth-behrens" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Time to Decide Part I: The End of Life</a> - shares the story of his mother's fight with cancer and her final choice to end her life. </li><li><a href="https://www.agileleadershipjourney.com/podcast/relearning-leadership-episode-21-a-time-to-decide-part-2-the-marshall-fire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Time to Decide Part II: The Marshall Fire</a> - shares the story of the most catastrophic wildfire in Colorado's history destroying over 1,000 homes and literally coming up to the doorstep of Pete's home. </li></ol>Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

A Time to Decide Part III: Choosing for Others

The current ways of leading are failing to meet the challenges of our disrupted workforces. Today’s leaders have a choice between adaptation or atrophy: are you ready to evolve your mindset and accelerate change within your organization? Join ALJ founder Pete Behrens and other leading experts as they speak freely and deeply about their journeys to grow and improve as leaders. It’s time to pivot: plug-in to relearn leadership. The official podcast from Agile Leadership Journey. For leaders, by leaders.

Pete continues his exploration of the leader's focus in part II of this series, by tapping into one of the most difficult aspects of blending your focus - letting go.However, through this episode, we learn that letting go is only half of the problem, watch and listen to learn the other half.Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

Pete continues his exploration of the leader's focus in part II of this series, by tapping into one of the most difficult aspects of blending your focus - letting go. However, through this episode, we learn that letting go is only half of the problem, watch and listen to learn the other half.Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

What Does a Leader Do? Part II: Letting Go and Grabbing Hold

Pete Behrens exposes the light on a common myth in leadership focus - that leaders need to shift their focus from doing work to leading others to do that work to coaching others to develop their competency in that work.Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

Pete Behrens exposes the light on a common myth in leadership focus - that leaders need to shift their focus from doing work to leading others to do that work to coaching others to develop their competency in that work.Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

What Does a Leader Do? Part I: From Clueless to Clarity

-Why is it so hard to achieve personal improvement goals?In this video, Pete Behrens, founder of the Agile Leadership Journey, walks us through some of the challenges and techniques to overcome them when setting and seeking to accomplish personal improvement goals.A few key links referenced in the video...Brain Statistics Research on setting and achieving goals, as well as debunking some of the myths around the Harvard and Yale "studies" on goal setting found here - https://www.wanderlustworker.com/the-harvard-mba-business-school-study-on-goal-setting/OKR Example taken from the founder of OKRs, Andy Grove and referenced on this website - https://www.whatmatters.com/faqs/okrs-for-fitness-weight-lossSalesforce V2MOM Information with many examples can be found on their education website - https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/manage_the_sfdc_organizational_alignment_v2mom

-Why is it so hard to achieve personal improvement goals? In this video, Pete Behrens, founder of the Agile Leadership Journey, walks us through some of the challenges and techniques to overcome them when setting and seeking to accomplish personal improvement goals. A few key links referenced in the video... Brain Statistics Research on setting and achieving goals, as well as debunking some of the myths around the Harvard and Yale "studies" on goal setting found here - <a href="https://www.wanderlustworker.com/the-harvard-mba-business-school-study-on-goal-setting/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.wanderlustworker.com/the-harvard-mba-business-school-study-on-goal-setting/</a> OKR Example taken from the founder of OKRs, Andy Grove and referenced on this website - <a href="https://www.whatmatters.com/faqs/okrs-for-fitness-weight-loss" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.whatmatters.com/faqs/okrs-for-fitness-weight-loss</a> Salesforce V2MOM Information with many examples can be found on their education website - <a href="https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/manage_the_sfdc_organizational_alignment_v2mom" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/manage_the_sfdc_organizational_alignment_v2mom</a>

Setting and Achieving Personal Goals

You may have heard of a DAO (sound it out, don't spell it out :) but are wondering what it really is, how it works and why you should be more aware of them?Now is your chance to learn with an experienced DAO leader, Josh Forman.Pete and Josh discuss what a DAO is, what benefits it provides, the challenges they face and some real-life examples.Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

You may have heard of a DAO (sound it out, don't spell it out :) but are wondering what it really is, how it works and why you should be more aware of them? Now is your chance to learn with an experienced DAO leader, Josh Forman. Pete and Josh discuss what a DAO is, what benefits it provides, the challenges they face and some real-life examples. Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

What is a DAO? With Josh Forman

Daniel Gagon joins Pete Behrens to help surface a common organizational challenge - doing agile without actually being agile. A phrase used to describe this is "Fake Agile" or "Agile in Name Only".Daniel and Pete briefly lay out the landscape of fake agile, how to spot it, its root causes, how to prevent it, and finally what to do if you are already infected with it.Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

Daniel Gagon joins Pete Behrens to help surface a common organizational challenge - doing agile without actually being agile. A phrase used to describe this is "Fake Agile" or "Agile in Name Only". Daniel and Pete briefly lay out the landscape of fake agile, how to spot it, its root causes, how to prevent it, and finally what to do if you are already infected with it.Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

Fake Agile: Causes and Cures with Daniel Gagnon

Pete builds on the Catalyst Conversation Framework with a focus on differences which quite typically emerge in more pivotal conversations. However, in this episode, we explore two mentors who reshape what difference is, how it evokes an emotional conflict, and how as leaders we can reshape conversations to influence others towards a different outcome.Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

Pete builds on the Catalyst Conversation Framework with a focus on differences which quite typically emerge in more pivotal conversations.  However, in this episode, we explore two mentors who reshape what difference is, how it evokes an emotional conflict, and how as leaders we can reshape conversations to influence others towards a different outcome.Reach out to our team to share your story, share some feedback, and inquire about our programs to help you be more intentional about your leadership growth journey.

How To Make Every Conversation Better Part III: Difference and Influence

Wouldn't we all like a silver bullet to make every conversation and better conversation? Of course. And there is such a thing! In part two of this 3-part series, Pete builds on threats and rewards to provide you a framework to structure virtually all of your conversations. Dance moves to follow to delay and avoid threat, prioritize and give rewards, and indeed to spark insight and understanding.

Wouldn't we all like a silver bullet to make every conversation and better conversation? Of course. And there is such a thing!  In part two of this 3-part series, Pete builds on threats and rewards to provide you a framework to structure virtually all of your conversations. Dance moves to follow to delay and avoid threat, prioritize and give rewards, and indeed to spark insight and understanding.

How To Make Every Conversation Better Part II: A Catalyst Framework

Wouldn't we all like a silver bullet to make every conversation and better conversation? Of course. And there is such a thing! Pete shares two examples of failed conversations he had with his partner Jana and uses those to diagnose and correct how every conversation can be improved. Intrigued? Listen and learn...

Wouldn't we all like a silver bullet to make every conversation and better conversation? Of course. And there is such a thing! Pete shares two examples of failed conversations he had with his partner Jana and uses those to diagnose and correct how every conversation can be improved. Intrigued?  Listen and learn...

How To Make Every Conversation Better Part I: Navigating Threat

Welcome to Season 3!We appreciate your patience as we have taken some time to refactor our podcast.For season 3, Pete shares what we are doing different and why. We hope you join us for the journey. We know it will be educational and hopefully you'll have as much fun listening (or watching) as we have in curating the episodes!Visit the podcast website (now re-hosted on Agile Leadership Journey) for guest profiles, key learning, transcripts and more.Also check out our YouTube Channel for Video episodes.

Welcome to Season 3! We appreciate your patience as we have taken some time to refactor our podcast. For season 3, Pete shares what we are doing different and why. We hope you join us for the journey. We know it will be educational and hopefully you'll have as much fun listening (or watching) as we have in curating the episodes! Visit the <a href="https://www.relearningleadership.show/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast website</a> (now re-hosted on Agile Leadership Journey) for guest profiles, key learning, transcripts and more. Also check out our YouTube Channel for Video episodes.

What's New in Season 3?

Deanna Singh

What is the role of a leader to shape the balance of power?Deanna Singh, author and social entrepreneur, shares the role leaders play in shaping and sharing power along with her experience as a human, mother, coach, leader and catalyst in role modeling this behavior for others.Pete and Deanna discuss how leaders can be more aware and actively use their power to catalyze their goals and the people engaged with them.Visit the (Re)Learning Leadership website for more about our guest, transcript, comments and more.

What is the role of a leader to shape the balance of power?Deanna Singh, author and social entrepreneur, shares the role leaders play in shaping and sharing power along with her experience as a human, mother, coach, leader and catalyst in role modeling this behavior for others. Pete and Deanna discuss how leaders can be more aware and actively use their power to catalyze their goals and the people engaged with them. Visit the (Re)Learning Leadership website for more about our guest, transcript, comments and more.

Power Play with Deanna Singh

(Re)Learning Leadership

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