Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT

Did you know that over half of Nobel Prize winners were apprenticed by other Nobel laureates? To grow companies and teams to higher performance, you have to take servant leadership to its logical conclusion: intentionally mentoring and growing others. This is a time-tested and practiced art.

As a volunteer life coach and marriage counselor and Organizational Consultant, I’m passionate about this art and would love to share with you how to take your teams to the next level of performance. Let it be known, this is a long, tough road, but the benefits are worth more than their weight in gold. Let’s talk about mentoring and how to get started, the 6 areas of a mentor relationship and 6 tips for mentors.

Presenter:

Peter Saddington owns a successful research and analytics consultancy and has been integral in multi-million dollar Agile Transformation projects with some of the biggest Fortune 500 companies, including Cisco, T-Mobile, Capital One, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Primedia, and Cbeyond. He is a sought-after speaker at many industry events and is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST). He has also received three master’s degrees, one of which is in counseling, and provides life-coaching services in addition to his consultancy.

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I’ve been to a couple AgilePalooza’s in my day. They rock. So get your butt over there if you’re in the Seattle area fo’ sho.

On May 16^th Dave Hussman of DevJam will deliver an agile keynote at AgilePalooza in Seattle. VersionOne has sold out the last few of these events, which bring the agile community together for a jam-packed day of low-cost agile learning in an informal, interactive format. Speakers are generally agile coaches, consultants, and otherwise butt-kickers in their knowledge of agile best practices.

Other guest speakers for this event include Tricia Broderick, Richard Dolman, Kevin Klinemeier, Michael Tardiff and others. Details, complete agenda and registration can be found here: http://agilepalooza.com/seattle2013/.

Stuff people say about AgilePaloozas:

Wow! This was the best Agile conference I’ve ever attended! You have provided an incredible value to attendees. Events like this show why VersionOne is one of the premiere brands in Agile Development. Thank you!” - Vivek M. Chawla

Exceeded my expectations – thank you so much! Great professional speakers, totally relevant topics; 100% applicable to my job.” - Michelle Walker

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Topic: “Growing High Performance Teams through Coaching & Mentoring”

Presenter: Peter Saddington C.S.T

22 April 2013 • 12 PM – 1PM EDT

Abstract
Did you know that over half of Nobel Prize winners were apprenticed by other Nobel laureates? To grow companies and teams to performance you have to take servant leadership to it’s logical conclusion: Intentionally mentoring and growing others. This is a time-tested and practiced art. As a volunteer life coach and marriage counselor and Organizational Consultant, I’m passionate about this art and would love to share with you how to take your teams to the next level of performance. Let it be known, this is a long, tough road, but the benefits are worth more than their weight in gold. Let’s talk about mentoring and how to get started, the 6 areas of a mentor relationship and 6 tips for mentors.

About the Presenter
Peter Saddington co-founded a successful Organizational Design Consultancy and has been integral in multi-million dollar Agile Transformation projects with some of the biggest Fortune 500 companies, including Cisco, T-Mobile, Capital One, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Primedia, and Cbeyond. He is a sought-after speaker at many industry events and is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST). He has also received three master’s degrees, one of which is in counseling, and provides life-coaching services in addition to his consultancy.

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I had the honor of doing a keynote talk for the first annual Agile Dev Practices Berlin 2013 on Behavioral Science, NeuroScience, and Psychology [click for keynote slides].

The picture above is what community looks like. The picture above is what spreading love and appreciation for people looks like.

This is why I love our Agile community. This is why I’ll never leave it. #purejoy

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[At Agile Dev Practices Berlin 2013]

Covering the following for Kanban:

• Virginia Satir’s Change Process Model
• Jurgen Appelo’s Fitness Landscape
• Don Reinertsen Queuing Theory

[SEE MY NOTES on Part 1 of Kanban here]

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[At Agile Dev Practices Berlin 2013]

Principles of Kanban

• Start with what you have
• Agree to pursue incremental evolutionary change
• Respect current situation
• Encourage leadership on all levels

Practices of Kanban

• Visualize 
• Limit WIP
• Manage Flow – Monitor/Flow of reality
• Make policies explicit
• Introduce feedback loops
• Improve collaboratively

[SEE MY NOTES - PART 2 on Kanban here]

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After a long 12 hour [total through Amsterdam] flight I’m finally here! I’ve been looking forward to speaking at Agile Dev Practices Berlin 2013 for almost a year now… super excited about my talk on Behavioral Science for High Performing Teams

The tutorials look amazing!

I like the cartoon. Reminds me of AgileScout

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A packed house for my talk on behavioral science, neuroscience, and psychology!

It’s good to be back in Atlanta. Actually I never left (in spirit). But it’s been almost 2 years since I’ve been able to really get back into the community here. I’ve been so busy traveling (client work)!

This past week I spoke at the Scrum Atlanta Group and boy was it fun. Meeting new people, seeing some old faces that I haven’t seen in a good while and just catching up on the vibes here. Atlanta has a great Agile community, people who are really interested in making big changes and bigger differences in their lives and companies.

I also met more “Agile Coaches” located in the metro Atlanta area than I would have ever guessed! I guess Atlanta is finally attracting good talent to help companies thrive. I’ll be honest, 2 years ago, I could probably only count the number of Agile consultants on one hand in Atlanta. Now there are many more. This is a GOOD thing!

Keep Atlanta alive. Keep hope alive. Build your Scrum business in Atlanta. You’ll have great support from a community that cares about building great companies in Georgia.

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Join over 100 people at the Scrum Meetup Atlanta today (2013.02.27) to learn about Neuroscience, Behavioral Science, and Psychology of High-Performing Teams.

Find more information here: http://www.meetup.com/agile-38/

There has been a ton written about management techniques for creating great teams. Let’s go a bit further, and look into how managers can build great teams not by using a new method or management style, but rather understanding team dynamics and behavioral science and patterns.

* What is a High-Performance Team?
* Self-Organization – Not what you think…
* New Role of Management
* Behavioral Science

[Come for free giveaways, discounts on courses and FOOD! Join in the fun!]

About Peter Saddington

Organizational Consultant and only local Atlanta Certified Scrum Trainer (CST). He has also received three master’s degrees, one of which is in counseling, and provides life-coaching services in addition to his consultancy.

Published author of The Agile Pocket Guide (Wiley 2012)

Find more about Local Certified Scrum Training

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Come join me in Germany on Monday, March 4, 2013, 09:30–17:30!

Optimizing Your Behavioral Dynamics for Personal and Team Success!

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