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INTERVIEW: SEAN WOON – April 2020

In 2020 we are excited to have recently seen our sister business TRIBE launch. Sean Woon is the Managing Director of TRIBE and we sat down with him this week to learn more. Hi Sean and thanks for your time. We are excited to talk with you, at a time that is so […]

12 Ways To Motivate Remote Working Teams

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REMOTE WORKSHOPS – It can be done. Here’s how.

Note: we are not affiliated with any of the tools mentioned below. This is just how we have learned from experience the tools we know and can recommend. There are a lot more out there, so you can take our suggestions or find what works for you. REMOTE LEARNING & WORKSHOPS. – DOING AGILE VS […]

5 important takeaways from Agile transformations outside of software development

Article written by our European office of ADAPTOVATE By Maja Kurzyna For the past 20 years, Agile has transformed profoundly the culture of IT and software development teams. Today, as many companies are completing their digital transformations, Agile practices are spreading internally. Online or mobile sales channels are not a shiny innovation anymore. They […]

How can my team celebrate mistakes (we are big on test and learn, but what happens when we genuinely fail?)

Over 10 different ideas to help your team learn from failure. Firstly, let’s look at why it’s important to celebrate mistakes – it is becoming more accepted that a growth mindset at work leads to better results. We take on feedback and challenge ourselves to always do better. But of course this implies that […]

The Back Story – Qiu Lu

Our Monthly interview with one of the ADAPTOVATE team. Each month we ask one of our team from around the world to answer a few questions. While not in the same league as The Proust Questionnaire – we think it’s a great way to share our stories with you. This month we sat down […]

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7 things your organization can do now to accelerate gender equality in the work place.

Start with this question. – DO YOU NEED TO IMPROVE YOUR WORKPLACE GENDER EQUALITY? You would have had to be living under a rock not to have International Women’s Day stories coming at you for the past week. (ADAPTOVATE included.) That’s a good thing. While ADAPTOVATE support equality every day, we all need a push […]

Six tips to keep your remote working teams engaged and motivated during Coronavirus

Due to CO-VID19 there is an increase in remote working. Here we provide our six recommendations for managing remote working teams in this uncertain time: Align your remote working teams on a goal to give purpose The goal is shared, even if the location is not. When worldwide events are uncertain, simple, clearly […]

What do these women have in common? Diana Nyad, JK Rowling, Katherine Johnson, Yalda Hakim, Joan of Arc, Harriet Tubman

To celebrate INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY on March 8, it’s important to think about the women who have inspired us along the way, and share that inspiration. The trailblazers who have paved the way towards improved equality for women around the world. #eachforequal So we asked some of our ADAPTOVATE team this question: If you could […]

Creative ways to run a retrospective differently

WHAT IS A RETROSPECTIVE? First up – for those for whom Agile Methodology is a somewhat new way of working – a retrospective is one of the ceremonies in Agile. (watch our team discussing ceremonies here – 3 min watch). Retrospectives in Agile methodology are done regularly and kept short. For example they can happen […]

AGILE EXPLAINED: The Role of the STANDUP

What is a Stand-up? Download the poster at our resource centre. It’s not overstating it to say that one of the most fundamental parts of agile is the ‘standup’. Yet, if you have not been exposed to Agile, it’s a mystery. There are still so many large organisations, who have not started to think about […]

8 THEMES TO SUSTAIN THE CHANGE IN NEW WAYS OF WORKING

SUSTAIN THE CHANGE, FOR ONGOING SUCCESS. How do we see business sustaining ‘new ways of working’ over the longer term? Success. Sustained. Two simple words that appear on every email signature of every employee at ADAPTOVATE. It’s our tag line, which is at the absolute core to everything we do and say. Simply put, how […]

INTERVIEW: D. Ray Freeman – February 2020

We are really happy this year to have welcomed to our US head office, D. Ray Freeman as our Project Lead. Ray has worked in the Agile industry for nearly 20 years with clients from Fortune 100 to start-ups. In celebration of black history month, we sat down with Ray to get to know him […]

Boosting Business Value through Organisational Transformation: four key principles.

ADAPTOVATE helps organizations through their transformational change. The business agility required in 2020 to become more productive requires New Ways of Working with specialised training and coaching. Leaders will often want to know, up front, how we will do it. Cut to the chase, so to speak. And while it’s not a cookie cutter approach, […]

The Back Story – Fiona Royall

It’s our monthly interview with one of our ADAPTOVATE team from around the world. While not in the same league as The Proust Questionnaire – we think it’s a great way to share our employee’s own story with you. This month we interview our senior consultant in Melbourne, Fiona Royall. 1. First up – how […]

Why would organizations turn to New Ways of Working in 2020?

Let’s do this excercise. We want to give you five key points why organisations should turn to New Ways of Working in 2020. To help you identify if your organisation is ready – do you finish the sentence: “I want my company to have…” with any of the following…? TALENT EXCELLENCE THE SPEED OF THE […]

This Consulting Life. Six Ways to Re-energise for the New Year.

In our new occasional blog series “THIS CONSULTING LIFE”, we sit down with some of the team across the world at ADAPTOVATE. We ask them some behind the scenes techniques and tips on their consulting practices. If you are a consultant – these articles may help re-affirm or help kickstart new ways of thinking. […]

The Back Story – Slawek Koziol

Each month we interview one of our ADAPTOVATE team from around the world. While not in the same league as The Proust Questionnaire – we think it’s a great way to share our employee’s own story with you. This month we interview our senior consultant in Warsaw, Slawek Koziol. Slawek is based in Poland, however […]

Will MOMENTUM be the word of 2020?

For our final blog of the year, we asked our team what they believe 2020 holds for our industry. By ‘our industry’ – we mean organization’s that are considering using specific methodology to adopt New Ways of Working in order to create transformational effective change. We also asked our team to suggest where ADAPTOVATE could […]

The Back Story – Tan Tiong Yeow

The Inner Story – Technology and Humanity

The Inner Story 2019 series. What’s the Inner Story series? These are the hidden stories from our The Back Story team interviews in 2019. When we went back and looked at all our interviews over the past year we noticed some powerful themes surfacing. So we thought what better way to count down to 2020 […]

The Inner Story – What does success mean to you?

The Inner Story – Previous Roles and What I’ve Learned

Change is constant.

Change is constant. It’s always there. Bill Gates said “We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.” The Greek philosopher, Heraclitus of Ephesus, said – “the only constant in life is change”. […]

8 EMERGING THEMES WE’VE SEEN IN 2019

8 EMERGING THEMES WE’VE SEEN IN 2019 IN AGILE TRANSFORMATION DOWNLOAD OUR FREE PRINTOUT FOR YOUR TEAM WALL – TO START YOUR YEAR OFF RIGHT. With 2019 almost over, we wanted to look at themes we’ve seen emerging over the past year. Specifically when organisations are adopting New Ways of Working. We’ve seen Transformational Change […]

8 Red Flags To Look Out For When Adopting Agile

“The principles of Agile are fairly simple to understand but much more difficult to apply in practice. The simplicity of Agile principles, however, quickly and unpretentiously lay bare all the shortcomings and inefficiencies. Things that lay deeply hidden in complex realities of traditionally managed organizations“ Slawek Koziol, Senior Consultant, ADAPTOVATE. Our teams across the globe […]