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Designing scalable learning for the digital age
Organisations are under pressure to be more responsive and agile than ever. When it comes to learning and development, this has meant a shift to digital and blended programmes to build the capabilities necessary for the 21st-century workforce. The benefits of digital...
#IWD2018: Women cannot #pushforprogress alone
At Post*Shift, we are all passionate about the fight for gender equality, and we like to use International Women’s Day each year to shine a light on the issues, reflect on progress and - in true P*S style - share practical ways in which we can all try to influence...
Fostering the conditions for innovation
Social, collaborative innovation, powered by the wisdom of the workforce is like a golden goose - it can produce great value, but only if the conditions are just right. You need the right workforce, motivated and aligned in just the right way. Innovation communities...
The Cadence of Accountability
One of the first changes a team notices when making the move from traditional ways of working to something more agile and flexible, is how often the words accountable, responsible and ownership crop up in team discussions. Often used interchangeably, they soon become...
To get the most from your team, give them purpose
Speed is unarguably a competitive advantage for organisations in the digital age. But this can lead to entrenched, outdated thinking and ways of working. But even the best teams struggle with complacency if the org culture and management practices are not designed to...
Business agile is a system, not a methodology
An increasing number of non-technology projects are set up to run agile (small 'a'). They recognise the futility of trying to replicate pure Agile or Scrum projects and instead need to pick and choose the ways of working and elements that fit their needs (see Lee's...
Agility over agile
In software development, over the past decade or more, agile principles have sometimes been overtaken by strict adherence to agile methods (Scrum, Kanban, estimations, standups, etc) at the expense of flexibility and - ironically - agility. Some challenges in IT...
Digital Age Leaders Need Digital Age Development
Until relatively recently, what it takes to lead an organisation, and how to become a leader had barely changed over the course of the 20th century. An employee wishing to climb the hierarchy simply had to gather enough experience and expertise in their job and they...
Connecting the company to connect the experience
Overcoming functional silos is high on the list of pain points of most organisations. Important to know is all silos lead to detrimental insularity. This causes teams to lose alignment with the wider org, which has lots of negative knock-on effects. Silos...
Turning Noise into Knowledge
The meteoric rise of Slack over the past few years has re-energised the digital workplace field, and now with Microsoft Teams starting to become widely adopted in more traditional enterprises, new opportunities are opening up around this class of tools. Most...
Hiring for curiosity
More so than ever before, we see business models becoming more fluid, having to change to keep up with the dynamics of their market environment. Even large, traditional organisations are looking at structures such as Spotify’s tribe model or Haier’s autonomous...
Adopting Scaling Frameworks
When organisations begin ‘going agile’, one topic that seems to be debated endlessly is which scaling framework to use - there are a fair few plus variations to choose from: SAFe, LeSS, scrum of scrums etc. I’ve worked with organisations to implement and dismantle...