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"Flirting" With Your Customers

All over the world, there are classes that teach people how to flirt. A German university even requires their IT engineers take a flirting class—not to attract a partner, but to learn how to interact more effectively in the workplace. While it may[…]

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Intent-Based Leadership

Making Agile work

A simple hack to remove impediments

How do we get things done faster? Simple tools can make the biggest impact on our work environment. Use this impediment busting tool to get over the hurdles in the workplace that keep your team from doing their best work. Watch this simple hack to[…]

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Agile Leadership

Agile's not just a methodology

There is a common misperception in many organizations transforming to Agile ways of working that Agile is yet one more way to do project management.And to make it worse, there are many funny sounding names for the frameworks: Scrum, Kanban and SAF[…]

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Agile leadership & enabling teams

Making Agile work

Balancing Governance and Empowerment

Are your Agile teams and programs succeeding because of or in spite of your governance structures? In most governance setups I have experienced (traditional or “so-called Agile”), artifacts/documents seem to play a major role: RACI matrices, one-p[…]

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Leadership Nudge

Be Agile: Chunk (or Slice) and Complete

Stop following the fixed plan. Delivering value to your customers requires pausing to evaluate along the way. In this short video, Jenni shares a back-of-the-napkin explanation for: Why we should stop relying on fixed, long-term plans. How to work[…]

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Agile Leadership

Supporting people through change

Change Organizational Change

In scaling Agile ways of working, frameworks suggest that we “organize around value” and that we foster “organizational Agility.” Of course! This is common sense. So how do we make it common practice? Change the way we work with organizational cha[…]

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Leadership Nudge

Choose Your Response

In an out-of-your-control, irritating situation, you can choose to stay irritated, or…try another response. In this video, Jenni shares: That we are in control of our responses. Choosing to see the positive side of an irritating situation keeps yo[…]

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Making Agile work

Motivation

Communicate Business Value to Your Stakeholders

I’ll let you in on a secret: I don’t care what letter you put in front of ”DD.” I don’t care so much about how code is written or the ins-and-outs of software development. It’s not because I don’t realize how incredibly important it is – it’s beca[…]

Read more

Leadership Nudge

Continually Repeat the Message

Feel like a broken record? You might, however your audience doesn’t hear it that way. In this video, Jenni shares: Why consistently repeating your message bring clarity. Advice on how to think of how your audience hears it, rather than on how you […]

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Agile Leadership

Motivation

Conversations with Leaders - Anne Carøe Hald

Anne Carøe Hald from Lunar bank in Copenhagen shares what TOGETHER means to her and how it impacts how she leads. It's about doing what matters. She asks: what is it that you really want? As a leader, you need to have these conversations in order […]

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Agile Leadership

Motivation

Conversations with Leaders – Ida Marie Bjerre Jepsen

Meet Ida, the head of ReDI School in Copenhagen, a non-profit technical school. ReDi School provides women with refugee and migrant backgrounds valuable digital skills, as well as a strong network of fellow students, volunteers and alumni to gain […]

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Agile Leadership

Motivation

Conversations with Leaders: Anders Sabra

Learn what being together with the right people means from the perspective of a racing boat skipper, and lessons to take into leading at every level in your organization.

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Agile Leadership

Agile leadership & enabling teams

Conversations with Leaders: Anders Vognsen, Novo Nordisk

Anders Vognsen, Head of the Lean Agile Center of Excellence in Novo Nordisk, works together with his team and colleagues to focus on delivering value for the global healthcare company headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. Novo Nordisk’s purpose is[…]

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Agile Leadership

Feedback

Conversations with Leaders: Jørn Overgaard Christiansen

One of the characteristics of great leaders is vulnerability. Nordea’s Jørn Overgaard Christiansen shares lessons learned about the importance of empathy in working together.

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Agile Leadership

Conversations with Leaders: Mads Jæger, KPMG

Meet Mads Jæger. Partner KPMG, the fastest growing professional services firm in Denmark. Across their service lines, KPMG works with more than 75% of companies in C20 and 15 of the largest companies in Denmark. In our latest Conversations with Le[…]

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Agile Leadership

Conversations with Leaders: Nicolai Porsbo

Build trust to breakdown silos by: being curious, seeing others’ perspectives & experimenting to do things differently TOGETHER.

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Agile Leadership

Conversations with Leaders: Tommy Leoni, Codan

Keeping close connections with employees in the time of COVID. How Tommy and his team at Codan Forsikring in Copenhagen create greater understanding TOGETHER.

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Agile Leadership

Feedback

Conversations with Leaders: Trine Hardy, CitizenM

Solving stressful challenges together. How CitizenM Copenhagen’s staff uses feedback to learn and move forward TOGETHER.

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Leadership Nudge

Embrace Life's Speedbumps

Though it may seem counterintuitive, slowing down when all you want to do is speed up may be the smartest thing to do. In this short video, Jenni shares: The importance of pausing to make space for the next step. How speed bumps serve as “calming […]

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Keynotes

Empowering People is Impossible

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Agile Leadership

Making Agile work

End Meeting Hell - Part 1

Look familiar? End this meeting hell by involving & engaging, and understanding together to create ownership.

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Agile Leadership

Making Agile work

End Meeting Hell: Part 2

More consequences of command & control behavior blocking the ability to get great things done. You can end meeting hell TOGETHER!

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Agile Leadership

Making Agile work

End Meeting Hell: Part 3

Not taking time to Understand Together leads to confusion, frustration, and lots of wasted time. You can end meeting hell TOGETHER.

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Leadership Nudge

Focus on Success

Our brains make us focus on errors. What if we could focus more on successes? In this video, Jenni shares: That our brains are trained to focus on errors. Why a move-toward-reward mindset makes more sense than an avoid-errors mindset. Spending mor[…]

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Feedback

Making Agile work

Follow the value – know enough to get going

Chunking work into shorter complete cycles by scheduling a pause gives us a chance to reflect on the completed work and decide on the next step. The added benefit of many completes within the scope of a project allows for improvements to take plac[…]

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Intent-Based Leadership

Leadership Nudge

Give a Little Control

If giving up control is hard, start by giving just a little bit of control. In this short video, Jenni shares: How to help your inner “control freak” let go of control. Feel safer giving up control. Start small and build the give-control habit. Th[…]

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Agile Leadership

Intent-Based Leadership

How David Marquet sees the world improving TOGETHER

A case history on the importance of understanding together and how it leads to getting great things done from best-selling author of Turn the Ship Around!, L. David Marquet. Living in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic taught us the importance of do[…]

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Brain-friendly change

Feedback

How do our brains react to feedback?

Did you know that research shows that giving unsolicited feedback doesn’t work? People go on the defensive and improvements don’t happen. Watch & learn what to do instead.

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Agile Leadership

Brain-friendly change

How do you support and encourage people through change?

To help people get through the pain of change, be available for your team members, and transparent in how you share information. Watch Jenni's Leadership Nudge on why leaders must support and encourage people through change.

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Intent-Based Leadership

Leadership Nudge

How Intent-Based Leadership® helps people feel safe to speak up

Many of the leaders we work with are frustrated that their people don’t speak up and share their ideas or issues that they see. “Why do I always find out later?” and “Why are our team members so passive in meetings and workshops?” are questions we[…]

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Leadership Nudge

How Leaders Manage Change

Don’t let people fend for themselves in a change, remove the frustration by supporting and encouraging people through the change instead. In this video nudge, Jenni shares: The importance of supporting people through change. That by recognising th[…]

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Intent-Based Leadership

Leadership Nudge

How to Get Better using Mental Contrasting

Getting better at what we do not only makes our daily life easier, it increases our motivation. Simply put, we feel a rush when we improve. The Intent-Based Leadership principle: Don’t be good, get better brings our focus, as leaders, to improving[…]

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Motivation

How to Involve & Engage in Online Workshops

Online meetings and workshops are here to stay. However, so many of them are boring and fail to involve and engage participants. If we don’t involve and engage people, we will never create ownership for the results from the workshop.

Read more

Leadership Nudge

Human or Resource? Jenni discusses how we treat people at work

The impact of our words on our thinking is clear. When we talk about the great people working with us in our organizations as “resources,” it turns people into objects. Objects that can be moved around or discarded at will. Over the long term, our[…]

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Leadership Nudge

Immediate Recognition

When was the last time you caught someone in the act of doing something right? Sometimes in this busy world we live in, we forget to acknowledge when people are doing things right. In this video, Jenni shares how: Immediate recognition reinforces […]

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Intent-Based Leadership

Introduction to Intent-based Leadership

Jenni's introduction to Intent-based Leadership from the Agile Breakfast is now available to watch in full with subtitles.

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Keynotes

Jenni Jepsen Intent Based Leadership Agile Tour Vienna 2019

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Feedback

Intent-Based Leadership

L. David Marquet shares the story that inspired a best seller

In this video in our Conversations with Leaders series, L. David Marquet shares an early mistake he made as a U.S. Navy submarine captain. It’s the story that inspired his best-selling book, Turn the Ship Around! The captain and his crew were gett[…]

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Agile Leadership

Agile leadership & enabling teams

Learn how the Vice President at Tryg works the agile way

In our latest “Conversations with Leaders,” we interview Michael Poulsen, Vice President, Head of Business Technology at Tryg. Tryg is one of the largest insurance companies in Scandinavia with nearly 7,000 employees. “Conversations with Leaders” […]

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Intent-Based Leadership

Learn more about how to work with Intent-Based Leadership®

Our old ideas of good leadership is where the leader knows all, tells all and is always in control. It’s difficult for us to change because those old habits are hardwired in our brains! Intent-Based Leadership® offers a way for us to rewire – to g[…]

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Making Agile work

Scaled Planning

Make SAFe™ work -with Scaled planning

Why is it that figuring out what to focus on in the PI/Big Room Planning sessions is always difficult? In this video, we explain what it takes to make SAFe work with Slicing and Master Planning. This is how to make SAFe work – with Scaled Planning[…]

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Intent-Based Leadership

Making Agile work

Our Agile evolution, and then the revolution

There’s a lot we’ve learned in all the years we’ve been working with organizations looking to deliver value to their customers faster, and have happier employees. Discovering Agile methodologies: XP, Scrum and SAFe changed our lives. But the real […]

Read more

Feedback

Making Agile work

Put the Feedback back into “Demo & Feedback”

Rename your “sprint review” or “iteration review” to demo & feedback, to emphasize that the purpose is to get feedback. Without feedback, we’re blindfolded in our attempt to follow the value and build something that will delight our customers. Dem[…]

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Keynotes

Redefining Leadership

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Keynotes

Redefining leadership in a not so normal world

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Leadership Nudge

Reduce Stress to Drive Success

Optimal thinking depends on the right levels of stress. How does stress affect productivity? What can leaders do to help their team be more effective? In this video, Jenni shares: Why we need to have the right amount of stress to get to high perfo[…]

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Brain-friendly change

Rely on insight if you want the best solutions

Organizational challenges in the 21st century require more than pure fact in order to get to successful strategies. We no longer live in a world where analysis alone provides the best solutions. But the bias still exists to solve problems with ana[…]

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Leadership Nudge

Remove Impediments

Learn how the impediment buster board helps make it easier to remove blockers in your organization. In this video, Jenni shares: How one simple tool makes it easy to make obstacles transparent in the organization. How you can remove those obstacle[…]

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Making Agile work

Scaled Planning

Scaling Agile - Master Planning Together

Scaled planning, including slicing and master planning, is a pragmatic approach to help you with your scaled planning challenges. Scaled planning uses the organization’s overall Strategic objectives (the target in the middle of the illustration) a[…]

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Making Agile work

Scaled Planning

Scaling Agile - Slice and Understand Together

The only right way to start a new development effort is to get slicing and a common understanding in place – and it is very difficult to do. Perhaps you might think you have it in place, and then you start planning and developing, and find out tha[…]

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Scaling Agile

Making Agile work

Scaling Agile – a Real Story

Scaled Planning, including slicing and master planning, is a pragmatic approach to help you with your scaled planning challenges. Scaled planning uses the organization’s overall strategic objectives (the target in the middle of the illustration) a[…]

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Making Agile work

Scaled Planning

Scaling Agile – Big Room Planning

Scaled planning, including slicing and master planning, is a pragmatic approach to help you with your scaled planning challenges. Scaled planning uses the organization’s overall strategic objectives (the target in the middle of the illustration) a[…]

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Leadership Nudge

Stop giving feedback, ask for it instead

Research shows giving feedback doesn’t work. For feedback to work, we need to want it. Asking for feedback enables us to improve. In this video, Jenni shares: Why asking for feedback is the secret to making feedback work. Why feedback feels threat[…]

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Keynotes

Stop giving feedback!

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Brain-friendly change

Motivation

Stress, Performance & Motivation

Help your people reduce stress & increase performance. Leaders who support and encourage their people, especially in times of stress, have higher performing organizations. Learn more about how stress impacts our performance — and what we can do ab[…]

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Leadership Nudge

Take a Break

Hard time focusing on a task at hand? Take a break. In this video, Jenni shares: Why taking a break is good for our thinking. Why continuing a cognitive task when you’re out of energy doesn’t make sense. The focused, rational thinking part of our […]

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Leadership Nudge

The Key to Happiness

Trying to control what others do or what we cannot control is not only frustrating, it’s bad for your health & happiness. In this video, Jenni shares: Why trying to control what you cannot control is bad for your health. How you can choose to let […]

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Agile Leadership

Making Agile work

The Magic of Organizing around Customer Journeys

Did you know that Amazon can deliver your package in 30 minutes? In contrast, most banks take weeks to deliver a simple loan or service. Why? Because Amazon is organized around customer journeys. Banks typically need to involve several departments[…]

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Agile Leadership

Brain-friendly change

The Neuroscience of Agile Leadership

We know from experience that Agile works to increase people’s motivation, joy of work, and effectiveness. But why, from a brain perspective, do things like having the overview, influence, autonomy and certainty work to make us feel more rewarded[…]

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Keynotes

The neuroscience of agile leadership

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Leadership Nudge

The Power of Yet

Our brains have evolved over thousands of years to see the danger around us. Hardwiring these negative connections has allowed us to survive as a species. And it has also made it easy for us to say, “I can’t” or “we can’t.” In this video, Jenni sh[…]

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Leadership Nudge

Think Out Loud

Think out loud to share ideas, observations, worries, and questions in any kind of change. Learn how one company is “thinking out loud” as a way to implement their new operating model. In this short video, Jenni shares the story of an organization[…]

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Agile Leadership

Tips for POs: Working with your stakeholders

The job of Product Owner is incredibly complex – it involves understanding the value that needs to be delivered (from your users’ or customers’ perspective) and figuring out how to work with all the product’s stakeholders to get that value deliver[…]

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Brain-friendly change

Motivation

Together – take advantage of how we’re wired to get results

There’s a lot of togetherness in today’s agile organizations. Working together does bring results. Did you know, though, that seeking social connections are things we humans do naturally? Our brains are wired to connect. Take advantage of this[…]

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Leadership Nudge

Try less before more

You know the drill. We get a lot of requirements from stakeholders, ideas from people all around us and suddenly our backlog is so large there is no way we can keep the overview let alone get everything done. Why do we always seem to add things to[…]

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Agile Leadership

Webinar on demand: 3 reasons Agile doesn't work

People working in Agile organizations say this frequently – and of course, they’re right. Agile only brings us more business value when: Everyone has clarity about what business value looks and feels like. We have sliced our desirements/objectives[…]

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Agile leadership & enabling teams

Webinar on demand: Think hybrid Big Room planning doesn’t work? Think again.

If you’re working in an organization that requires planning across multiple teams across multiple countries, you’re probably part of hybrid Big Room Planning sessions (also known as PI Planning & 90-day planning). Yet…so often we hear people say […]

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Leadership Nudge

Why true but useless comments should remain unsaid

The next time somebody is telling you about their situation and you want to comment, think before you speak: is what you are about to say helpful? In this video, Jenni shares: Why sometimes we don’t need to voice our opinion. That providing a posi[…]

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Agile Leadership

Brain-friendly change

You can’t empower people

There are so many KPIs that talk about “empowerment.” Empowering people means that you have the power! Watch our talk about how leaders can create an environment where people feel empowered, rather than depending on you to empower them.

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Agile Leadership

Agile leadership & enabling teams

Brain-friendly change

Feedback

Intent-Based Leadership

Keynotes

Leadership Nudge

Making Agile work

Motivation

Scaled Planning

Scaling Agile

Supporting people through change

Brain-friendly change

Making Agile work

"Flirting" With Your Customers

All over the world, there are classes that teach people how to flirt. A German university even requires their IT engineers take a flirting class—not to attract a partner, but to learn how to interact more effectively in the workplace. While it may[…]

Read more

Intent-Based Leadership

Making Agile work

A simple hack to remove impediments

How do we get things done faster? Simple tools can make the biggest impact on our work environment. Use this impediment busting tool to get over the hurdles in the workplace that keep your team from doing their best work. Watch this simple hack to[…]

Watch video

Agile Leadership

Agile's not just a methodology

There is a common misperception in many organizations transforming to Agile ways of working that Agile is yet one more way to do project management.And to make it worse, there are many funny sounding names for the frameworks: Scrum, Kanban and SAF[…]

Read more

Agile leadership & enabling teams

Making Agile work

Balancing Governance and Empowerment

Are your Agile teams and programs succeeding because of or in spite of your governance structures? In most governance setups I have experienced (traditional or “so-called Agile”), artifacts/documents seem to play a major role: RACI matrices, one-p[…]

Read more

Leadership Nudge

Be Agile: Chunk (or Slice) and Complete

Stop following the fixed plan. Delivering value to your customers requires pausing to evaluate along the way. In this short video, Jenni shares a back-of-the-napkin explanation for: Why we should stop relying on fixed, long-term plans. How to work[…]

Watch video

Agile Leadership

Supporting people through change

Change Organizational Change

In scaling Agile ways of working, frameworks suggest that we “organize around value” and that we foster “organizational Agility.” Of course! This is common sense. So how do we make it common practice? Change the way we work with organizational cha[…]

Read more

Leadership Nudge

Choose Your Response

In an out-of-your-control, irritating situation, you can choose to stay irritated, or…try another response. In this video, Jenni shares: That we are in control of our responses. Choosing to see the positive side of an irritating situation keeps yo[…]

Watch video

Making Agile work

Motivation

Communicate Business Value to Your Stakeholders

I’ll let you in on a secret: I don’t care what letter you put in front of ”DD.” I don’t care so much about how code is written or the ins-and-outs of software development. It’s not because I don’t realize how incredibly important it is – it’s beca[…]

Read more

Leadership Nudge

Continually Repeat the Message

Feel like a broken record? You might, however your audience doesn’t hear it that way. In this video, Jenni shares: Why consistently repeating your message bring clarity. Advice on how to think of how your audience hears it, rather than on how you […]

Watch video

Agile Leadership

Motivation

Conversations with Leaders - Anne Carøe Hald

Anne Carøe Hald from Lunar bank in Copenhagen shares what TOGETHER means to her and how it impacts how she leads. It's about doing what matters. She asks: what is it that you really want? As a leader, you need to have these conversations in order […]

Watch video

Agile Leadership

Motivation

Conversations with Leaders – Ida Marie Bjerre Jepsen

Meet Ida, the head of ReDI School in Copenhagen, a non-profit technical school. ReDi School provides women with refugee and migrant backgrounds valuable digital skills, as well as a strong network of fellow students, volunteers and alumni to gain […]

Watch video

Agile Leadership

Motivation

Conversations with Leaders: Anders Sabra

Learn what being together with the right people means from the perspective of a racing boat skipper, and lessons to take into leading at every level in your organization.

Watch video

Agile Leadership

Agile leadership & enabling teams

Conversations with Leaders: Anders Vognsen, Novo Nordisk

Anders Vognsen, Head of the Lean Agile Center of Excellence in Novo Nordisk, works together with his team and colleagues to focus on delivering value for the global healthcare company headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. Novo Nordisk’s purpose is[…]

Watch video

Agile Leadership

Feedback

Conversations with Leaders: Jørn Overgaard Christiansen

One of the characteristics of great leaders is vulnerability. Nordea’s Jørn Overgaard Christiansen shares lessons learned about the importance of empathy in working together.

Watch video

Agile Leadership

Conversations with Leaders: Mads Jæger, KPMG

Meet Mads Jæger. Partner KPMG, the fastest growing professional services firm in Denmark. Across their service lines, KPMG works with more than 75% of companies in C20 and 15 of the largest companies in Denmark. In our latest Conversations with Le[…]

Watch video

Agile Leadership

Conversations with Leaders: Nicolai Porsbo

Build trust to breakdown silos by: being curious, seeing others’ perspectives & experimenting to do things differently TOGETHER.

Watch video

Agile Leadership

Conversations with Leaders: Tommy Leoni, Codan

Keeping close connections with employees in the time of COVID. How Tommy and his team at Codan Forsikring in Copenhagen create greater understanding TOGETHER.

Watch video

Agile Leadership

Feedback

Conversations with Leaders: Trine Hardy, CitizenM

Solving stressful challenges together. How CitizenM Copenhagen’s staff uses feedback to learn and move forward TOGETHER.

Watch video

Leadership Nudge

Embrace Life's Speedbumps

Though it may seem counterintuitive, slowing down when all you want to do is speed up may be the smartest thing to do. In this short video, Jenni shares: The importance of pausing to make space for the next step. How speed bumps serve as “calming […]

Watch video

Keynotes

Empowering People is Impossible

Watch video

Agile Leadership

Making Agile work

End Meeting Hell - Part 1

Look familiar? End this meeting hell by involving & engaging, and understanding together to create ownership.

Watch video

Agile Leadership

Making Agile work

End Meeting Hell: Part 2

More consequences of command & control behavior blocking the ability to get great things done. You can end meeting hell TOGETHER!

Watch video

Agile Leadership

Making Agile work

End Meeting Hell: Part 3

Not taking time to Understand Together leads to confusion, frustration, and lots of wasted time. You can end meeting hell TOGETHER.

Watch video

Leadership Nudge

Focus on Success

Our brains make us focus on errors. What if we could focus more on successes? In this video, Jenni shares: That our brains are trained to focus on errors. Why a move-toward-reward mindset makes more sense than an avoid-errors mindset. Spending mor[…]

Watch video

Feedback

Making Agile work

Follow the value – know enough to get going

Chunking work into shorter complete cycles by scheduling a pause gives us a chance to reflect on the completed work and decide on the next step. The added benefit of many completes within the scope of a project allows for improvements to take plac[…]

Watch video

Intent-Based Leadership

Leadership Nudge

Give a Little Control

If giving up control is hard, start by giving just a little bit of control. In this short video, Jenni shares: How to help your inner “control freak” let go of control. Feel safer giving up control. Start small and build the give-control habit. Th[…]

Watch video

Agile Leadership

Intent-Based Leadership

How David Marquet sees the world improving TOGETHER

A case history on the importance of understanding together and how it leads to getting great things done from best-selling author of Turn the Ship Around!, L. David Marquet. Living in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic taught us the importance of do[…]

Watch video

Brain-friendly change

Feedback

How do our brains react to feedback?

Did you know that research shows that giving unsolicited feedback doesn’t work? People go on the defensive and improvements don’t happen. Watch & learn what to do instead.

Watch video

Agile Leadership

Brain-friendly change

How do you support and encourage people through change?

To help people get through the pain of change, be available for your team members, and transparent in how you share information. Watch Jenni's Leadership Nudge on why leaders must support and encourage people through change.

Watch video

Intent-Based Leadership

Leadership Nudge

How Intent-Based Leadership® helps people feel safe to speak up

Many of the leaders we work with are frustrated that their people don’t speak up and share their ideas or issues that they see. “Why do I always find out later?” and “Why are our team members so passive in meetings and workshops?” are questions we[…]

Watch video

Leadership Nudge

How Leaders Manage Change

Don’t let people fend for themselves in a change, remove the frustration by supporting and encouraging people through the change instead. In this video nudge, Jenni shares: The importance of supporting people through change. That by recognising th[…]

Watch video

Intent-Based Leadership

Leadership Nudge

How to Get Better using Mental Contrasting

Getting better at what we do not only makes our daily life easier, it increases our motivation. Simply put, we feel a rush when we improve. The Intent-Based Leadership principle: Don’t be good, get better brings our focus, as leaders, to improving[…]

Watch video

Motivation

How to Involve & Engage in Online Workshops

Online meetings and workshops are here to stay. However, so many of them are boring and fail to involve and engage participants. If we don’t involve and engage people, we will never create ownership for the results from the workshop.

Read more

Leadership Nudge

Human or Resource? Jenni discusses how we treat people at work

The impact of our words on our thinking is clear. When we talk about the great people working with us in our organizations as “resources,” it turns people into objects. Objects that can be moved around or discarded at will. Over the long term, our[…]

Watch video

Leadership Nudge

Immediate Recognition

When was the last time you caught someone in the act of doing something right? Sometimes in this busy world we live in, we forget to acknowledge when people are doing things right. In this video, Jenni shares how: Immediate recognition reinforces […]

Watch video

Intent-Based Leadership

Introduction to Intent-based Leadership

Jenni's introduction to Intent-based Leadership from the Agile Breakfast is now available to watch in full with subtitles.

Watch video

Keynotes

Jenni Jepsen Intent Based Leadership Agile Tour Vienna 2019

Watch video

Feedback

Intent-Based Leadership

L. David Marquet shares the story that inspired a best seller

In this video in our Conversations with Leaders series, L. David Marquet shares an early mistake he made as a U.S. Navy submarine captain. It’s the story that inspired his best-selling book, Turn the Ship Around! The captain and his crew were gett[…]

Watch video

Agile Leadership

Agile leadership & enabling teams

Learn how the Vice President at Tryg works the agile way

In our latest “Conversations with Leaders,” we interview Michael Poulsen, Vice President, Head of Business Technology at Tryg. Tryg is one of the largest insurance companies in Scandinavia with nearly 7,000 employees. “Conversations with Leaders” […]

Watch video

Intent-Based Leadership

Learn more about how to work with Intent-Based Leadership®

Our old ideas of good leadership is where the leader knows all, tells all and is always in control. It’s difficult for us to change because those old habits are hardwired in our brains! Intent-Based Leadership® offers a way for us to rewire – to g[…]

Read more

Making Agile work

Scaled Planning

Make SAFe™ work -with Scaled planning

Why is it that figuring out what to focus on in the PI/Big Room Planning sessions is always difficult? In this video, we explain what it takes to make SAFe work with Slicing and Master Planning. This is how to make SAFe work – with Scaled Planning[…]

Watch video

Intent-Based Leadership

Making Agile work

Our Agile evolution, and then the revolution

There’s a lot we’ve learned in all the years we’ve been working with organizations looking to deliver value to their customers faster, and have happier employees. Discovering Agile methodologies: XP, Scrum and SAFe changed our lives. But the real […]

Read more

Feedback

Making Agile work

Put the Feedback back into “Demo & Feedback”

Rename your “sprint review” or “iteration review” to demo & feedback, to emphasize that the purpose is to get feedback. Without feedback, we’re blindfolded in our attempt to follow the value and build something that will delight our customers. Dem[…]

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Keynotes

Redefining Leadership

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Redefining leadership in a not so normal world

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Leadership Nudge

Reduce Stress to Drive Success

Optimal thinking depends on the right levels of stress. How does stress affect productivity? What can leaders do to help their team be more effective? In this video, Jenni shares: Why we need to have the right amount of stress to get to high perfo[…]

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Brain-friendly change

Rely on insight if you want the best solutions

Organizational challenges in the 21st century require more than pure fact in order to get to successful strategies. We no longer live in a world where analysis alone provides the best solutions. But the bias still exists to solve problems with ana[…]

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Leadership Nudge

Remove Impediments

Learn how the impediment buster board helps make it easier to remove blockers in your organization. In this video, Jenni shares: How one simple tool makes it easy to make obstacles transparent in the organization. How you can remove those obstacle[…]

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Making Agile work

Scaled Planning

Scaling Agile - Master Planning Together

Scaled planning, including slicing and master planning, is a pragmatic approach to help you with your scaled planning challenges. Scaled planning uses the organization’s overall Strategic objectives (the target in the middle of the illustration) a[…]

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Making Agile work

Scaled Planning

Scaling Agile - Slice and Understand Together

The only right way to start a new development effort is to get slicing and a common understanding in place – and it is very difficult to do. Perhaps you might think you have it in place, and then you start planning and developing, and find out tha[…]

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Scaling Agile

Making Agile work

Scaling Agile – a Real Story

Scaled Planning, including slicing and master planning, is a pragmatic approach to help you with your scaled planning challenges. Scaled planning uses the organization’s overall strategic objectives (the target in the middle of the illustration) a[…]

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Making Agile work

Scaled Planning

Scaling Agile – Big Room Planning

Scaled planning, including slicing and master planning, is a pragmatic approach to help you with your scaled planning challenges. Scaled planning uses the organization’s overall strategic objectives (the target in the middle of the illustration) a[…]

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Leadership Nudge

Stop giving feedback, ask for it instead

Research shows giving feedback doesn’t work. For feedback to work, we need to want it. Asking for feedback enables us to improve. In this video, Jenni shares: Why asking for feedback is the secret to making feedback work. Why feedback feels threat[…]

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Keynotes

Stop giving feedback!

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Brain-friendly change

Motivation

Stress, Performance & Motivation

Help your people reduce stress & increase performance. Leaders who support and encourage their people, especially in times of stress, have higher performing organizations. Learn more about how stress impacts our performance — and what we can do ab[…]

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Leadership Nudge

Take a Break

Hard time focusing on a task at hand? Take a break. In this video, Jenni shares: Why taking a break is good for our thinking. Why continuing a cognitive task when you’re out of energy doesn’t make sense. The focused, rational thinking part of our […]

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Leadership Nudge

The Key to Happiness

Trying to control what others do or what we cannot control is not only frustrating, it’s bad for your health & happiness. In this video, Jenni shares: Why trying to control what you cannot control is bad for your health. How you can choose to let […]

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Agile Leadership

Making Agile work

The Magic of Organizing around Customer Journeys

Did you know that Amazon can deliver your package in 30 minutes? In contrast, most banks take weeks to deliver a simple loan or service. Why? Because Amazon is organized around customer journeys. Banks typically need to involve several departments[…]

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Agile Leadership

Brain-friendly change

The Neuroscience of Agile Leadership

We know from experience that Agile works to increase people’s motivation, joy of work, and effectiveness. But why, from a brain perspective, do things like having the overview, influence, autonomy and certainty work to make us feel more rewarded[…]

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Keynotes

The neuroscience of agile leadership

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Leadership Nudge

The Power of Yet

Our brains have evolved over thousands of years to see the danger around us. Hardwiring these negative connections has allowed us to survive as a species. And it has also made it easy for us to say, “I can’t” or “we can’t.” In this video, Jenni sh[…]

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Leadership Nudge

Think Out Loud

Think out loud to share ideas, observations, worries, and questions in any kind of change. Learn how one company is “thinking out loud” as a way to implement their new operating model. In this short video, Jenni shares the story of an organization[…]

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Agile Leadership

Tips for POs: Working with your stakeholders

The job of Product Owner is incredibly complex – it involves understanding the value that needs to be delivered (from your users’ or customers’ perspective) and figuring out how to work with all the product’s stakeholders to get that value deliver[…]

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Motivation

Together – take advantage of how we’re wired to get results

There’s a lot of togetherness in today’s agile organizations. Working together does bring results. Did you know, though, that seeking social connections are things we humans do naturally? Our brains are wired to connect. Take advantage of this[…]

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Leadership Nudge

Try less before more

You know the drill. We get a lot of requirements from stakeholders, ideas from people all around us and suddenly our backlog is so large there is no way we can keep the overview let alone get everything done. Why do we always seem to add things to[…]

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Agile Leadership

Webinar on demand: 3 reasons Agile doesn't work

People working in Agile organizations say this frequently – and of course, they’re right. Agile only brings us more business value when: Everyone has clarity about what business value looks and feels like. We have sliced our desirements/objectives[…]

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Agile leadership & enabling teams

Webinar on demand: Think hybrid Big Room planning doesn’t work? Think again.

If you’re working in an organization that requires planning across multiple teams across multiple countries, you’re probably part of hybrid Big Room Planning sessions (also known as PI Planning & 90-day planning). Yet…so often we hear people say […]

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Leadership Nudge

Why true but useless comments should remain unsaid

The next time somebody is telling you about their situation and you want to comment, think before you speak: is what you are about to say helpful? In this video, Jenni shares: Why sometimes we don’t need to voice our opinion. That providing a posi[…]

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Agile Leadership

Brain-friendly change

You can’t empower people

There are so many KPIs that talk about “empowerment.” Empowering people means that you have the power! Watch our talk about how leaders can create an environment where people feel empowered, rather than depending on you to empower them.

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Brain-friendly change

Feedback

Intent-Based Leadership

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Leadership Nudge

Making Agile work

Motivation

Scaled Planning

Scaling Agile

Supporting people through change

Brain-friendly change

Making Agile work

"Flirting" With Your Customers

All over the world, there are classes that teach people how to flirt. A German university even requires their IT engineers take a flirting class—not to attract a partner, but to learn how to interact more effectively in the workplace. While it may[…]

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Intent-Based Leadership

Making Agile work

A simple hack to remove impediments

How do we get things done faster? Simple tools can make the biggest impact on our work environment. Use this impediment busting tool to get over the hurdles in the workplace that keep your team from doing their best work. Watch this simple hack to[…]

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Agile Leadership

Agile's not just a methodology

There is a common misperception in many organizations transforming to Agile ways of working that Agile is yet one more way to do project management.And to make it worse, there are many funny sounding names for the frameworks: Scrum, Kanban and SAF[…]

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Agile leadership & enabling teams

Making Agile work

Balancing Governance and Empowerment

Are your Agile teams and programs succeeding because of or in spite of your governance structures? In most governance setups I have experienced (traditional or “so-called Agile”), artifacts/documents seem to play a major role: RACI matrices, one-p[…]

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Leadership Nudge

Be Agile: Chunk (or Slice) and Complete

Stop following the fixed plan. Delivering value to your customers requires pausing to evaluate along the way. In this short video, Jenni shares a back-of-the-napkin explanation for: Why we should stop relying on fixed, long-term plans. How to work[…]

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Agile Leadership

Supporting people through change

Change Organizational Change

In scaling Agile ways of working, frameworks suggest that we “organize around value” and that we foster “organizational Agility.” Of course! This is common sense. So how do we make it common practice? Change the way we work with organizational cha[…]

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Leadership Nudge

Choose Your Response

In an out-of-your-control, irritating situation, you can choose to stay irritated, or…try another response. In this video, Jenni shares: That we are in control of our responses. Choosing to see the positive side of an irritating situation keeps yo[…]

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Making Agile work

Motivation

Communicate Business Value to Your Stakeholders

I’ll let you in on a secret: I don’t care what letter you put in front of ”DD.” I don’t care so much about how code is written or the ins-and-outs of software development. It’s not because I don’t realize how incredibly important it is – it’s beca[…]

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Leadership Nudge

Continually Repeat the Message

Feel like a broken record? You might, however your audience doesn’t hear it that way. In this video, Jenni shares: Why consistently repeating your message bring clarity. Advice on how to think of how your audience hears it, rather than on how you […]

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Agile Leadership

Motivation

Conversations with Leaders - Anne Carøe Hald

Anne Carøe Hald from Lunar bank in Copenhagen shares what TOGETHER means to her and how it impacts how she leads. It's about doing what matters. She asks: what is it that you really want? As a leader, you need to have these conversations in order […]

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Agile Leadership

Motivation

Conversations with Leaders – Ida Marie Bjerre Jepsen

Meet Ida, the head of ReDI School in Copenhagen, a non-profit technical school. ReDi School provides women with refugee and migrant backgrounds valuable digital skills, as well as a strong network of fellow students, volunteers and alumni to gain […]

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Agile Leadership

Motivation

Conversations with Leaders: Anders Sabra

Learn what being together with the right people means from the perspective of a racing boat skipper, and lessons to take into leading at every level in your organization.

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Agile leadership & enabling teams

Conversations with Leaders: Anders Vognsen, Novo Nordisk

Anders Vognsen, Head of the Lean Agile Center of Excellence in Novo Nordisk, works together with his team and colleagues to focus on delivering value for the global healthcare company headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. Novo Nordisk’s purpose is[…]

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Agile Leadership

Feedback

Conversations with Leaders: Jørn Overgaard Christiansen

One of the characteristics of great leaders is vulnerability. Nordea’s Jørn Overgaard Christiansen shares lessons learned about the importance of empathy in working together.

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Agile Leadership

Conversations with Leaders: Mads Jæger, KPMG

Meet Mads Jæger. Partner KPMG, the fastest growing professional services firm in Denmark. Across their service lines, KPMG works with more than 75% of companies in C20 and 15 of the largest companies in Denmark. In our latest Conversations with Le[…]

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Agile Leadership

Conversations with Leaders: Nicolai Porsbo

Build trust to breakdown silos by: being curious, seeing others’ perspectives & experimenting to do things differently TOGETHER.

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Agile Leadership

Conversations with Leaders: Tommy Leoni, Codan

Keeping close connections with employees in the time of COVID. How Tommy and his team at Codan Forsikring in Copenhagen create greater understanding TOGETHER.

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Agile Leadership

Feedback

Conversations with Leaders: Trine Hardy, CitizenM

Solving stressful challenges together. How CitizenM Copenhagen’s staff uses feedback to learn and move forward TOGETHER.

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Leadership Nudge

Embrace Life's Speedbumps

Though it may seem counterintuitive, slowing down when all you want to do is speed up may be the smartest thing to do. In this short video, Jenni shares: The importance of pausing to make space for the next step. How speed bumps serve as “calming […]

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Keynotes

Empowering People is Impossible

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Agile Leadership

Making Agile work

End Meeting Hell - Part 1

Look familiar? End this meeting hell by involving & engaging, and understanding together to create ownership.

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Agile Leadership

Making Agile work

End Meeting Hell: Part 2

More consequences of command & control behavior blocking the ability to get great things done. You can end meeting hell TOGETHER!

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Agile Leadership

Making Agile work

End Meeting Hell: Part 3

Not taking time to Understand Together leads to confusion, frustration, and lots of wasted time. You can end meeting hell TOGETHER.

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Leadership Nudge

Focus on Success

Our brains make us focus on errors. What if we could focus more on successes? In this video, Jenni shares: That our brains are trained to focus on errors. Why a move-toward-reward mindset makes more sense than an avoid-errors mindset. Spending mor[…]

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