Julia’s Blog
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You As The Product: Reinvent Yourself Using Lessons from Product Innovation
What if you treated your career like a cutting-edge product? Let’s explore how we could apply strategies of Product Innovation to innovating our careers.
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Conflict Management Illustrated
Explore visual explanations of conflict management – illustrated insights on causes, styles, escalation, and how to deal with conflict effectively.
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The Abilene Paradox
Do you tend to avoid conflicts? If so, you might find the Abilene Paradox particularly interesting.
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Leadership Styles
Which Leadership style is the best? Usually, we are quick to answer: “Coaching Leadership Style.” But is this always the right answer?
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“Dream and Ground” Brainstorming Technique
The Dream and Ground brainstorming technique help unleash creativity while clarifying what is really important to us.
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“What If?” Brainstorming Technique
The “What If?” brainstorming technique is a creative method designed to encourage out-of-the-box thinking by posing hypothetical, often extreme or unusual scenarios.
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The Power of Pre-Mortem
Pre-mortem technique is a powerful, proactive way to surface potential risks before they become real problems.
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Organizational Debt
Organizational Debt refers to the inefficiencies, compromises, and suboptimal decisions that organizations accumulate as they grow.
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Reverse Brainstorming
Reverse Brainstorming is a creative thinking technique where instead of focusing on solving a problem, you explore ways to make the problem worse.
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Facilitation at Different Stages
Facilitation tips and activities for different stages of decision-making process: Divergent Thinking, Groan Zone, and Convergent Thinking.
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Leadership in a Complex World In Pictures
Leadership in a Complex World in pictures. Discover different Leadership styles and how they fit in the reality of a complex world.
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The Cobra Effect
Have you heard about The Cobra Effect? It refers to a situation that happened in India during British rule. The British government was seriously concerned about the large number of venomous cobra snakes in Delhi, so the government officials offered a generous bounty for every dead cobra collected. Initially, this was a very successful strategy…
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‘Your Strengths on Your Back’ Icebreaker
A very dynamic and fun icbreaker whic at the same time it creates warm feelings and is very encouraging for the participants.
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How I run the “Theory X and Y” exercise
Theory X and Theory Y people exercise is a great great activity for Leadership training.
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You As The Product In Pictures
What if you treated your career like a cutting-edge product?
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Feedback In Pictures
Visuals about Feedback giving and receiving. Feel free to use these visuals for your work and study. Many visuals are based on the book ‘Thanks for the Feedback’ by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen – a highly recommended reading. Receiving Feedback Giving Feedback PDF ‘How To Give and Receive Feedback’ See also: Learn giving positive…
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The Whole Team Approach to Innovation
Who is the source of innovation? People with the word “Innovation” in their title? Or Software Engineers?
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Agile, Lean & Scrum
Here, you can find my visuals on Agile, Lean & Scrum that you can use for your work and study.
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How I run the “Market Of Skills” exercise
Market Of Skills exercise is a great tool for creating awareness of knowledge and skills available within the team.
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Making More Mistakes
Making More Mistakes helps us progress with learning a new skill faster than anything else, says Adam Grant’s in his book “Hidden Potential.”
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High-Performing Team In Pictures
Drawings about Building Effective Teams.
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Constellation Icebreaker
The constellation exercise is a very gentle icebreaker, which allows team members to get to know each other.
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Participatory Decision-Making In Pictures
Visuals on Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kanner.
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Lost Name Icebreaker
Lost Name Icebreaker is a fun and entertaining activity, mostly for social events where participants are not familiar with each other.