In this episode, learn about how Jill Stott, a passionate agilist, navigated her career to becoming the VP of Innovation at NextUp Solutions. In her conversation with our host, Leslie Morse, she shares key learning moments from her career that have allowed her to reach a place where she is fulfilled and feels unstoppable.

For those of us considering a career change, feeling a little stalled, or still wondering who we want to be when you grow up - this episode will have several prompts and inquiries to help get you thinking! We hope you enjoy Jill’s career story as she introduces her current motto “Do More Stuff Better”.

About the Featured Guest
Jill is the Vice President of Innovation at NextUp Solutions. She works to develop better ways to assist
people in improving business outcomes and employee and customer happiness. Her current motto: Agile is
simple; people are complicated. Jill knows that culture can make or break and Agile transformation. She
focuses equally on developing Agile mindsets and applying stellar mechanics.

Follow Jill Stott on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillstott/)

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About our Hosts
Leslie Morse is an agilist at heart. She was leveraging agile practices and appreciating agile principles long before she even knew what they were. Her agile journey officially started in 2010 and she never looked back. Her career has taken many twists and turns. She led a digital marketing start-up in college, was involved with replatforming Lowes.com while they adopted agile practices, provided training and coaching for agile transformation across a wide array of industries, and now serves as a Product Owner for Scrum.org. She is trained in Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and has been involved in the Women in Agile movement since its original inception at Scrum Gathering 2013 in Las Vegas. You can follow Leslie on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliejdotnet).

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What do you do when you and your fellow product owners are competing for limited resources (human and otherwise) within your organization and senior leadership seems unwilling or unable to align around strategic priority for the company and create clarity on what the most important things to work on are. Is it okay for leadership to just wait for the Product Owners to fight it out? If you are a PO looking for strategic guidance, how can you get it?

In this podcast, Mike Vizdos joins me to talk through the impact this situation has on teams and their ability to deliver value. We explore what you might be able to do if you are faced with this “opportunity,”  how Patrick Lencioni’s idea of First Team has become an critical part of Mike’s work coaching senior leadership, and how AI is becoming part of his approach.

Links from the Podcast
First Team: https://www.michaelvizdos.com/resources/first-team
The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni https://bit.ly/43KMCox
Interactive Scrum Guide: https://www.michaelvizdos.com/interactive-scrum-guide
Audio Scrum Guide: https://www.michaelvizdos.com/scrum-guide
Implementing Scrum AI: https://implementingscrum.ai

Contacting Mike
Web: https://www.michaelvizdos.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mvizdos/
Blog: https://www.michaelvizdos.com/implementing-scrum/
Contact Form: https://www.michaelvizdos.com/contact

When Your Leadership Can't Agree  - Featuring  Mike Vizdos

With each new round of layoffs, the existential crisis facing the agile coaching community deepens. Alan Dayley joins me to discuss how the community is retrospecting on this moment and whether or not it is asking the right questions. 

Over the past year, a number of high-profile organizations have made a decision to let go of their agile coaches. The impact of that choice on those organizations will become apparent in time. The impact on the coaches, however, has been more immediate. In this episode of the podcast, I am joined by Alan Dayley for a conversation about how the agile coaching community has responded to this existential crisis. With all the current conversations about whether or not Agile is dying, or how coaches could make the value they add more obvious to the organization, but there is very little discussion about the systems and environment that led to the decision to get rid of the coaches I'm the first place. What were these organizations trying to achieve and did they actually get it? Have they reached a level of agility that no longer requires the help of a coach? Is it just change fatigue? Alan and I dig into these topics throughout the conversation.

This interview is also available in video. You can find that version here: https://youtu.be/TZ2KoSzkEB8

Contacting Alan
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alandd/
X (formerly Twitter): https://twitter.com/DayleyAgile
Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@adayley

The Agile Coach's Dilemma with Alan Dayley

In this engaging conversation, Dave Prior and Lonnie Weaver-Johnson delve into the complexities of giving and receiving feedback. They explore personal experiences, the emotional challenges associated with feedback, and practical strategies for improving feedback dynamics. Lonnie shares her insights on the importance of mindset, recognizing triggers, and the four Rs of feedback: recognize, receive, react, and respond. The discussion emphasizes the value of self-awareness and the need for constructive communication in both personal and professional settings.


Takeaways

 - Feedback can be life-changing if handled positively.
 - Many people struggle with receiving positive feedback.
 - It's crucial to learn how to accept feedback in various settings.
 - Feedback givers can help receivers by being mindful of their delivery.
 - The receiver ultimately controls how they handle feedback.
 - Compartmentalizing feedback can help in processing it effectively.
 - Recognizing triggers can aid in managing emotional responses to feedback.
 - Practicing self-talk can help combat negative internal feedback.
 - It's okay to ask for time to process feedback before responding.
 - Showing gratitude for feedback, even if it's hard to hear, can be beneficial.


Chapters

02:49 Introduction to Feedback Dynamics
05:35 The Importance of Receiving Feedback
8:26 Navigating Negative Feedback
11:40 Personal Stories and Lessons Learned
13:54 Triggers and Reactions to Feedback
16:38 The Four Rs of Feedback
19:42 Responding to Feedback Effectively
22:29 Self-Feedback and Positive Reinforcement


Links
Lonnie’s Session at 2025 PMI Global Summit
Beyond Going Through the Motions: Create Retrospectives That Lead To Change
https://pmiglobalsummit.gcs-web.com/program/agenda#sess61853976

Dave and Stuart’s Book
No One Is Coming to Save You: Power-ups to help surf the chaos
- Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/2765ztum
- Leanpub: https://leanpub.com/surfthechaos

Dave’s classes (CSM, CSPO, A-CSPO, PMP, PMI-ACP)
https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/dave-prior-classes-4758623

Contacting Lonnie
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lonnieweaverjohnson/
Web: https://www.lonniewj.com/

Recieving the Gift of Feedback with Lonnie Weaver-Johnson

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