tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65109536907026595122024-03-18T02:11:29.418+02:00Your Family, Agile, and YouThe Agile Coaching for Everyone BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger121125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510953690702659512.post-72624011914243433502017-09-04T08:38:00.002+03:002017-09-04T08:38:51.847+03:00The #agilefamily team - Stories from 2017<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How do some families and individuals incorporating agile methodologies into modern family life in 2017?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A practical way of getting daily tasks done and enhancing family communication. Agile Kids is the book every modern family needs, with both parents with full time jobs, and children who need their attention. An essential part of your child’s development is his ability to choose, be independent and control what happens in his life, and parents need to encourage that independence. Agile Kids will show you how to empower your children without losing your parental authority, through a collection of practical actions. Each chapter can stand alone, and offers practical advice you can act on straight away. The methods described in the book are is effective at teaching values and respect to others, and applies to public and home schooled children alike. So enjoy :)</span></span></div>
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आपके दैनिक कार्यों को करने व पारिवारिक संवाद को बेहतर बनाने के लिए एक
व्यावहारिक तरीका बताती है</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">| “</span><span lang="HI" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">एजाइल किड्स</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">” </span><span lang="HI" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">सभी मॉडर्न पारिवारिक ज़रूरतों के लिए है</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">| </span><span lang="HI" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">यह माता</span><span lang="HI" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">-</span><span lang="HI" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">पिता व बच्चे</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">, </span><span lang="HI" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">जो अपने अभिभावकों का उनकी ओर ध्यान चाहते हैं</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">, </span><span lang="HI" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">दोनों के ही लिए बहुत लाभदायक है</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">| </span><span lang="HI" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">बच्चों के विकास का एक महत्वपूर्ण भाग है उनकी
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कराता है</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">, </span><span lang="HI" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">जिसे
आप पढ़ने के साथ</span><span lang="HI" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">-</span><span lang="HI" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">साथ अमल में भी ला सकते हैं</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">| </span><span lang="HI" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">इस पुस्तक में वर्णन की गई पद्धतियाँ बच्चों को
वैल्यूज़ </span><span lang="HI" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">(</span><span lang="HI" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">पारिवारिक मूल्य</span><span lang="HI" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">) </span><span lang="HI" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">और दूसरों का सम्मान करना सिखाने में बहुत
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“We really need to stop questioning whether or not these online connections are real and, instead, start realizing how we can more effectively integrate our physical needs with our cognitive and emotional desires.”</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Change (and adapting to it) needs to become an ingrained habit and this is a simple way to do so with any coaching technique.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coaches use various types of tools and methods for life coaching, personal coaching, career coaching and many more…after all, Coaching is about getting the very best out of someone and enabling them to make decisions that will improve their life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This book is a tool, a booster to use with all of these different coaching methods. It's a booster for coaching results, to allow every coach in every field and level of coaching, to take the coaching to a new level, suitable for dealing with a rapidly changing environment.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The world around us is changing, and fast. It is becoming more and more complicated and the pace of technological change is one of the highest in recorded history. Naturally, this new reality creates new challenges. The goals that we want to achieve, for example, can be ever-changing – and therefore seem unachievable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To face these challenges, we need strategies that will help us regain a feeling of control over our goals, and help us reach them. We need ideas that will enable us grow and flourish, while at the same time help us face the uncertainties of change. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The need to develop new strategies and ideas, and adapt to changes, is at the heart of many coaching processes. Why? Because as coaches, we recognize our coachees' universal need to deal with change. They need to understand what needs to be changed, and they need to learn how to both preserve their newfound behavior so that it doesn't dissipate within a week or two, and how to easily change again when needed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's not that the questions we ask, as coaches, are not suitable anymore; it's not that the goals and value we help the customer realize have lost their relevance; it’s the way we manage the flow that leads to achieving these goals that has become unsuitable for rapidly changing environments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can agile management techniques,
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members function? Some believe so and are already busy implementing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yuval's (42) career was skyrocketing and he was definitely
on the fast track to success: within five years he had managed to turn from a
simple programmer at a small high-tech company to a director of development
leading more than 50 workers. But while at his company office he felt that he
was dealing with intellectual challenges suitable for his abilities –
translating complex thoughts into sentences that were thoroughly heard and peacefully
drinking his cup of coffee – at home the picture was altogether different. In
those days in which he managed to come home before his four children went to
sleep (the two young daughters were born in the last five years), he almost
regretted not staying in the office to get some more work done. The home was
utterly chaotic: the children (at their parents' request the family shall
remain anonymous, YH) had impossible demands for dinner, they refused to eat
and yelled belligerently at any suggested alternative. They threw their wet
towels on the floor after showering and refused to turn off the TV and go to
bed. When they were under the blankets they suddenly recalled that they had not
prepared their homework and in fact have an important math test tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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helpless, and when Yuval announced that for the coming week he would be
returning at particularly late hours as he was participating in an intensive
management workshop, she felt very frustrated. She didn't know the management
workshop was about to save their family life.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During that week Yuval's workplace was visited by representatives
from a company that provides consultation services in Israel and abroad on the
topic of Agile management, and taught him and his fellow executives the
specific methodology meant for software development companies, namely Scrum. "The
approach is based on teamwork (instead of tasks imposed from the top down), rapid
and early feedback, and thus allows for flexibility and change. In an Agile approach
there are four major position holders: The team – an independent group of
employees responsible for various tasks toward delivery (the sentence that was
etched in Yuval's memory was "Outside of work people
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Alongside them is the manager (who is responsible to assist the team meeting
the objectives) and the Scrum Master (who is responsible for conceptual oversight).
These two needs to help the team and keep it motivate. On the other side is the
customer, who presents the objectives and determines priorities."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Every short one or two week period of work is called
a Sprint, and it includes four meetings. Every day there is a short
synchronization meeting between the team members in which they ask: What have I
done since yesterday? What will I do until tomorrow? What's holding me back?
And at the end of the Sprint period there are meetings dedicated to presenting
the product in its current state, thinking of ways to improve and starting to
plan the next Sprint, while maintaining an overview of the entire project."…
"During one of the long evenings at the workshop it came to me, that this
is exactly what my family needed", says Yuval. "The analogy is almost
obvious – the children are the team. The manager, Scrum Master and client are
the parents. In the computer world it's about money, and in family life it's
about time."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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managing a family and managing a company or business. "Most parents feel
that their family life is in chaos, that they have no control over what's happening,
and that they always need to put out fires and be in defensive positions",
<u>says writer </u><a href="http://brucefeiler.com/">Bruce Feiler</a><u>,
author of <i>The Secrets of Happy Families</i></u>, in an email interview.
"I think we need to find ways to manage this mess in which our family life
takes place. But if we try to make changes every day, no one will be able to
function. Agile gives us a way to organize our life, so that we can adapt to
changes while maintaining stability. I've been studying happy families for
years, and what I've discovered is that these families have three things in
common: They adapt to changes all the time, there's a lot of talking going on
in them, and besides, these families spend time outside and play
together."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In his book <i>Feiler </i>explains that (translated)
"surveys show that stress is the most troubling issue for parents and
children. A leading cause of stress is change: When children stop suffering
from teething pains, they begin with age two tantrums. Just when they don't
need us to wash them anywhere, they need us to help them deal with online
bullying. It's no wonder that psychologists have determined that the most
important quality of a family is its ability to adapt easily. But does anyone
understand how to do this?" <i>Feiler</i>, who manages his own family
using Agile techniques, believes that the managerial knowledge that has
accumulated in America's leading organizations can also be applied within
families and might very well save them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When <i><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pub/shirly-ronen-harel/0/653/249" target="_blank">Shirly Ronen Harel</a></i>,
a social worker by training, got divorced, she certainly had to go through some
major adaptation processes. "I had two small children, a divorcee who had
to restart everything from scratch. The children were exposed to this
tension", she says. "I had to find a new apartment, get organized for
a great deal of tasks, one of the most important and challenging ones being the
children. At the time I was working for a high-tech company, and the more I implemented
Agile in the organization I noticed the examples I was using were from the
family world. When I taught a manager to set boundaries I told him, 'Think like
a parent, there are some boundaries you won't cross: You'll always have your
kid wearing a seatbelt in the safety seat even if he screams, but you will let
him choose what to wear in the morning.' Or, for example, when you want to give
your child a sense of growth, you won't start by immediately giving him the
toughest task – doing his math homework by himself. You'll start small, give
him a good feeling of capability." <i>Ronen Hare</i>l fell in love with
the methodology and today she works as a personal Agile coach. A book she wrote
together with <a href="mailto:@DankoAgile">Dany (Danko) Kovatch</a>, entitled <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/shirly-ronen-harel/agile-kids/ebook/product-21132681.html"><i>Agile
Kids</i></a><i> - </i><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/shirly-ronen-harel/agile-kids/ebook/product-21132681.html"><i>Who's the boss of me</i></a>, was published in digital format in English and Hebrew.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"The girls needs to do pushups for every minute they are shouting and
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So how does all this work, in practice? "Our daily
meeting is during the family dinner", elaborates Yuval, "It's
important that both parents are present, so my wife and I take care to be a
part of this dinner every day. During the meal we ask 'how was my day
yesterday', 'what I'm going to do until the next dinner', and 'what's holding
me back'. Today my daughter told us she had an exam and it went okay, that she
needs to practice for a dictation in English class, and what's holding her back
is that she has two after-school activities and doesn't have time. It's a very
short meeting, just 10 minutes, meant for family synchronization. Usually the
simpler problems are resolved during the meeting, and the children are the ones
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A central notion is to successfully develop the
children's ability to solve problems independently. If my 12 year old son has a
problem, I'll answer 'how do you think you can solve this?' I teach my six year
old girl using methods which I also use with my employees. I say to her 'Let's
start from the end. Tomorrow at seven o'clock in the evening there's a family
dinner, how do we reach a situation in which you'll manage to complete the task
despite your after-school activities? Where is your free time?' The vision is
independence, and when the vision is clear, decision-making becomes
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meetings and conversations with her children. "Even the <i>Supernanny</i>
says it's important to have dinner with your children. So we're saying
something similar, a bit more focused: since we're all gathered together, let's
make this meeting effective. When we start agile it usually start by discussing
the trivial and annoying things, such as why are their socks in the living
room? But slowly this noise desists. In a very short time the children are
already taking responsibility for tasks such as brushing their teeth and
homework and this gathering takes a turn in another direction. It's really a
lot of fun, for the parents as well as the children, to feel that they can
talk, that they are actually being listened to, that there's a place for them.
And then suddenly the boy gets the courage to talk about social problems he's
having, he thinks of solutions, sets objectives, and tracks changes on a
day-to-day basis. True education is from hands-on action, not theory, and we're
here to guide him along the way."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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family meeting: "Out of dozens of ideas we tried out when I was working on
the book, the family meeting was without a doubt the best thing we did. It
opened up a safe space in which we could talk, where we, the parents, aren't
stressed, aren't shouting and don't have one foot out the door. We don't rush
our dinners to reach other tasks. Additionally, we gain information from the
children. It's incredible. I mean, we don't know what they think and feel half
of the time. Another advantage is that once they're part of the process they
become independent. It's good for the family at the present moment, and it's a
major and significant tool for later on in life."</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My children have dinner at six. There's no chance to
have a family meeting with both parents present every evening at that hour.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"You have nothing to worry about when it comes to
dinner, and you're certainly not the only family that has a tough time
gathering around the same table at the early evening. But things are better
than you think. It turns out that just ten minutes of meaningful conversation
with your children are enough. For the rest of the dinner time you mostly try
to educate the children or just get the ketchup bottle from the other side of
the table. You can take these ten minutes, situate them anywhere else
throughout the day, and enjoy the same benefits. Try breakfast, or pre-bedtime
snacks. Even one meal during the weekend can help. Nowadays people record their
favorite TV shows and watch them when it's comfortable for them. This could
also work with family time."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Parents today live through grades given by
teachers", says <i>Ronen Harel</i>, "But using Agile allows parents
to be present all along the way, not just in order to scold the child when he
fails math. It requires giving attention to literature and bible classes as
well, to tooth-brushing and social situations. Overall we're talking about very
short periods of time that produce significant results. The result of focused
attention can be amazing. Very soon you start to receive feedback from school –
the child knows how to explain himself, to divide large tasks into small and
doable tasks, knows how to plan his time."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"On New Year's Eve everybody announces 'I'll stop
smoking!' and it lasts exactly two weeks. One of the most useful principles of
Agile is visualization. The presence of the objective creates greater attention
of it. When the objectives are small enough, not just for the two-week Sprint
but also to day-to-day tasks, and when you examine them and allow yourself to
change within cycles of feedback from your environment, you can really make
progress and create significant changes."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We look back, learn and reach conclusions", says
<i>Yuval</i>, also stressing the process that is a built-in part of the method,
"In Friday night dinners we have a review meeting at the end of a Sprint.
In this meeting each child presents last week's results – grades, a new dance
the girls learned. It doesn't have to be tangible. Sometimes they take it upon
themselves to speak with their teacher about a certain difficulty, or commit to
mutual assistance between the brothers. More than that, they learn how to plan
ahead, to be committed to the tasks of their choice, to speak in front of an
audience, to listen. We're six people, and thus element of how to talk and
listen even if you're not interested, is meaningful. We sit and think together
in a retrospective process, how we as a family can improve next time. How many
families do you know who do this?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After all it's just a technique, don't you need
something more substantial than a managerial methodology to make changes?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The technique leads the mindset. They say 'a diet
starts at the supermarket', and this also applies to family life, the
foundation is correct planning. Managers are taught that employees – and this
is exactly the same with children – have motivation buttons. You need to get to
know them and develop them through these buttons. It's not easy, as a manager
and a father, to set aside your ego in order to nurture inner motivation. You
need to be willing to pay the price patiently and make sure that mistakes that
do happen won't be critical, mistakes within reasonable boundaries. My daughter
didn't do her homework. I didn't have a fight with her about it, I just waited.
When she came to me a bit miserable because the teacher yelled at her, the
motivation to act was hers. The procedure gives a very good foundation and of
course you have to back it by the willingness to listen and be there."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>So ideally your children are free to do as they please,
and you don't really have an idea of what that is?</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"One of the nice things in this system is methods of
visibility. Once a team is independent, one of the problems managers face is
that they lose the visibility of things that are happening and it's difficult.
You're responsible for a project, you let the team be independent and don't
have a clue what they're doing for two weeks. The child commits to preparing
his homework until 7 PM, and despite this freedom you know that you're his
safety net, you don't want him to fail. One of the things we encourage with teams
and children is to display by pushing, the child needs to push the information
instead of the parent nagging him for it. A simple technique is a board with
three columns: what I'm planning to do this week, what I'm working on now, and
what I've finished. You place the board in a central location in the house, we
keep it in the kitchen, I pass by there and understand what's happening – the
board has sticky notes with little stores ('math exam'), I look at the column
and know what's going on with the child. I also use other means: whoever comes
home takes his backpack with him to his room. Whoever finishes his homework
places the backpack ready for tomorrow at the entrance to the house. I check
where the backpack is and know what's going on."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"One of the significant benchmarks in Agile is how
many times you said 'do it because I told you so, because I'm the boss' or how
many times you've raised your voice at your employees. This is also true in the
family. To become a better parent you need to be patient and not play the
parent card whenever you encounter some difficulty. You need to leave
communication channels open, and allow the child to make mistakes and feel that
it's legitimate to do so – he has the freedom, and from mistakes you learn and
get back on your feet."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Feiler</i> also stresses the aspect of the independence
that the method gives children. "Our instinct as parents is to tell our
children what to do. It's easy, and usually we're also right. But as an
educational tool, it's not great. Recent studies of the brain show that when
children set their own goals, build their own schedules and evaluate their own
work, this leads to development in their prefrontal cortex and in the long term
they become people with better control over their lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We decided to let our daughters choose their own
rewards and punishments. He have weekly family meetings in which we discuss two
issues we worked on, for example, overreaction. We ask our girls: what will
motivate you to act? And they choose – if they overreact for less than five
minutes they can spend the night at a friend's house, and if they do it for
more than fifteen minutes, they need to do push-ups for every minute of
tantrums and crying. The thing is that if we want our children to gain good
decision making skills, we need to enable them to practice when they're
young."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I don't think running an organization and managing a
family is exactly the same thing, but the very notion of having a shared family
dinner, you can call it a meeting or a gathering or whatever, is revolutionary
for most Israeli families today", says <a href="http://www.michaldalyot.co.il/"><i>parenting guru Michal Dalyot</i></a> who
runs the <a href="http://www.michaldalyot.co.il/">Michal Dalyot Center</a>, in
a phone interview. "A family in which all household members (preferably
including both parents, but even one of them) sit down to have a shared meal
four times a week is very rare in the current Israeli landscape. The young
children eat in front of the television set, the slightly older ones eat in
front of the computer and even if one of the parents is home at the time he's
busy: the mother is answering emails, the father is making lunch for
tomorrow."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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clear correlation between people's success in different parameters in their
life and the number of shared family meals they were present in during
childhood. Personally, I always had dinner with my four children, and when my
husband could he would join us. This idea, to look each other in the eye and
talk, without screens, without rushing anywhere, is very good."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"In Israel today there is no parental presence in the
household. The parents are very busy: working and often studying as well. What
little time is left to spend with the children, they're forced to devote to
daily rituals: showers, homework, chauffeuring, and there's no availability for
the essentials of values and emotions. We can make time for these things by
using managerial techniques: the household is an organization managed by the
parents. This organization needs to function efficiently in order for this
small community, which includes four or five members, to work properly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A family meeting is not an easy thing to manage. It
requires serious work to prevent this meeting from becoming a fight: 'I
expected you to do and you didn't', 'you were supposed to take care of that and
didn't'. You need to come from a place of empathy and acceptance: 'why didn't
we succeed?' 'Maybe we need to switch tasks?' Remember, we're parents, not a
manager who gets up and goes somewhere else at the end of the day. It's
important to remember that unlike in an organization, management can't remain
dry. The household is not just tasks and daily quantitative output. True, we
can manage our schedules and set a time for each child in advance, but it's
important to remember to hug and kiss and mostly remain extremely flexible.
Sometimes the child falls ill, sometimes his class is cancelled, there should
be a lot of room for understanding changes."</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Michal Dalyot. Make sure the
meeting will not become a battlefield. Picture: Eldad Refaeli</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Challenge: Letting Go.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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families of <i>Yuval</i> and <i>Shirly</i> gained happier family life. Could it
be that the tech crowd has once again been granted, even coincidentally, a
better life, while simple workers and their families remain outside of the
circle of beneficiaries? <a href="http://portal.idc.ac.il/faculty/en/pages/profile.aspx?username=sshiran"><i>Dr.
Sivanie Shiran</i></a>, an organizational consultant who specialized in
clinical psychology, says that "a lot of money was invested in developing
leadership in business people, and in recent years we've learned a lot about managing
and dealing with people with different personalities. Most of the lessons that
were learned from all these years of research were taken to places that could
pay for them, generously, to large companies and businesses. The family was left
out of the picture and did not have a chance to make use of most of this
knowledge. It's too bad and is a very sad statement about the places in which
we decide to invest money and resources.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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family is our first team". Picture:
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The family is the first team we belong to, our early experiences
within this group dynamic will later affect our ability to function in any
other team – professional or personal. A person doesn't see reality
objectively, but from his very personal viewpoint. Our early experiences create
the glasses through which we see the world, interpret it and communicate with it.
The way in which our first authority figures acted towards us, our
internalization of how to deal with authority, and our ability to trust others
are very much reliant upon our initial experiences in the nuclear family."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Two central themes that were developed in organizations and can be
very helpful for families are better evaluation abilities and consequently
preventing future problems. Organizational psychology has developed fairly
efficient tools to discover people's natural tendencies: how they read data,
how they organize it, what motivates them. Organizations use these types of
evaluation questionnaires to characterize managerial styles and enable managers
to work in cooperation with employees who have different styles. If I'm the
thinking type and you're the feeling type, we'll have to talk to each other
differently in order to convince and solve conflicts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"This mapping can be very beneficial for future parents. They can
understand things related to their natural tendencies and the way they act.
Where do they get their information from? How do they process it? How do they
make decisions? How do they gather energy? Should they be around other people
or gather themselves inwards? When they have all this information, future
parents can understand where there might be points of difficulty in the future
and prevent problems from developing. But these questionnaires and analysis
only reach clients who pay a lot of money, mostly businesses and not families,
and certainly not in future-oriented preventive work."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still, is this knowledge the crux of the matter? Maybe the fact that
parents spend too little time with their children and are under immense
pressure is the actual problem, and not some managerial vision or other?
"There's no doubt that family life in the modern world is a very stressful
affair, and parenting has become a nearly impossible mission", says <i>Shiran</i>.
"Doubtless organizations today don't make it easy to develop a life
outside of the organization. People struggle to find the magic pill, the new
technique, the amazing tip that makes everything possible. It's not likely to
happen. Some techniques can ease the situation, but this problem runs
deep."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The challenge is not to learn the information, or learn a new model. The
challenge is to let go, or be aware of the models we already have and that we
developed throughout our lives. In organizations too, people read the bestsellers
that tell them how management is supposed to be done, what will cause things to
work properly, but it only gets them that far. This is also true for families.
There is a reason that people don't apply all this good advice. It sounds so
obvious, so why not just adopt it into our lives? There are deeper reasons,
because of which people haven't managed to do this so far and they will return
to their previous behavior as they have done until now."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Contrary to <i>Shiran, Ronen Harel</i> insists on being optimistic in
declaring "Anyone can do it. Without a doubt. One of the families I
coached was an ultra-orthodox Jewish family with ten children. Everything there
is very complicated - who wakes up who in the morning, who makes whose sandwich
for school. A whole system, one that you can drown in if it's not organized
correctly. They drank these organizational ideas with a great thirst and since
then are successfully applying the method. As far as you can get from
high-tech, but as you can see, also very close."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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dinner or any other time, in which 10 whole minutes can be devoted to family
conversation: What are the plans for today? What have we done yesterday? Where
do expect difficulties?<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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week? In which tasks did we not succeed this week? What do we want to work on
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settlement in the Sharon plain, two school backpacks stand. It looks like an
ordinary affair, maybe even a bit of a mess, but in this house everything is
part of a system: When I arrive, at evening time, we enter the kitchen. Like in
most families, this is the heart of the house, and here they show me the core
of their activity – a big colorful project board. Under things we want to do:
preparing costumes for Purim, birthday gifts for Grandma, learning how to make
sushi. Under things we're working on: riding a bicycle, organizing the kitchen.
Under things we have done: preparing the backpack for tomorrow, paying
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their personal task boards. Every child, from age three, receives a board here,
sets objectives for himself, tracks his progress and does everything in his
power to complete them. At first this is small and essential personal habits
(tooth brushing and making the bed), or tasks such as attempting to do a full
split, preparing bracelets from rubber bands and signing the school report
cards. But now, in the advanced section, one of the bigger projects that the
older children are working on (9 and 12) is planning the family vacation. The
destination was chosen in a family meeting, and the task of planning was given,
mostly if not entirely, specifically to the family members who have never
ridden an inter-city bus on their own yet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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always fun to plan everything, to think about stuff. Sometimes we just want to
be free, to live in a normal house, where you eat dinner in front of the
television and your parents aren't sure if you have a test in math or bible
studies tomorrow." Yuval nods and legitimizes: "I don't want to raise
children who do what they're told. When they rebel I'm actually happy. Let them
try things out, choose what's best for them on their own."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 12 year old answers that "I learn about myself. In the
beginning I would fill the board with tasks. All the things I wanted to do, all
my dreams. I would try to run six projects at the same time – studying for a
test, learning to surf, becoming better at helping around the house,
remembering to call my grandmother on Friday, and more and more. And I thought
this board wasn't working. I'm writing all these things and not managing to do
them. I took me time to understand that I can do maybe three things at
once."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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battle'. The problem with the modern world is that people are always adding
more and more tasks and more and more pressure, and then they break. That's not
particularly smart. What's smart is to acknowledge the boundaries of your
abilities, to manage to prioritize and complete tasks from start to finish."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sit down and talk with my parents at dinner and sometimes I don't even want to be
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #444444; padding: 0cm;">1. Relax.</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #444444; padding: 0cm;"> </span></b></span><span style="color: #444444;">A 'fun' mood is better
than stress, and always helps make things better, especially for kids. If you
are so stressed from your current exploding task list , take a deep breath ,
count to 10 , relax yourself and only than start deal with your tasks using the
following tips.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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done and feel in control. Use a task board. For first-timers, take the time to
draw a list and place all your tasks on the board. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You don’t need a special
visualization or order just yet. The first small step will be Just – visualize.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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one , will be to separate 1-3 tasks out
of the entire tasks list, and visualize them. Our brain deals better with small
lists then large once , but it can also be fooled thinking you have a small
list of tasks only by separating visually , with a simple line, a bunch of tasks from the entire wish list.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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within this time frame. Nothing else goes in at that time as a task.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Timeframe is small and controllable, you increase your sense of control and
reduce stress – one of the major causes of multi-tasking. It also help us
scope on a small portion of work and get it done.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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all chew gum while walking, and most of us can drive a car and carry on a
conversation. But if we are lost in heavy traffic in an unfamiliar part of
town, then the radio goes off and the talking stops. If two tasks are performed
at once, then one of the tasks has to be familiar." </span></em></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 15pt;">-</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 15pt;"> </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #e31936; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 15pt; outline: none; padding: 0cm;"><a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/smart-parenting-smarter-kids/201107/can-kids-multitask" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); outline: none;" target="_blank">Sound Advice for Helping Kids Grow Smarter, Healthier and Happier,
by David Walsh, Ph.D.</a></span></div>
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</span></b><span style="color: #444444;">This will help you reduce the multi-tasking into scoped
and small practice outcomes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></b><span style="color: #444444;">What do you NEED to do? Stop and asses once in a while.
You can use the timeframe for that. When a Timeframe is up, the next bulk of
tasks can be placed for review and priority. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://%E2%80%9Cresearch%20has%20now%20shown%20that%20it%20is%20not%20the%20event%20itself%20that%20causes%20the%20emotional%20reaction%20but%20the%20automatic%20thoughts%20that%20run%20through%20our%20head%20in%20immediate%20response%20to%20the%20event%C2%A0%E2%80%9C/">“Research
has now shown that it is not the event itself that causes the emotional
reaction but the automatic thoughts that run through our head in immediate
response to the event “</a>(www.actionforhappiness.org). The way we
interpret reality dictates the way we feel, behave and react. When for example
we interpret an event as threatening we might attack or run away, we will
experience fear or anxiety, while someone else going through the same event
will not feel threatened at all. Our thinking is the Couse of our behavior and
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The <a href="http://iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/thoughts-cause-feelings-and-behaviours/">E.T.F.B</a>
Model</b><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><b><span dir="RTL"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span> </span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>(as I prefer calling it) is a common model used
for consulting, training, psychology, education and more. It is a behavioral
change technique enabling us to mold an interpretation of events and examine
alternative interpretations. By doing so, the model helps change perceptions,
feelings and reactions related to the event. It helps regain positive
perspectives and understands negative thinking causing us to react to events
the way we do. However, we can add some additional simple agile tools to this
model and take it one step forward into producing a continues change and making the results into
a habit. </b><b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After few years of almost forgetting this model existence I
ran into it again during one of my sun’s consulting sessions in grammar school.
I admit, the method caught me again as it caught me few years earlier. But this
time I felt that the way the consultant is using it does not exhaust the
potential of change that this wonderful technique has to offer. I felt we were
missing creating continues understanding and learning here. Using <a href="http://iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/thoughts-cause-feelings-and-behaviours/">E.T.F.B</a>
with just one event, identifying undesired behaviors here and there felt
limited to me<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before we get into explaining how we can use simple agile
tools to elevate this model into creating continues learning of new behavioral
patterns and reactions let's briefly review the <a href="http://iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/thoughts-cause-feelings-and-behaviours/">E.T.F.B</a>
model itself<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So , the <a href="http://iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/thoughts-cause-feelings-and-behaviours/">E.T.F.B</a>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <b style="text-align: right; text-indent: -0.25in;">1.<span style="font-weight: normal;">
</span></b><span dir="LTR" style="text-align: right; text-indent: -0.25in;"></span><b style="text-align: right; text-indent: -0.25in;">Understanding the
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happened in reality? What was the sequence of events?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the interpretation I gave to the event? What I said to myself during or after
the event? Whether the event was good, bad or neutral?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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feelings arose during the event? How I felt after? How long I felt that after
the event?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is important to notice that the source of the emotion is
the interpretation I gave to the event - not the event itself. My
interpretation is that created my emotions, and though my reaction (behavior).
It is important to produce this distinction before we offer alternative
interpretations to an event<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thoughts to the event</b> – (interpretations) and what response (behavior,
feeling) would it deliver.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s Not easy to change an interpretation or thoughts that are
ingrained in our way of thinking, in the events of the past or within our
values or messages we received from our environment<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A girl in my class said my shirt in ugly. So I hit her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another girl said my shirt is ugly, I gave her a kiss. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why? What's the difference? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What I was I thinking about when she told me what she
thought about my shirt? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What were my feelings in each event? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why did I feel different and I reacted differently from one
event to another? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And more ...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do we really expect a child, to know how to change patterns
of thinking and behavior after they practicing one or few events using the
model? Even with adults that will be difficult. I find it hard to believe in
one timers ,or even in a few I find their value limited. How can we take the
new thinking patterns into a continues thinking change and make the experience
a habit. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>If we take few agile tools into consideration when
applying <a href="http://iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/thoughts-cause-feelings-and-behaviours/">E.T.F.B</a>
method we can reach a wide range of alternative responses to events and though
elevate the <a href="http://iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/thoughts-cause-feelings-and-behaviours/">E.T.F.B</a>
expected outcomes.</b> The agile tools
are so simple, and yet they provide us as parents or professionals the ability
to make things happen. We are able to take Individual events into real and
continuous learning, we are able to instill change and habits and make it
stick. <a href="http://iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/thoughts-cause-feelings-and-behaviours/">E.T.F.B</a> model and the agile methods both using
cognitive terms and emphasize the need for change and the need to make things
happen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(<a href="http://iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/thoughts-cause-feelings-and-behaviours/">E.T.F.B</a>
is just one example of the way we can use cognitive tools combined with agile
tools and make the change a habit.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>So , how would <a href="http://iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/thoughts-cause-feelings-and-behaviours/">E.T.F.B</a>
look using agile? </b><b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Instead of running the <a href="http://iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/thoughts-cause-feelings-and-behaviours/">E.T.F.B</a>
model on a single event only, Our goal will be to relate to a series of small events
over a period of time. Those events are real and are directly related to
reality that the child faced, they are not imaginary events.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We will produce a visual “road of events” that contains a
collection of many (preferred small) events, lightweight, tough, simple or
complex events allowing simulating range of reactions.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each of those events will be set to the frame using the <a href="http://iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/thoughts-cause-feelings-and-behaviours/">E.T.F.B</a>
model<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This continues visibility of analyzed events will allow
identify different patterns of behaviors. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The intention is certainly not to highlight a problematic
event but to be able to see a pattern of many deferent events (good or bad)
that will allow dealing with. If necessary, we will focus on specific cases and
produce learning and patterns. We would like to be able to see the whole picture,
“walk” in the reality of events , experience events , learn from them ,
experience the next event, fix again and back again continuously . Though producing
continuous learning and growing habits of reactions to events.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How? Let’s say you wish to exercise this model with my child…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">1. Create </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">visibility</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">. Visualization
is key! - Visibility has the power to make things happen. When I see things,
there is a greater chance that I will bring them into my attention and response
to changes in the desired direction. Therefore, visualize the event path for
resolution using a simple task board.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the task board holds the events, it’s easier to “break
free” of them. I do not overload my memory with lots of events, resolutions, feelings,
thought, rather I can relate to them in one place, my task board. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span>So get your child a board and get him visualize the path of the event.<span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><br />
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</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>2. <b>Active versus passive</b>. The event owner is the Child that is required to respond to
an event, or to understand the event. The event owner should be active by
identified the events (physically – not only respond to questions). Ask him to
create the list of events he experienced on the board. He will be the one to
actively tack and record the steps of <a href="http://iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/thoughts-cause-feelings-and-behaviours/">E.T.F.B</a>
and the expected behavior. Not the teacher, not a grownup but the one who is
accountable and responsible for the change – meaning, the one that experienced
the events. The control moves physically to the event owner. <span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><br />
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</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>3. <b>Focused on events that occurred in the recent past</b>.
Last day for example. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. <b>A variety of options allows reference to diverse and
varied learning.</b> Make sure to have a verity of events on the board. Having
variety of events on the board, won’t highlight a child as problematic in one
area based on one event rather allow the child to experience positive reactions
and positive feedback. Make sure to visualize good and ”bad” events on the
board.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The board should records a collection of several events, collection
of some interpretations and some comments.<span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>5. <b>Communication- selects 1-2events each day</b>; 10 minute
conversation and practice to analyze an event. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TIP : start with simple events then move to the more though
ones. Gaining the ability to analyze using relatively simple events will
elevate the ability to analyze more complex and controversial events and
probably will add to the confidence of dealing with such more controversial
behaviors or reactions. <span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>6. <b>Continues improvement</b> – when we have a bunch of events
with feelings, reactions and behaviors all visible on the board, we can easily
learn from all of them regarding our habits or patterns of behaviors. In
addition, when we are dealing with events on a regular basis, we are able to
learn from today’s event. Implement it right away tomorrow, learn again and
then correct if necessary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Application</b> – Do not focus on the theory level of
learning. Get out there and experience new events and new suggestions for
changes. Implement the conclusions to the next event. Learning from a single
event without the application on other events with a short period of time
passes has limited and temporary value.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Set goals</b> – at the end of a 10minute discussion, set
short term goals, small steps of actions to take toward the next event, or the
next day and then reexamine those goals against the new events or reactions and
decide over the next actions to take. Reflect the change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For example if you tease me I'm going to be a “wall” (wall =
not responding, that wall cannot be offended, right?!) So I'll ask the owner of
the event to set his target to the next day or to the next event, such as: How
many times this week I think I can be a “wall”? 1, 2, 3? I will re-examine this
behavioral goal and the related reaction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7. <b>learn from mistakes</b> – small events, small steps of
improvements allows making small mistakes which can easily be identified and
dealt with. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes, challenge those mistakes and
learn new patterns of behaviors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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enjoy the journey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Further reading and references:<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.actionforhappiness.org/take-action/know-your-thoughts,-choose-your-actions">http://www.actionforhappiness.org/take-action/know-your-thoughts,-choose-your-actions</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affective_events_theory">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affective_events_theo</a><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/thoughts-cause-feelings-and-behaviours/">http://iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/thoughts-cause-feelings-and-behaviours/</a><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/situation_response_outcome.html">http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/situation_response_outcome.html</a><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.k6edu.com/4thgrade/social_studies/events-reactions-feelings.html">http://www.k6edu.com/4thgrade/social_studies/events-reactions-feelings.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mentalhealthinfoforall/treatments/cbt.aspx">http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mentalhealthinfoforall/treatments/cbt.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #222222; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0230752071?ie=UTF8&tag=httpricharcom-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=1634&creativeASIN=0230752071" target="_blank">Richard Wiseman's "Rip It Up."</a> - </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is kind of an
antithesis to "feelings form behaviour": Wiseman shows, based on good
scientific research, that it is the other way round very often: "behaviour
forms feelings". And he draws a lot of further conclusions and advice from
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What will be the right
size of a task so it will be easier to bring it into execution and action?<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span> </span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span>How can we size the
effort needed to get it done<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>? </span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span>And how do we know what is right for us compared to
someone else performing the same task<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kids (and adults)
often mistaken their ability to get things done while getting right into action
when encountering a problem or a task. Sometimes, they even are avoiding
getting into action due to the fact that the task seems to be too big or too
complicated to execute… I sometimes see kids getting to much homework that just
looking on the size of their “homework” tasks can be frightening. Who wouldn’t
prefer not to play outside instead of dealing with this giant homework
assignment? <b>Sizing those tasks has a lot to do with our ability to get them
done. It allows us to better scope our attention, better control our activities
related to a specific task and gain confident while getting those tasks done.</b>
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Much has been written
concerning the efforts estimation of a task and its relation to ease our
ability to execute it. As is commonly assumed (no matter if it is false or not)
that when we know how long it will take to complete a task or what the effort
entails it will be easier for us to understand when a group of tasks due to
complete. <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span> </span>It is often assumed the same
assumption about the size of a task or a problem<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I say, <b>When we know
what’s the right size of a task according to our <u>subjective</u> ability to
execute it, it will be easier to estimate a group of tasks and accordingly our ability
to get them done<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span></b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are many methods
that can be applied to understand a task size so it won’t be too big to deal
with or too small to even consider doing it and accordingly to get it done.<span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If so, how do we
balance the size of our tasks for ourselves or for a chield<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The answer, of course<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>. </span>It depends<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are some tips
which will help us better understand the subjective size of the task according
to subjective personal ability .<span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">One<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span></span></b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: #222222;"> </span><b><span style="color: #222222;">Create your task list and make sure it is
visible and apparent<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span></span></b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visibility makes
things happen<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>. </span>The Task list should not stay
in your head put it on the board<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>. </span>So
after seeing it, it gets easier to organize things and make decisions and
certainly easier to understand what takes more time or less time comparing to
other task<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">Two<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span></span></b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: #222222;"> </span><b><span style="color: #222222;">Size your tasks by three types of sizes<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>:</span></span></b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Small<span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Medium<span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Large<span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Extra large ** -
Optional but not advisable<span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">At this stage all we
want to achieve is the ability to visualize tasks in deferent sizes. It is still
one big wish lists of stuff we need to do or to achieve.</span></b><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: #222222;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span> </span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="color: #222222;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span style="color: #222222;">For better Visibility, create three columns on
the board and place each task under the appropriate column, or perhaps even
give a different color for each size. The main goal at this stage is that you will
be able to see the differences between tasks sizes<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remember when you were
a child, places seemed bigger and greater probably more than they are today<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>? </span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><b>This is how a
child sees tasks<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>. </span>Much larger
than they appear to us</b><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>. </span>Things
that seem small and simple to us can be perceived as very large and complicated
to children<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>. </span>Often because they lack
information or guidance, or just because that's how it is in their eyes<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><b>And yes, listening and asking
questions to understand the enormity of the task in the eyes of the child is
the next step we need to take<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is a small task <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>? </span>What is a big task <span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>? </span>What
makes it large<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">Four<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span></span></b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: #222222;"> </span><b><span style="color: #222222;">Once the most important tasks are on the task board,
take the large tasks and split them into smaller ones<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
Remember only small or medium sized tasks will be executed</span></b><span style="color: #222222;"> – so make sure to split those tasks to an executable
ones. Small task is one that can be completed in a relatively short period of time,
defiantly not in a week or a day, and obviously appropriate for a child time
frame.<span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the following
example<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">Five<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span></span></b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: #222222;"> </span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="color: #222222;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span style="color: #222222;">While executing the tasks <b>- stick to tasks
that are small or medium-sized and arrange your tasks in order of action<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span></b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">Six<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span></span></b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: #222222;"> </span><b><span style="color: #222222;">Select one task at a time and start to perform<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>. </span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span>Make sure to visualize
your path to execution as well (To do – Doing – Done) on the task board<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span></span></b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">Seven<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span></span></b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: #222222;"> </span><b><span style="color: #222222;">When a task is too large to execute, do not be
afraid to split I in to smaller ones<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span></span></b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">Eight<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span></span></b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: #222222;"> </span><b><span style="color: #222222;">Not every task must be sized<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>. </span>In
fact, most tasks do not required sizing<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span></span></b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Something is happening for
several years now in the high–tech industry. An evolution called<span dir="RTL"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span> </span></span>Agile. Agile is a working approach
that entered the high-tech world in around 2001. It entered into the day
to day activities of the industry employees and introduced an agenda of
working with simple tools that leverage their natural abilities, empowering
them and giving them motivation to continue to grow.<span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Tools
that have inspired, directed action that brings quality results.<span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>One of the growth engines
of this change is the ‘Agile coaching’ that Tangent to the life coaching,
professional coaching, business coaching or in fact any other coaching
method that leads to growth.<span dir="RTL"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">One of the biggest problems in high-tech is the astronomical cost - each project is costing a fortune,
every delay costs money and risking on losing potential customers or
business opportunities - sometimes bungling of such an opportunity could
cause the Company to fade completely<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<br />
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if it is that the programmer needs to deal with new operating systems, or
a parent that has to deal with changes in the needs of his children<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>"</span></span></strong><br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In addition, the
pace of technological change is one of the highest ever for the history of
the industry - techniques and methods which we experts only a year ago may no
longer justify themselves today<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></span>There is a constant need for learning new
things, standing at the forefront in technology and business<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>You
cannot even wait a few months to produce your products, you need to work
fast<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space">You need to</span> get use to change, and not
just get used to it, in order to survive in this industry you should embrace
change as a way of life, as your new reality<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Customers
are not waiting; they change their minds because their reality changes as
well. Manufacturers must recognize that and develop methods to get used to
the change<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in agile coaching is reducing these risks and teaching the agile teams’ new
ways to respond quickly to change, Improve </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">and
internalize practices that change rapidly<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>The
pace of change in the world is only growing<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>We'd
better get used to it<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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root of many coaching process - if it is the programmer that needs to deal
with new operating systems, or a parent that has to deal with changes in
the needs of his children and his role as a parent, or if we need to take
on a diet, quitting smoking, changing business dealing and so on<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Change and the human need to deal with, is universal<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span>As coaches we all recognize this need,
particularly the difficulty that our coachees , learn and understand what
they need to change , and mostly the need to preserve this change, so it
will not dissipate within a week and a month, but will become a habit of a
new life<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b>Which is exactly what agile
coaching does - helping coachees to change old habits effectively and
quickly, to leave the comfort zone and make a habit of dealing with the new
change<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span></b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">● <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Create constant<b> Heartbeat </b>Or constant pulse </span></u><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span dir="RTL"></span>- </span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span dir="LTR"></span> Agile teaches us to produce a pulse of
constant action - setting objectives, walking towards the goal immediately,
collecting feedback from the environment and learn from them and setting a
new destination<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span>And back again,
creating a uniform and constant ‘doing and reflecting’ rhythm. This type of
“Rotation" (of placing a goal – moving toward the goal – collecting
feedback - and a setting new target) is usually set to be from 1 week to
four weeks, while the tasks are relatively small - sometimes the whole process
takes an hour or even a few minutes<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The 'secret' that enables persistence over time is to maintain
a constant Heartbeat. A team that finds that it work for them with the
rhythm of the round of every two weeks, would be good if they continue with
the exact same rhythm over time<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span dir="LTR"></span> The
team should not be </span>tempted to "change the pace" - even if
there is pressure to finish something just in a week and a half<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Using Agile We have learned
that changing the rhythm of things is like changes in a human heart rate – the
price we pay in the long term is greater than the immediate shock that we
may make</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">●<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Visibility</span></u></b><span dir="RTL"></span><u><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span dir="RTL"></span> - </span></u><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Is
key</span></u><span dir="RTL"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span dir="RTL"></span> </span></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Things happen when you see them<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>We
will visualize all that stands in front of us and we will manage it<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space">In some cases we will place big whiteboards and
sticky notes that will</span> symbolize the road a head and the goals we
see and though create full transparency for ourselves and our friends to
the journey<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Using agile teaches how to reflect
clearly in a way that cannot be ignored-(processes, mindsets, priorities,
problems and solutions)<span dir="RTL"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span> </span></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Using
big visual boards<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>)
</span>Information Radiators) Has become commonplace in agile teams<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>You will not find them
looking at a computer screen, looking for a file with a list of tasks, but
standing together in front of a huge board on the wall, where you see the
tasks, failures, obstacles, strengths of the team and their shared vision<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span dir="LTR"></span> The entire team related
information is l</span>arge and clear for all to see, in an atmosphere of
trust, mutual support and joint motivation for action (Team Spirit).</span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In Agile personal coaching we use
similar tools to help the coachee manage the process of his transformation<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span>Using the board’s
visibility allows the change to become a sustainable habit over time<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">● <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></span><b><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Kaizen</span></u></b><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> - Routine of continuous
improvement </span></u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">- The
idea of continuous improvement is first of all, do it all the time, and in
small doses<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space">It i</span>s particularly effective when
adapting a routine or (the way we like to call it) a pulse, which we examine
our doing all time<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Agile holds a structured processes
called<span dir="RTL"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span> </span></span>Retrospective<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>- </span>This is
an hour of "coaching
session", held once a week / two weeks (depending on the rhythm of the
team), the session is run by a coach (or<span dir="RTL"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span> </span>by
a </span>Scrum Master). The purpose of the meeting is to allow the team -
together -to define goals and objectives of improvement – related to the
process of their work, interpersonal conduct, dealing with obstacles and
problems, and basically anything they see as contributing to or interferes
with their effective conduct together as a team<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In agile Personal coaching we also
employ similar methods to create a pulse of progress, improvement and
problem solving in the coachee<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Make
the improvement itself - a habit for life<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>. </span></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">● </span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><u><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></u></b><b><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Value
Focus-</span></u></b><span dir="RTL"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span dir="RTL"></span> </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Value as a motivator<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span> </span></span></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">– </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">in order for me to be able to
recognize the value generated for my own benefit, its best that I will
embrace an approach of which I think of myself as a customer that his money
is important to him and his quality requirements are high, and also think
about myself as a provider, and provide myself the best service I can<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A very important agile principle
is placing myself in my client's shoes (as a product manager or as someone
that is responsible in any way to provide a service)<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>This
allows us to think like a customer and make decisions - sometimes not easy
decisions – that will ultimately serve the customer, and will allow us to
deal better with pressures directed against us from management, other
stakeholders, and most importantly - ourselves<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></span>Agile </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">developed structured tools and
techniques to define customer needs from the perspective of the customer
himself<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> Sometimes (and highly recommended to
do it as a routine ) we will seek our customer real feedback.<span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In agile personal coaching we apply the same principle -we
Identify the true value for the coachee in every decision or in any
progress direction, in order to get to the bottom of it (and quickly), and
realize what the coachee really want and need in life<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">● <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Baby Steps</span></u></b><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">
- walk in small steps </span></u><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span dir="RTL"></span> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>-</b></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Smaller is easier to control, easier to make a mistake and
easier to fix<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In our experience, Effective change and the ability to make
things happen<span dir="RTL"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span>- Better be happening gradually and
Incrementally. Using Feedback Loop will allow a proper understanding of the
events in the changing reality<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">An agile Heartbeat (mentioned above), in small doses produces
the ability to cope with changes, react to them and learn<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span>This pulse, in small doses, creates a
flow of action, and routine, but a kind of routine that creates special
feeling of success<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Once we get used to it,
this routine will become a part of us and embrace the change as a habit<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">● <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I am my own<span dir="RTL"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span> </span></span>organizer
and director</span></u><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span dir="RTL"></span>, </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">and I learn to do it well even after
the coaching is long over and not just as part of a coaching period<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The concept of self-management and self-organization<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"><span dir="RTL"></span> </span>Is fundamental in
agile<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span> -<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></span>It
enables employee empowerment, allowing him to discover and invent for himself
the best way he could function. <span dir="RTL"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span> </span></span>It's
not as simple as it sounds - it is necessary to create supporting
frameworks and set clear boundaries. The role of the manager is turning at
180 degrees here – from a manager that decides for his employees their tasks
to a manager that defines responsibilities, supports, protects workers
against interference and allows them to maximize their abilities (Servant
Leadership)<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The principle of self-organization, decision making and taking
responsibility for them and for your own actions (both over the successes
and over the failures) - is also an essential part of the agile personal coaching
– it’s the accountability and responsibility the coachee in the coaching
process, to his own life and those around him<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">There is so much more to write about agile ... so much<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span> ....<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>There is an entire
infrastructure in the heart of the agile practices that ultimately enables
action and constant growth, <span dir="RTL"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span> </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span>Continuous
improvement in work habits and life<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">So what's next<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>?</span></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">We wish to take the knowledge,
methods and concepts of agile into the world of personal coaching – we
initiated a project called Jelly – agile coaching<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>This
is the first article in the series<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">And best of all<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span> ..<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Do
not forget to enjoy the way - it's also one of the most important agile principles<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>**<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Shirly Ronen Harel and Avi
Naparstek - both personal trainers and activists for many years in the high-tech
industry<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span>Members of the<span dir="RTL"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span> </span></span>Agile Life group <span dir="RTL"></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span> </span></span>Whose
goal is to take the agile into other areas of life (education, art,
society, etc.) and project partners Jelly - Agile coaching- designed to
bring the world of agile into the personal coaching area<span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><span dir="RTL"></span>.</span></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s not enough to set personal goals and objectives, even if they are targeted
at what I really want to reach in life. It’s also not enough to set out on our
journey based only on our vision. One of the most important things is to
understand what I have that will help me succeed and what I should avoid. And
that is also not always enough. For most
of us, it’s not easy to distinguish between our internal means and obstacles
and the external, environmental powers that have potential to help us grow or
get in our way. And more so, it’s important to align internal and external
forces to help us get things done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This distinction, the ability to see all the pieces of the puzzle
and deduce a course of action is what the SWOT tool enables. In fact, with SWOT
as a preliminary tool and some agile guidelines, achieving our personal objectives can
become quite a simple task.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what is SWOT?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>SWOT is another of many tools
that lets us discover our strengths and abilities. It is used by organizations
around the world to asses strategic decisions, organizational capabilities,
possible directions, products and more.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let’s take a look at the SWOT definition from Wikipedia:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #333333;">"</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span dir="LTR" style="color: #333333;">S</span></b><span dir="LTR" style="color: #333333;">trength</span><span dir="LTR" style="color: #333333;"> <b>W</b></span><span dir="LTR" style="color: #333333;">eaknesses</span><span dir="LTR" style="color: #333333;"> <b>O</b></span><span dir="LTR" style="color: #333333;">pportunities</span><span dir="LTR" style="color: #333333;"> <b>
T</b></span><span dir="LTR" style="color: #333333;">hreats</span><span dir="LTR" style="color: #333333;"> </span><span dir="LTR"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 120%;">SWOT analysis aim to identify the
key internal and external factors seen as important to achieving an objective.
The factors come from within a company's unique </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_chain"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;">value chain</span></a><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0b0080; line-height: 120%;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 120%;">SWOT analysis groups key pieces of
information into two main categories:</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><u><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;">Internal
factors</span></u><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"> – the <i>strengths</i> and <i>weaknesses</i>
internal to the organization</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><u><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;">External
factors</span></u><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"> – the <i>opportunities</i> and <i>threats</i>
presented by the environment external to the organization</span><span style="line-height: 102%;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="line-height: 15.555556297302246px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;">" </span></b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis" style="line-height: 102%; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 102%;">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SWOT is not limited for use by business organizations. This wonderful
tool can be used on a personal and team level as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So the benefits of SWOT are that it can take all the factors - internal
and external, positive and negative - and use them to help us focus on a
realistic plan to achieve our goals.</span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So let’s get started:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1. Our initial assumption is
that we have a vision or end-goal we want to reach.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>2. Creating the famous SWOT
matrix:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Draw it on a sheet of paper, or better yet on a whiteboard - and place
it somewhere that will be visible to you most of the time (maybe on the
refrigerator, or on a wall in the living room, or on the billboard in your
study?)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is what it looks like:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>3. Understanding: I’ll ask
myself questions relating to my end-goal or vision.</b> I’ll write the answers
on post-its and stick them in the proper quadrant of my SWOT board.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first part is questions about me - S, W<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* <b><span style="color: red;">S</span></b>: Regarding my vision, what
are my strengths? What makes me unique and advantageous in this event? Is it
knowledge? Experience? Good physical condition, money, family support? etc...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* <b><span style="color: red;">W</span></b>: Regarding my vision, what
are my weaknesses? What do I lack that I need to go forth, that originates from
me? Lack of experience? Lack of knowledge? Low self-esteem? Lack of family
support? etc...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The second part contains questions about my external surroundings - O,
T<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* <b><span style="color: red;">O</span></b>: Regarding my vision, what opportunities
exist? Is there a specific job opening that just opened up? Political
situation? Family? Financial? etc..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* <b><span style="color: red;">T</span></b>: regarding my vision, what
threats may there be? What will hold me back? Is it starting from lower
position? Income? Residents?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">** it is recommended that you take those questions and get some
feedback from your soundings. Show them your SWOT and ask them what they would
say about you regarding these questions. I know it’s its not that easy, but
true outside feedback is something very important. It gives a different point of
view over the issues at stake for me. And you may be surprise how others see
your strengths , weaknesses and how they related to threats that may be
different from what you initially thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">**few words on <a href="http://agileandfamily.blogspot.co.il/2013/06/visual-thinking-what-is-it.html" target="_blank">visibility</a>: the probability to get things done increase
when I see the things I need to do. When I see it, I can relate to it, I can
relate to it more often and it will probably catch my attention more than other
things around. If you really want to take SWOT from theory to action, make it
visible. leave out the pen and paper and take it to the level where it is
visible where you most needs to see it.</span></div>
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to understand how we can use our internal straights toward achieving our
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So.. let’s ask them:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and take advantage over the opportunities in my journey toward achieving my
vision?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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my straights so I can reduce the threat?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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weaknesses will not hold me back from the opportunities ahead?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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threats and weaknesses so they will less influence me in my journey towards my
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learned in the previous steps, Create a list of all the tasks, goals you need to
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A good execution may be that we take one or two actions, examine them
in our day to day reality and then go back to the SWOT and see if something has
changed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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not a judgmental tool. It is a personal and subjective tool therefore, it is
highly important that the SWOT owner will understand his board as it reflects his
own subjective reality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sure you see what you need to do and where you‘re at. Place the SWOT board in a
location where you can relate to it frequently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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onetime evaluation tool, make sure to revisit your SWOT and change it
accordingly. Did I gain some more straights? Do I have new opportunities? Did I
eliminate threats? Improvement will happen when we will create the routine of
continues change and continues improvement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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execution actions according to their highest value for you. There is no need to
take to action all the SWOT tasks at once.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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at a time. Sometimes it’s enough to understand something “just enough” and
start executing, instead of examining endless options and sides of the same
situation. Anyway, the most important feedback will start flowing once you
start executing your actions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you’ve taken to
execute an action related to weaknesses or straights, start small. Small tasks are
easy to get done, easier to get feedback, has a good impact over the feeling of
success and achievement and..if you fail, you fail small.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Consulting"</span></a><span style="background: white; mso-highlight: white;">. <i>SRI Alumni Newsletter</i> (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRI_International"><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080; mso-highlight: white;">SRI International</span></a><span style="background: white; mso-highlight: white;">).</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My most effective time to get things done<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beyond the fact that I hold a backlog including all those
tasks I need to do, I do need to get them done in the most effective and
efficient way. With all other things I need to consider and plan I also need to
pay attention to the timing of those tasks. After all, there are tasks that are
bounded by time. For instance, what good it will do to brush my teeth and then
eat a good meal just before going to bed and not the other way around? <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As part of the agile method and especially when implementing
scrum, we are used to stop at the end of every sprint (iteration), look ahead
and plan our coming sprint tasks. This is also a good opportunity to take a
look at those tasks timing and reflect over the best time to execute them. There
may be a verity of reasons to execute tasks in a specific time frame or
another, after all each of us holds different goals, tasks and time
considerations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As in any new techniques, we don’t have to start using it if
we have no problem executing our tasks. It really aims to those tasks that
needs a special timing consideration such as :
an outstanding bunch of tasks; Tasks that require a special
concentration; Tasks that holds dependencies to other tasks; Tasks that holds
progress from other activities and many more…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All you have to do is:</span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;"></b><br />
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<li><b style="text-indent: -18pt;">Look ahead and identify
those most effective time frames</b><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"> (according to the task time, urgency, needs,
time frame limitations, priority…)</span></li>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ask yourself, what are my best
weekdays to perform those tasks? What is my best time of day to perform those
tasks?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It may happen that in each week there are different time and
week days to perform the same tasks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe you are a morning/night person? So there are types of
tasks that demand a high level of concentration that you want to perform at
this time frame only.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Will it be easier to address emails at the beginning of my
working day or at the end of it? Maybe both? Or maybe if I just take few thin slices
of time during the day to cover the accumulating amount of emails and messages will
be the best timing for this task? (BTW , the last one is my favorite)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are tasks that weekdays and day time will enforce our
timing, such as…the best time to work with my sun over his final class
assignment will be the weekend. Or , the
best time to walk the dog is in the morning, otherwise…</span><br />
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<li><b style="text-indent: -18pt;">The next step will
be to Create visibility to those most effective hours.</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A task board with special time zones may be great, or tasks divided
according to weekdays and more…</span></li>
<li><b style="text-indent: -18pt;">Act accordingly.</b></li>
<li><b style="text-indent: -18pt;">Make sure to
retrospect over the effective and efficient of the performance of those tasks
according to the time frame set. </b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt;">If needed, change it.</span></li>
<li><b style="text-indent: -18pt;">And as always, don’t
forget to have fun.</b></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lets take a look at few examples I have gathered: <span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A father that marks
Wednesdays in his calendar as the best days to spend some time with his kids.
Obvious, right!?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Keep in mind that this visualization not only
acts as a good reminder but also creates a level of commitment to this type of
task.<span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;">The clock- the clock
creates a good understanding over the time we</span><span dir="RTL" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"></span><span dir="RTL" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;">may or may not
perform a specific task. These can be used for homework tasks, play hours and
more….</span></div>
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a time frame where I produce the most value during the day. Therefore, I will
target my tasks to these hours.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It may be that my type of work is such that I
would prefer doing the ”paper work” early in the morning, and the coaching
stuff, meeting and face to face communication later on intothe day when other
people are around.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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showing Light and Time of Day. What's the best time of day to go</span><span style="background-color: #333333; color: #cccccc; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;">painting
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When is the right time to publish one of my blog posts?
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Sunday when no one from my American readers is on the web,
or on Friday when no one of my Israeli readers is on the web?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span dir="LTR"><a href="http://readwrite.com/2012/01/27/whens_the_best_time_to_blog_share">http://readwrite.com/2012/01/27/whens_the_best_time_to_blog_share</a></span><span lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s continues improvement aimed meeting, taken place at
the end of each sprint. Helping the team to improve their performance
effectives and efficiency</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (</span><a href="http://qconlondon.com/london-2012/presentation/Effective%20Retrospective" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://qconlondon.com/london-2012/presentation/Effective%20Retrospective</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. We look back as a team, learning from what
we did wrong and how to improve in the future. And learning from what we did well
and how to recreate it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is, in my opinion, one of the most important sessions
to take place as part of the agile rituals that lead us to continuous
improvement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don’t skip this session! <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why ?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because it’s a learning meeting. We Communicate our
performance on a regular basis (end of each sprint) we retrospect over our
performance and pick action for next sprint.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">** Just before we continue , please note, I will be using
the term “team” as a general reference , but, you may apply this to family members,
classmates, teachers group and any other form of ‘team’ with common goals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why retrospective?<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>Because improvement does
not come alone. Having a heart beat of
improvement sessions will take us forward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>Because we if want to
constantly improve we need to have this <u>official</u>
place and time, and it goes without saying that talking about our performance
is what we naturally do, Regardless our results. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>Because continues
improvement and learning can come only when we are set to reflect over our
performance, effectiveness and efficiency. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>Each team member sees
things differently, if we wish to improve as a team we need to get everyone’s
opinion to the context of the team.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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session, the team will probably continue to make the same mistakes all over
again and the improvement items will be randomly, based on crisis and the rate of
improvement will be lower than it can get.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who attends the retrospective?<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Team members only! Those who have tasks on the board. Pigs ,
remember?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Managers are not allowed. Why? Because it’s a self-organized
team, remember ? Because the team should
be accountable for its performance, therefore accountable for the improvements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The team will decide whether to share or not retrospective
items.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The scrum master can conduct the meeting few first times , but later on it is
recommended that The team will conduct the meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Things that should take place during the
retrospective:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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retrospective is an open discussion<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #2bf52b;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What were our successes
“+” , or things we wish to improve “_”<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The session should take place at a time when it’s convenient
to chat, in a sharing atmosphere. Each team member should feel entitled to
comment and contribute to the session and to the three questions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We sometimes encountered people who avoid this session with
various excuses, such as “we don’t have time for yet another meeting”,” we
don’t want to share our thoughts and feelings with others”, and so on. Team
members may be afraid to share their thoughts and opinions, especially if the managers
are very 'command and control', ordering team members around and managing the team
tasks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two types of retrospective as important to mention:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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oriented retrospective</b>, which is aimed to talk about a specific issue. For
example – our relationships as a team with our interfaces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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call as <b>“free hand” retrospective</b>
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over issues bothers the team , and from there the discussion will scope over
the most important issues that the team thinks needs discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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all feel comfortable. Don’t take it outside, at least not at the first times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>Set the ground rules: for example:
everybody can talk , we are here to share our view, don’t interrupt when one
team member is talking and more…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As usual, the format may vary, and you<b> can employ more creative
methods than just conversation or writing tasks down on sticky notes. </b>Here are few examples: <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>One team member will review
the weekly tasks. Preferred to be the scrum master Along with the rest of the team,
the scrum master will summarize the sprint: main events, achievement, outcomes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>Each team member says, in
his turn, what he thought of the sprint, what can be done better, what we
should keep on doing and what we should we start doing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>One team member needs to
summarize what the team says. This shows that we are taking the session and the
things the team members are saying seriously. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>Pick a few tasks (not many)
for preservation, changing, or to start doing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>Assign a team member to
each task. His role will be to follow this task and make sure we discuss this
task in the daily family gathering.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">●<span style="line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>All team members are
committed to the retrospective tasks and outcomes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>In each retrospective
session, bring up the outcomes and progress of the previous session’s action
items. You may even choose to bring up the previous tasks as something we may
want to deal with in our next sprint.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Example 2:<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></u></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.<span style="line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>Draw three columns on a
white board or piece of paper: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">●<span style="line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>Things we would like to
keep on doing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">●<span style="line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>Things we would like to
stop doing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">●<span style="line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>Things we would like to
continue doing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.<span style="line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>Pass around sticky notes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.<span style="line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>Each team member writes
down issues and adds them to the appropriate column. Don’t comment or criticize
team members over issues they add to the board.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.<span style="line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>Once all finished, the team
chooses the first team member to go to the board and make his case. Explain
that you should start off with the positive things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5.<span style="line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>When a team member finds
that another team member wrote the same thing he did, he may approach the board
add his sticky note together with the one presented.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6.<span style="line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>When a team member start
presenting the issues he thinks requires improvement, start asking questions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7.<span style="line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>We now have a good overview
of the issues that occupied our mind during the last sprint. We also know what
are the most important issues we need to improve, as we listened to all the team
members' opinions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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obvious as it sounds. By choosing the important tasks, we find out what the
other family members are thinking. We may find out that there are specific
issues that bother more than one family member, and we can focus on those for
improvement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Agile hold a minimum set of values and principles,
following them, will allow taking the agile almost anywhere.</b> <b>Once we get
the grip of that, we can implement agile, its tools and mindset almost for
anything.</b><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><b><span dir="RTL"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span> </span>Only fine tuning and modifications
will be required.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Post takeaways:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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your own context<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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family context<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First, Let’s dive in to the original agile values.<span dir="RTL" lang="HE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Agile is an empirical process based on the principles of
delivering working items and continues improve by continues adopting an
awareness to problems and solving them within. It is a method of adapting to
complex and constantly changed systems. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Agile is not one methodology, it’s actually a set of tools,
values, principles, a collection of mindset beliefs that helps getting things
done. In agile, like in agile, you can never implement the exact same framework
in two organization. You will always need to adjust, be agile, and refine your
activities and tool. This is because agile relays on people and effectiveness
of processes and each group of people so deferent, even if they are
manufacturing the same product.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Agile is Based on the mindset and psychological aspect, where
teams are self-organizing and self-directed. It holds more than just few
mindsets approaches related to empowered individuals, self motivate individuals
and Creativity and innovation are highly appreciated and encouraged. When those
individuals are part of a group with a common goals (let’s say, school for
example) the agile method proves to get things done faster than any other
method; the agile method will also facilitate the grows of the group and
individuals within and though grow the outcome of a group for better
performance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s a way to improve and get things done. It’s a light
designed frame work, easy to adapt even in partial aspects, where all of these
can happen regardless the type of area of which we wish to evolve to agile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The agile software development manifesto. <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Initially, the agile as a method and its values and the
principles behind it were mostly fit to the IT and software engineering
industry. You can find them all here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html">http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lets dive into them a bit and reappear back and see how we
can take those into “everyone’s” world <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> “We
are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping
others do it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through this work we have come to
value:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Individuals and interactions</b> over processes and
tools”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We believe that effective communication
may drive a group of people toward better efficient and effective performance.
We employ a vast set of communication tools to make sure it happens, and we
demand the same from team members and management.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We believe that face to face communication
is a key for success. We believe that using frequent communication is even
better. And we make sure direct communication is kept as a key using various
tools such as a daily standup meeting, retrospective, talking about planning,
visualizing our work to our team members and stakeholders. And we prefer doing
that face to face over communicating using several of tools. It’s just doesn’t
work when we have so many mediators (phone, applications, reports). After all
we are people, working together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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communication that leads to trust<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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decisions, toward impediments<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We strive to coach and lead
individuals and group to follow the communication set of behaviors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For example, isn’t it better for a
teacher to hold a close communication with a child parent then keep all her
feedback to the last moment before giving the grade? Isn’t it easier to get
early feedback from the teacher, besides only via a tool (grade) and then get
the opportunity for early improvement and early feedback once again? After all,
we all know the grade are just a tool, there is a lot going on beyond the
grades.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inset it better to talk to the
teacher then get her feedback via email? Wouldn’t it give us the opportunity to
react, and get feedback?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“<b>Working software</b> over
comprehensive documentation”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is our deliverables.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> We deliver working outcome as set of intervals
each holding a value. Instead of long month of planning, design, developing and
testing an entire system, we do this more frequent, with smaller portions and
each portion is a working software.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We make sure everything we do that
we want to deliver holds its definition of done. Meaning, what will make this
task complete.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In order to deliver something bit
that works, we believe that dividing it to smaller portions that each works and
holds a value is better than building in parallel many parts and try to shamble
them at the end. The effort to build it up , correct and change is huge
, sometime needs getting back to the core developed framework , the
amount of errs are out of control. The feedback is sometimes too late and the
changes will be build ad plasters over a non working product.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a mindset change statement.
It allows as at early staged give and get early feedback over our work. And we should
be open to that feedback.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lets say , we are building a car ,
so we better not check at the last moment that the wheel is working as part of
assembling and testing the entire product. We will probably build the wheel as
a separate mechanism, test it (reuse it), then connect it to other working items
such as the wheels and retest them. Errs will the be easy to detect and solve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“<b>Customer collaboration</b> over
contract negotiation”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Collaborating with our stakeholders<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the stakeholder is involved, he
feels more in control, anxiety reduced and communication flows better. We don’t
have to wait a long period of time till the end of a project finding out we
didn’t develop what the customer wanted. And, god, how often did this happen?!
Almost 90% of the times!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We need to have the ability for early
feedback.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In school as an example, I tend to
consider the teachers as the principle customer and vice versa. Therefore,
sharing your plans and outcomes in an early stage, while at the same time having
a hart bit of healthy feedback may empower the entire system toward better
ideas, better cooperation and better performance. Everyone feels they have a
share. And agile does exactly that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“<b>Responding
to change</b> over following a plan”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We leave in a very small world,
communication is faster and changes are all over. In the industry of software
development change is a reality. And we may better understand it and adapt. It’s
not only that the technology is changing all around, it’s also our need to
develop over these technology frameworks (such as develop over iphone , tablet,
PC , Mac) it’s also the frequent of changes in what we develop may change. People
may also change their priority for variety of reasons , especially customers.
People are not born to forecast the future (well at least most of us), so it
may be that we want something develop today and change our mind in few weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Agile holds a set of rules and behaviors
allowing us better to react to the changing environment , weather with hard strict
rules (“The sprint is the team safe zone”) or with soft skills supplied (frequent
communication) or tools (standup meeting).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Same goes to all of us, the non
software world residents. We need to embrace change first, acknowledge that
changes are fact of life, and embrace the tools that will allow us better
accept a change and grow to take advantage out of it.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We may hold a yearlong curriculum plan
for our class, but then comes an event , that make us change. We want to be
able to embrace change, understand the we are working according to the value of
each deliverable holds and we may leave a side other deliverable and artifacts
as a result of a change. We are not expected to toe everything at once , but we
are expected to be agile enough to leave in this fast changed reality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That is, while there is value in the
items on the right, we value the items on the left more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The software development Principles
behind the Agile Manifesto<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These reflecting the values above in a more
practical sense.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b>We
follow these principles:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.
<!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>Our highest priority is to <b>satisfy
the customer</b> through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. <!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Welcome
changing</b>
requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change
for the customer's competitive advantage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. <!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Deliver
working software</b>
frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference
to the shorter timescale.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. <!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Business
people and developers must work together</b> daily throughout the project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. <!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Build
projects around motivated individuals</b>. Give them the environment and
support they need, and trust them to get the job done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. <!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>The
most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within
a development team is <b>face-to-face conversation</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7. <!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Working
software</b>
is the primary measure of progress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8. <!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>Agile
processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and
users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9. <!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>Continuous
attention to technical <b>excellence</b> and good design enhances agility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10. <!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Simplicity</b>--the art of
maximizing the amount of work not done--is essential.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11. <!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>The
best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing
teams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12.
<!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><b>At regular intervals, the team reflects
on how to become more effective</b>, then tunes and adjusts its
behavior accordingly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd997578.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd997578.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ambysoft.com/essays/agileManifesto.html">http://www.ambysoft.com/essays/agileManifesto.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The first thing will be to try and understand those
values and principles to fit to a more common ground then just software.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Remember: these are not lip service, we need to understand
each of them and follow them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, mainly when taking it to the common ground of practice
agile principles are about:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><i><b>Individuals and interactions over
process and tools</b></i></u>
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Communication is a key , we can’t skip
it. We live in a world of constant and fast communication using tools. Face to
face communication cannot be skipped and its proven to be effective than any
other tool.<br />
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<!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b><i>Getting things done over measures of
behaviors</i></b></u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stop concentrating over measures, grades.
It’s not that it is not important, rather than it should not be the scope of
evaluating yourself. Achieving a true progress a long with mindset change is
the true goal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We better deliver 100% of 80% then 80% of 100% , its better to stick to the important then
just do things we don’t need; understanding what is important is an art. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Stakeholder’s collaboration over lack
of feedback </i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Involve others that have interest, get
early feedback. Its always better to do small mistakes then big last minute big
mistakes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
<b><i><u>Responding
to change over following a plan</u></i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Changes are part of our day to day
activities; we better accept it and adapt to change all the time. Changing I a
potential for growth; staying in one place will get you stuck. Change and adapt
all the time <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Self organization leads to prosperity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Take decisions; Fail; Learn to grow for
your mistakes; is a key to success<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then, the next step should be, to try and fit those
values to the one , you are trying to
evolve to agile.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For examples, when we came to implement the agile into a
family and with kids , we initially defined some of our values as guidelines:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i><u>The Agile@Home Values and principles: </u></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Wyxt-ipp4ag/UlVGiCCusyI/AAAAAAAADAQ/TGB5haiCcCw/s1600/agile+at+home.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="264" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Wyxt-ipp4ag/UlVGiCCusyI/AAAAAAAADAQ/TGB5haiCcCw/s640/agile+at+home.png" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="color: #4e3b30; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e3b30; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That is, while there is value in
the items on the right, we value the items on the left more<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also took the principles behind the values and translated
them to what we believe in to be our agile way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1.
<!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>Our highest priority is our
family and our children. Our children go through childhood once, and we are the
ones responsible for it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2.
<!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>We believe that the parent
is the key to family growth and should be coached to be the role model for any
required changes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3.
<!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>The family <b><u>must work
together</u></b> as a team in order to enhance its communication, achievements
and abilities, including the children regardless of their age.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4.
<!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>Investing constantly in our
family, even for brief periods of time and regardless of negative or positive
events, will bring about good results.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5.
<!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>The parents must supply the
family with the right tools to succeed, and trust them that they will know best
how to use them for their needs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6.
<!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><b>We believe that face to
face communication is the most effective form of communication.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7.
<!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>The most effective family
empowerment and growth will come from the ability of parents and children to
have an open dialog.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8.
<!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><b>Simplicity is an art</b>.
Dividing big issues into small chunks will bring the best results. Doing 'just
enough' from these chunks will bring about the best results. An effective
change is one that is done gradually, so it is quantifiable and manageable in
real time, while at the same time the entire family is responsible for the
change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9.
<!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>The best outcomes come from
children and families that manage themselves effectively.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10. <!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>we believe that enhancing one’s strengths also enhances his
weaknesses. Therefore we prefer to focus on the strong and positive over the
weak and negative.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11. <!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>We believe that all family members must evaluate their actions
constantly, not just when a crisis emerges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12. <!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>Visibility and openness is the key to family empowerment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">13. <!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span>We believe that fun, rather than ‘serious’ takes us further.
Therefore, we will make sure that everything we do will involve the element of
fun, although we will insist on making it fit to the spirit of the events.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s that obvious!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m amazed at how easily it translates to education if you
are applying scrum in schools for example:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have encountered this article of a very talented teacher stating the agile values as he sees
fir to the education arena (contact him)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">About the Author<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.ttms.org/steve_peha/steve_peha.htm"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-no-proof: no; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Steve Peha</span></a> is
the President of <a href="https://www.ttms.org/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Teaching That Makes Sense</span></a>,
an education consultancy in Carrboro, NC specializing in literacy, assessment,
and school leadership. Since 1995, he has taught in thousands of classrooms and
hundreds of schools across the United States and Canada. Prior to that he was a
software entrepreneur<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><br /></i></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: windowtext;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><u>The Twelve
Principles of Agile Schools</u></i><span style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We follow these
principles:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our highest priority is to satisfy the needs of children
and their families through early and continuous delivery of meaningful
learning.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Welcome changing requirements, even late in a learning
cycle. Harness change for the benefit of children and their families.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Deliver meaningful learning frequently, from a couple of
days to a couple of weeks, with a preference to the shorter timescale.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">School and family team members work together daily to
create learning opportunities for all participants.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them
the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The most efficient and effective method of conveying
information to and within a team is face-to-face conversation.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meaningful learning is the primary measure of progress.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our processes promote sustainability. Educators,
students, and families should be able to maintain a constant pace
indefinitely.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Continuous attention to technical excellence and good
design enhances adaptability.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Simplicity-the art of maximizing the amount of work not
done-is essential.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The best ideas and initiatives emerge from
self-organizing teams.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At regular intervals, teams reflect on how to become
more effective, then tune and adjust their behavior accordingly.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here again, we find
a blueprint for better schooling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now it’s your turn:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Individuals and interactions over
process and tools
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Getting things done over measures of
behaviors<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">……..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Steak holder’s collaboration over lack
of feedback <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">……..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Responding
to change over following a plan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Self organization leads to prosperity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">…….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our highest priority is ….<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Welcome changing ……..<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Deliver meaningful …...<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">…….. Team members work together daily ……..<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Build projects around motivated individuals……….<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">face-to-face communication is………<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meaningful outcome
is the primary measure of progress….<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Constantly invest in….<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Continues improvement is……<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Simplicity-the
art of maximizing the amount of work not done-is essential…..<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The best ideas and initiatives emerge from
self-organizing teams.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Simplicity is an art</b>…Dividing
big issues into small chunks will bring the best results. …<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The best outcomes come from ….. that
manage themselves effectively.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visibility and openness is the key
…...<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We believe that fun, rather than
‘serious’ takes us further……<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And more……<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="http://vimeo.com/75500464"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Lego calendar by Vitamins</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> is another neat way to track your time, tasks
and appointment. Here it is: </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The Lego calendar is a wall mounted time planner that we
invented for our studio. It’s made entirely of Lego, but if you take a photo of
it with a smartphone all of the events and timings will be magically
synchronised to an online, digital calendar. It makes the most of the
tangibility of physical objects, and the ubiquity of digital platforms, and
it’s also puts a smile on our faces when we use it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more info visit <a href="http://vitaminsdesign.com/projects/lego-calendar/" target="_blank">vitaminsdesign.com/projects/lego-calendar/</a></span></div>
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/75500464" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe> <br />
<a href="http://vimeo.com/75500464">Lego calendar by Vitamins</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/vitamins">Vitamins</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
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