Cold Reading - I can know all about you and you R the one letting me.

Cold reading is the ability to gain information about someone without that person realizing that they are actually giving up the information themselves. Its  where a complete stranger can tell you lots about yourself without being psychic. Their relay on few techniques and tricks reveals all about you and it’s not really clever.  Some consider it as fraud Knowing those techniques may help you identify the fraud .

Why You So Often Ignore Great Advice?

Sometimes, it’s when we need the advice the most that we latch onto our old beliefs and hold on tight. Sometimes we reject the advice while rationalizing our way to keeping our current views strong. Why don’t we want to improve? 

Don’t we want to succeed? 

Don’t we want to learn from other experience and save some ourselves some truly horrible mistakes?

Why does it happen? 

Here are some of them. But (and there’s a BUT) there are also good reasons not to accept advice.

Poka-yoke (ポカヨケ?) -prevents avoidable mistakes from occurring

POKA- ‘Inadvertent mistake that anyone can make’ and YOKE- ‘To prevent or proof’ . 

Poka-yoke deals with understanding why people make errors and how to analyze the process to know where errors are likely to occur. Poka-yoke detect errors at their roots n prevent them from blowing up to become bigger problems.it  saves the cost and time spent in quality inspection processes and increase quality.  It can be implemented at any step of a process where something can go wrong or an error can be made and everywhere if it is in hospitals or even in the home.

Value cards activities

“Working through a values clarification exercise with your clients can be incredibly powerful.  Values help with identifying what goals are worthwhile moving towards and can promote a willingness to accept discomfort when working towards such goals. “ The Values Cards can assist individuals, couples, teams and organisations to explore what is truly important in life, their relationships or work. This exploration can help clarify core values and inspire positive changes.” Here are some activities with value cards.Enjoy.

Listen to your Guilt and Shame –you can use them to your benefit

Both guilt and shame are important social factors. As such, both are intrinsically tied to social situations. Our ideas about guilt and shame (what is right and wrong) come from social situations. And so does the way we can deal with it. There are ways to reduce guilt and shame, and there are also ways we can use them to our benefit. We can listen to our shame and use our guilt. The guilt we experienced can push us toward change. 

Banishing Workplace Blame

A culture of blame can create a very difficult work environment; it harms motivation, allow strong deviation from value goals and reduces productivity. To boost performance, companies might want to keep blaming others to a minimum. What can we do to stop blaming? Well, part of it is adopting an agile mindset. Using regular retrospection, small steps, small mistakes, and demo’s. Working together as a team on team issues, dealing with issues that went wrong as a team allow dealing with blame and taking it into actionable terms.

ESVP retrospective - Getting a mood reading

A crucial element for retrospective success is the attitude and feelings of the participants to the meeting in which they are required to attend. EVSP activity (Explorer-Shopper-Vacationer-Prisoner) is an ice breaker. The purpose of the EVSP activity is to help understand people’s attitudes to the retrospective and though to help focus on the work of the retrospective. Here it is…

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Customer Centricity - Meet customer needs.

Advances in technology and communication, explosive growth in information, have given rise to a more empowered demanding global consumer. Customer needs should be meet more than ever.  But This does not mean doing everything customers want.  Customer Collaboration is a key principle of Agile, but is often ignored or given limited time and focus.  Companies using Agile offer a variety of benefits for their customers, and ensure that the voice of the customer is truly integrated into the business.