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• A little bit of awesome

  By Margaret L Ruwoldt on 3 October 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  The ATEM Friday Retro meeting on 2 October 2020 was a bit different from the usual. We started with a live video cross to an office building on Collins Street in Melbourne’s CBD, where three peregrine falcon chicks were hatching…. Read More ›

• Are you listening?

  By Margaret L Ruwoldt on 25 June 2020

  When was the last time you really listened to another person with your full attention? No interruptions, no distractions, no rehearsing what you’re going to say next. Every day we tell ourselves stories about what’s happening: we try to explain… Read More ›

• Introducing tech tools to an online group

  By Margaret L Ruwoldt on 3 June 2020

  

  Making your work visible is a central tenet of Agile projects. Sharing your work – showing your work to others, at all stages of the project – invites constructive input and active collaboration. It builds trust and stimulates new ideas…. Read More ›

• Adapting the Agile retro model

  By Margaret L Ruwoldt on 27 May 2020

  You may already be familiar with Agile methodology, which is where the ‘retro’ or ‘retrospective’ format comes from. In an Agile project team you would normally meet at the end of a sprint – a specific piece of work –… Read More ›

• Getting to know you, remotely

  By Margaret L Ruwoldt on 19 May 2020

  In designing the Friday Retro program, we wanted to encourage our retronauts to make meaningful connections with each other. That’s a really big ask in a group of 10 or more strangers. We’re using two tactics to foster those meaningful… Read More ›

• Friday Retro kicks off

  By Margaret L Ruwoldt on 15 May 2020

  A few weeks ago I posted a crazy idea – what if we could run an Agile-style retrospective (‘retro’) meeting for a group of strangers from many different workplaces? Could it work? Would it help people to navigate this period… Read More ›

• Clarity and focus in 30 minutes per fortnight

  By Margaret L Ruwoldt on 27 April 2020

  Good news for friends and colleagues in the tertiary education sector – Triangle Consulting and the Association for Tertiary Education Management are offering the Friday Retro program free for ATEM members. Starting on Friday 15 May, this get-together will run… Read More ›

• Designing a new kind of retro meeting

  By Margaret L Ruwoldt on 13 April 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  When everything is changing around you, every demand on your time and energy seems both urgent and important. Breaking that insta-response cycle, finding time for reflection and clarity, can be difficult. Talking to friends and colleagues recently, Sally and I… Read More ›

• Going online, ready or not

  By Margaret L Ruwoldt on 19 March 2020

  

  Suddenly it seems that everybody’s doing it: moving their training programs, workshops, meetings, seminars and services – even whole conferences – online. Although the tools have been available for years, many sole traders, small businesses, NFPs, trainers and consultants have… Read More ›

• How to build your podcast audience

  By Margaret L Ruwoldt on 5 March 2020

  In February 2020 your carefully crafted podcast was just one amongst 850,000 active podcasts available globally. More than 1.6 million Australians download an audio or video podcast each month, and that number is rising. So how does your podcast find… Read More ›