Communication made simple, with José Mota

Would you rather strictly prescribe work to your teams or open up the game in a descriptive, collaborative setting? Learn about the two styles of leadership and how that affects the relationships you have with your teams and your purpose as a leader of the 21st century.

What if I told you that there are businesses that insist on saving money short term by combining more than one of the roles into a single person, overlooking the consequences of that decision long term? What do you think of the topic? Let me know at podcast@josemota.net or find me on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/josemotanet John Miller's post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/agileclassrooms_s...

Email coaching@josemota.net for a free coaching call. Check episode #31 for an introduction to the VIC triangle. In this episode, I explain the application of the concept into a product team.

Back from PTO! In this episode I explain with some detail what it really means to be a good product manager, and clarifying some typical misunderstandings about the role or variations of it. Reference material: Nils Davis: https://alltheresponsibility.com/ BRIDGeS framework: https://railsware.com/bridges-framework/ Ralph Jocham: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralphjocham/

If you're a knowledge worker, part of a team that builds digital products or somehow are involved in them, then you must know that there are multiple ways to go about solving customer problems, some of them better than others. In the end, we all want to achieve the same result: to build something that matters and to forge sustainable relationships with happy customers.

Group coaching series starts Oct 3rd! Get 50% off if you sign up until Aug 12th. Email coaching@josemota.net to register. — If you're a solopreneur, you understand how incredibly important it is to exercise all visionary, integrator, and catalyst skills. In this episode I'll explain you how you can start exercising all three stances in small steps. My practice as a coach requires all three...

A successful initiative requires three key components: a visionary, an integrator, and a catalyst/coach. I explain my proposition for this triangle of leadership. References: "Traction", by Gene Wickman: https://www.eosworldwide.com/traction-book

Group coaching series starts next fall — 50% off if you sign up before August 12th! Email coaching@josemota.net for details and registration. --- Remember the story of that little girl and the three bears? Not too much, not too little, but "just right". I explore the Goldilocks principle applied to learning and leadership.

Do you know this proverb that says: "An old dog can't learn new tricks"? I am telling you, that proverb is funny for adult educators like me because I don't believe that, I don't! References: Carol Dweck's book "Mindset": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40745.Mindset

When we improve the way we speak, not only it relays information, it also relays emotions like inspiration, motivation, challenge, empathy, and achievement.

What good does it do to manage time if you don't know the purpose to which you use it? It starts there: your purpose.

Waiting for the right conditions doesn't matter. Get to work and celebrate progress over perfection.

Accountability is good on its own, without liability. Understand the difference, leverage it to be more effective and productive.

Listen to the entire series on procrastination here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/josemotanet/episodes/022--Understand-procrastination-1-Fear-and-overwhelm-e23r7l2 Reclaiming motivation in today's day and age is still somewhat simple, despite all distractions, competition and stimuli. It only takes a little bit of discipline and a sprinkle of time.

Oh, distractions. Who doesn't have them in 2023? Life is more exciting than it's ever been, and it's in our best interest to give the right time to the right things. When we are distracted, we lose focus and we procrastinate. It's that simple. Good news for you: there is a right time to be distracted, every day, every week, every year. You are entitled to it, and you get to choose...

A new series on procrastination, a very broad topic that is discussed everyday, everywhere, by a lot of different people, more or less of an expert. I'm not one of them and yet I am very much aware of this issue because I too fall into it frequently! My experience with it is very practical and empirical, and what I'm sharing today is based entirely on that. Reference material How to use ou...

You have your own jar of things you can fit in a day. Pick the rocks first, then the pebbles and finally the sand.

Much like babies and toddlers, adults go through the same set of stages when learning and growing. Coaches typically engage with clients at different stages of growth. The starting point is always different for each of them, and yet the approach or sequence stays almost the same.

How can digital products be compared to painting? How close are you to painting a product? Let's take a closer look at how the different steps of painting can almost directly map to digital products.

Early and frequent delivery of quality working product is the fundamental principle that improves time to market. Learn four ways to reduce waste and improve this key value area. Referenced material Evidence-based management guide

Using powerful words have an immensely positive impact, borderline transformative. It will mean the difference between making a person feel apprehensive and demotivated to excited, confident and motivated. Open questions that entrust the other person are key to solid relationships based on trust and psychological safety.

Reverse your relationship with time when building product. Measure how much time it takes to take an idea from backlog to customers instead of how many ideas per fixed unit of time.

This is the third episode of a series called "Agile done wrong",  where I discuss how organizational culture and traditional management practices often obstruct true adoption of agile practices and methods successfully. PSA: I'm offering a significant discount to a limited amount of clients on my 6-session coaching package. Sign up at https://josemota.net/coaching .

PSA: I'm offering a significant discount to a limited amount of clients on my 6-session coaching package. Sign up at https://josemota.net/coaching . This is the second episode of a series called "Agile done wrong", where I discuss how estimates don't work when solving complex problems.

PSA: I'm offering a significant discount to a limited amount of clients on my 6-session coaching package. Sign up at https://josemota.net/coaching . This is the first episode of a series called "Agile done wrong", where I discuss how Agile methodologies and values are commonly disregarded and mixed in with other conflicting practices. Agile manifesto website: https://agilemanifesto.org Agile manif...