Foner Joel – Agile New England https://agilenewengland.org Networking Events for Agilists, Agile Software Development, GamingWordPress Mon, 23 May 2022 10:03:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://agilenewengland.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-ANE_Logo_512x512Transparent-32x32.png Foner Joel – Agile New England https://agilenewengland.org 32 32 Conflict – The Hidden Fuel For Your Agile Success https://agilenewengland.org/conflict-the-hidden-fuel-for-your-agile-success/ Fri, 08 Oct 2021 02:00:42 +0000 https://dev.agilenewengland.org/?p=3936 Have you ever felt frustrated by conflict and opposition? Have you wondered why great ideas you bring to your organization are ignored, and why impediments are created by people who “just don’t get it?” Have you noticed that teaching agile doesn’t create the buy-in you need to make progress?

Don’t despair! You can turn conflict into collaboration, even in high stakes situations. Join us to discover how to use conflict and opposition as the fuel for transformations that last.

About the Speaker:

Joel Foner helps people who are frustrated by conflict learn new skills so they can convert conflict into collaboration. He has worked for over 15 years in many areas of systems and product development. In addition to management, leadership, and team coaching, he has years of experience as an agile practitioner and instructor, having trained over 1,100 agilists. Joel brings an uncommon mix of technical, business, human systems, and group psychology skills to organizational and team results improvement.

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How To Make Progress Faster https://agilenewengland.org/how-to-make-progress-faster/ Fri, 07 Aug 2020 00:40:56 +0000 https://dev.agilenewengland.org/?p=7907 “Yet another agile transformation”… full of slow, blocked, or flat-out impossible situations. Everyone feels trapped by the system. You are pushed to go against your principles, to get along. You do it because you don’t see any other way.

It doesn’t have to be this way! Wouldn’t it be great to have powerful change options at hand, so you can remove the big impediments and help everyone find a better future more quickly?

In this workshop you will learn new skills so you can choose better interaction and intervention strategies and multiply your chances to make progress faster. Be prepared to participate! This session will include large group work and small group practice exercises.

 

About the Speaker:

Joel Foner is a results improvement coach and teacher with software development and technical sales experience and an uncommon array of business, psychology, technology and consultative skills. He has worked with both large multi-national corporations and local companies. Joel had developed an approach that blends interaction psychology and data-informed decision-making to unlock progress and improvement in leaders and teams.

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