5 Things I Wish I’d Known Sooner About Scaling Teams & Culture – Turing Fest

August 2, 2018 ~ Meri ~ 1 Comment

Thanks for welcoming me to beautifully cool Edinburgh, Turing Fest! Below are the slides and links to the books, talks, etc mentioned. Please do shout if I have forgotten anything.

5 Things I Wish I'd Known Sooner About Scaling Teams & Culture – at Turing Fest from Meri Williams

Books & Tools & Talks Mentioned in This Talk

- First Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
- If you don’t have time to read Drive, watch this fab sketchnote video of one of Dan’s talks
- Stumbling on Happiness by Dan Gilbert
- Jessie Link’s excellent talk on retrospectives at The Lead Dev in New York last year
- Spotify’s Health Check approach
- Sam Barnes’ talk which includes some tips on how to help teams observe & measure how they think they are doing — so you can judge the impact of changes

Scaling Teams & Culture Keynote at Scale Summit

March 16, 2018 ~ Meri ~ 2 Comments

I was delighted to do the opening keynote at Scale Summit 2018 this morning — thanks for the warm welcome, folks. Below are the slides and links to the books, talks, etc mentioned. Please do shout if I have forgotten anything.

5 Things I Wish I Knew Sooner About Scaling Teams & Culture from Meri Williams

Books & Tools & Talks Mentioned in This Talk

- First Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
- If you don’t have time to read Drive, watch this fab sketchnote video of one of Dan’s talks
- Stumbling on Happiness
- Jessie Link’s excellent talk on retrospectives at The Lead Dev in New York last year
- Spotify’s Health Check approach
- Sam Barnes’ talk which includes some tips on how to help teams observe & measure how they think they are doing — so you can judge the impact of changes

Creating Space to Be Awesome at ScotlandPHP2017

November 5, 2017 ~ Meri ~ Leave a comment

I was pleased to deliver the closing keynote at ScotlandPHP 2017, thanks for having me to speak.

Slides and books and links below, also a few folks asked about my Be A Brilliant People Developer workshop and The Lead Developer conference — hope to see you there!

Creating Space to Be Awesome at ScotlandPHP17 from Meri Williams

Books & Tools Mentioned in This Talk

First Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
If you don’t have time to read Drive, watch this fab sketchnote video of one of Dan’s talks
Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World Class Performers from Everyone Else by Geoff Colvin
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Peggy McIntosh’s excellent Unpacking the White Privilege Knapsack < you need to read this. Now. Please.
John Scalzi’s explanation of how privilege is about the “difficulty setting” of your life – and straight white male is the lowest difficulty setting

If you’re new to coaching, you might also enjoy the talk I did on stealing coaching lessons from sports at Dare Conf Mini a couple of years back: video and slides.

Modern Management at #wintech17

May 11, 2017 ~ Meri ~ Leave a comment

Thank you for the stupendous reception at Women of Silicon Roundabout today — so sorry we ran out of space before we even started, I’m humbled by how many of you sat on the floor or stood at the back through the entire talk!

Slides and books and links below, also a few folks asked about my Be A Brilliant People Developer workshop and The Lead Developer conference — hope to see you there!

Modern Management at #wintech17 from Meri Williams

Books & Tools Mentioned in This Talk

First Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
If you don’t have time to read Drive, watch this fab sketchnote video of one of Dan’s talks
Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World Class Performers from Everyone Else by Geoff Colvin
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Peggy McIntosh’s excellent Unpacking the White Privilege Knapsack < you need to read this. Now. Please.
John Scalzi’s explanation of how privilege is about the “difficulty setting” of your life – and straight white male is the lowest difficulty setting

If you’re new to coaching, you might also enjoy the talk I did on stealing coaching lessons from sports at Dare Conf Mini a couple of years back: video and slides.

Modern Leadership & Team Science: Creating Space to Be Awesome at QCon São Paulo

April 26, 2017 ~ Meri ~ Leave a comment

Friends, thank you for putting up with my poor microphone handling skills and laughing at my daft jokes. You were a lovely welcoming audience today at QCon São Paulo. Slides and links to books and tools mentioned are here.

Modern Leadership & Team Science: Creating Space to Be Awesome from Meri Williams

Books & Tools Mentioned in This Talk

First Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
If you don’t have time to read Drive, watch this fab sketchnote video of one of Dan’s talks
Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World Class Performers from Everyone Else by Geoff Colvin
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Peggy McIntosh’s excellent Unpacking the White Privilege Knapsack < you need to read this. Now. Please.
John Scalzi’s explanation of how privilege is about the “difficulty setting” of your life – and straight white male is the lowest difficulty setting

If you’re new to coaching, you might also enjoy the talk I did on stealing coaching lessons from sports at Dare Conf Mini a couple of years back: video and slides.

Modern Management: Creating Space to Be Awesome

April 21, 2017 ~ Meri ~ 1 Comment

Really enjoyed keynoting at Ground Control today. As promised, slides & links 🙂

Modern Management: Creating Space for Everyone to Be Awesome from Meri Williams

Books & Tools Mentioned in This Talk

First Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
If you don’t have time to read Drive, watch this fab sketchnote video of one of Dan’s talks
Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World Class Performers from Everyone Else by Geoff Colvin
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Peggy McIntosh’s excellent Unpacking the White Privilege Knapsack < you need to read this. Now. Please.
John Scalzi’s explanation of how privilege is about the “difficulty setting” of your life – and straight white male is the lowest difficulty setting

If you’re new to coaching, you might also enjoy the talk I did on stealing coaching lessons from sports at Dare Conf Mini a couple of years back: video and slides.

Creating Space to Be Awesome at QCon London

March 7, 2017 ~ Meri ~ Leave a comment

Thanks for the warm reception at QCon London today 🙂

Creating Space to Be Awesome at QCon London from Meri Williams

Books & Tools Mentioned in This Talk

First Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
If you don’t have time to read Drive, watch this fab sketchnote video of one of Dan’s talks
Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World Class Performers from Everyone Else by Geoff Colvin
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

If you’re new to coaching, you might also enjoy the talk I did on stealing coaching lessons from sports at Dare Conf Mini a couple of years back: video and slides.

Awesome People Management with Agile – at Agile North East

February 13, 2017 ~ Meri ~ 2 Comments

Thanks for welcoming me to speak at Agile North East tonight — it’s always nice to be back in my adoptive hometown and the conversation tonight was especially fab.

Awesome People Management with Agile at Agile North East from Meri Williams

Books & Tools Mentioned in This Talk

First Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
If you don’t have time to read Drive, watch this fab sketchnote video of one of Dan’s talks
Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World Class Performers from Everyone Else by Geoff Colvin
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

If you’re new to coaching, you might also enjoy the talk I did on stealing coaching lessons from sports at Dare Conf Mini a couple of years back: video and slides.