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emily webber a blog about people culture organisations and teams skip to the content emily webber a blog about people culture organisations and teams show menu hide menu home about me contact me public speaking rss feed home about me contact me public speaking rss feed search the blog search this month s most popular posts more icebreakers for meetings and workshops that don t suck no really quick icebreakers for online meetings that don t suck explaining the role of a delivery manager think links icebreakers a miro board template that you can use the team manual an exercise to help build empathy in teams team exercise building empathy and understanding with the capability comb a model for nesting connected groups with communities of practice the 4ds roles and responsibilities workshop decision making at the right level with hats haircuts and tattoos the 4 ps of effective standups my other websites tacit consultancy communities of practice work the team onion agile in the ether meetup connect on linkedin bluesky mail licence and usage of content all work on this website is by emily webber unless otherwise stated and is licensed under a creative commons attribution noncommercial noderivatives 4 0 international license a model for nesting connected groups with communities of practice 30 july 2026 emily webber 0 comments reading time 3 minutes in the new edition of my book building successful communities of practice i share insights into community size and interactions i ve been using this theory with clients to create nested layers that include communities of practice that serve as a model for their organisation continue reading a new communities of practice model for organisational maturity 23 february 2026 emily webber 0 comments reading time 2 minutes i have been busy working on the second edition of my book building successful communities of practice as it s 10 years since the first one there is a lot of new content including a new communities of practice organisational maturity model which i have just made available for download continue reading agile in the ether irl 2026 no slides just vibes 11 february 2026 emily webber 1 comment reading time 7 minutes on thursday 5th february 25 people who normally mostly meet online travelled to liverpool to meet in person it was a brilliant couple of days connecting with people and ideas here s what happened continue reading building communities of practice that amplify the flow of learning across organisations 29 october 2025 emily webber 0 comments reading time 8 minutes this post is the write up of a talk i gave at fast flow conference in october 2025 about communities of practice through the lens of learning knowledge and ideas flow continue reading more icebreakers for meetings and workshops that don t suck no really 10 october 2025 emily webber 2 comments reading time 6 minutes last week i ran a workshop at agile cambridge building on top of my popular blog post quick icebreakers for online meetings that don t suck the workshop examined why we use icebreakers what a good and bad icebreaker looks like and how to select the right ones for specific scenarios this post summarises that workshop continue reading decision making at the right level with hats haircuts and tattoos 12 september 2025 emily webber 1 comment reading time 3 minutes i recently led a leadership training session for a client during the planning the evergreen question of how do we make decisions came up this post talks about the framework i introduced to help answer that question continue reading the scaling teams checklist 17 july 2025 emily webber 0 comments reading time 2 minutes how do you know when you re ready to scale your team s jamie arnold and i have been exploring this topic and have created a handy download to help leaders and teams answer the question continue reading sponsored course places on building successful communities of practice for underrepresented and marginalised groups 20 june 2025 emily webber 1 comment reading time 2 minutes my friend and work associate ian ames has generously offered to sponsor two places on my new course building successful communities of practice for underrepresented and marginalised groups within the digital industry i asked ian to tell me more about why he wanted to do this and this is what he said if you or someone you know would like to take him up on the offer jump to the end of the post to find out how to get in touch with him continue reading i ve launched new online course building successful communities of practice 23 may 2025 emily webber 1 comment reading time 1 minute exciting news after lots of slide making video recording and testing i have just launched a new online course called building successful communities of practice continue reading the 4ds roles and responsibilities workshop 30 april 2025 emily webber 0 comments reading time 3 minutes people often struggle to describe who does what getting it wrong can mean that things fall through the cracks or it becomes so descriptive that it hinders work articulating roles and responsibilities especially in the 4ds format can clarify decision making help set expectations within and outside of the team and foster better collaboration continue reading the leadership team s purpose workshop 16 april 2025 emily webber 0 comments reading time 3 minutes i have been working with leadership teams for a while and have used this workshop to help them align around and articulate their purpose this exercise allows them to identify opportunities to improve focus their efforts and better communicate what they do with the rest of the organisation this post shares the workshop format and a miroboard that can be downloaded continue reading agile in the ether irl 2025 ethernets connect 14 february 2025 emily webber 0 comments reading time 4 minutes following last years irl get together members of the agile in the ether community spent another sunny friday in liverpool connecting and sharing ideas such a brilliant way to brighten up february continue reading the role of transactive memory systems in great teams 24 october 2024 emily webber 0 comments reading time 5 minutes while researching for my talk a framework for thinking about team memory joining up and serendipity in hybrid organisations i came across a term that was new to me but summed up something i had seen and gave me language to describe it that team was the transactive memory system this post talks about what it is why it s important and some tactics to help build it continue reading the planning game away day 23 august 2024 emily webber 0 comments reading time 1 minute a few months back i worked with a client to design their away day working with jamie paul and the programme team we blended team updates with a new board game about planning to make a brilliant day continue reading multidisciplinary team building game another miro template 19 june 2024 emily webber 0 comments reading time 1 minute agile and other teams are made up of people with different capabilities together into one multidisciplinary team collaborating daily towards a common goal this workshop is a game that helps people play at creating multidisciplinary teams while thinking about capability needs learning opportunities and constraints continue reading maintaining and reinforcing team memory workshop miro template 10 june 2024 emily webber 0 comments reading time 1 minute in my last post a framework for thinking about team memory joining up and serendipity in hybrid organisations i introduced a framework for thinking about team memory i have now turned this into a miro board template for a workshop which is available on the miroverse continue reading a framework for thinking about team memory joining up and serendipity in hybrid organisations 24 may 2024 emily webber 0 comments reading time 5 minutes last week i gave a keynote talk at agile manchester based on a previous blog post the talk was more detailed and had a new framing this post summarises what i shared continue reading team taxonomies for digital data and technology organisations 19 april 2024 emily webber 0 comments reading time 3 minutes i have been working with digital data and technology organisations for a long time many of which are in uk government departments one thing that i have seen people get tripped up on is how they describe teams ambiguity about what a team is can create tensions rework and confusion and ultimately get in the way of the work to help i ve been developing a team taxonomy so that some of my clients and their teams can have better conversations about differences and similarities and hint at the expectations of interactions this post shares these taxonomies in case they are useful to others too continue reading agile in the ether irl 2024 a wonderful community event 5 february 2024 emily webber 2 comments reading time 6 minutes i have been running agile in the ether for over five years this year we had a face to face event for the first time it was wonderful and proves you can make real connections over video in this post i ll talk briefly about the intention the approach and what happened continue reading capability comb team workshop miro template 1 february 2024 emily webber 0 comments reading time 1 minute in my previous post team exercise building empathy and understanding with the capability comb i introduced an approach to help a team surface their capabilities and identify opportunities to collaborate since then i have created a miroboard on the miroverse to use with the workshop you can get a copy of it here miro com miroverse the capability comb workshop template if you use it please drop me a line and let me know how it goes photo by khyta on unsplash people capabilities as outcomes 17 november 2023 emily webber 0 comments reading time 2 minutes the term outcome is a brilliant way of describing the impact and value of doing something i also like to use outcomes to help describe the capabilities of people and practices or disciplines let me explain why it s so helpful continue reading new website communities of practice work 3 november 2023 emily webber 0 comments reading time 1 minute i have been working with writing about and speaking on communities of practice for many years now that content is scattered in various places like this blog my company website and other platforms so i ve brought it all together in one place check it out at communitiesofpractice work continue reading why can t we all just get along again 1 november 2023 emily webber 0 comments reading time 1 minute back in november last year i wrote up a talk i gave at lean agile brighton called why can t we all just get along i ve given the talk at a few more conferences and written it up as an article on infoq called bridging silos and overcoming collaboration antipatterns in multidisciplinary organisations the most recent time i spoke about it was at seacon in london and that 20 minute talk is here enjoy continue reading views of new brighton lighthouse 14 october 2023 emily webber 0 comments reading time 1 minute for a little while i was encouraging myself out of the house by setting the target of taking regular short videos of the new brighton lighthouse at the mouth of the mersey here are those videos taken between december 2022 and august 2023 continue reading talking about learning at agile on the bench at agile cambridge 28 september 2023 emily webber 0 comments reading time 1 minute this week i have been back at the agile cambridge conference with agile on the bench with my co host cara bermingham agile on the bench is a friendly low fi lunchtime outdoor agile meetup a mix of 10min mostly analogy based talks about all things agile people teams users and getting things done outside on a bench in a park continue reading older posts 2026 emily webber theme by anders norén up verifying mastodon linkedin copy bluesky share on mastodon enter your mastodon 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