Everyday Design Guides

Everyday Guides

The guides are focused on themes related to design thinking, agile solutions, intentional marketing / communication, leadership and everyday life.

Featured Guides

Agile creative studio
November 6, 2024
November 9, 2022

Creative Scrum

A group of people following a leader
November 6, 2024
November 7, 2022

Find a Mentor

Cultivating growing servant leaders
November 6, 2024
January 12, 2022

Cultivating Servant Leaders

a curving knotted arrow
November 6, 2024
November 7, 2022

How to Problem-Find Before You Problem-Solve

Two people meeting for a 1on1
November 6, 2024
November 16, 2022

How 1 on 1 Coaching Will Make You a Better Leader

Digital Whiteboard Review: Miro, Mural, FigJam, Lucidspark, Jamboard, Creately
November 6, 2024
March 21, 2023

How to choose the best online digital whiteboard in 2022?

Latest Guides

Contrast between two images
November 29, 2024
February 11, 2023

You Need Contrast to Grow as a Leader

Leadership
Gardening Tools
November 29, 2024
November 7, 2022

Less Can Be More When Cultivating Leaders

Leadership
A scheduling notebook
November 23, 2024
November 7, 2022

I'm Sharing My Favorite Hacks For Scheduling Your Day

Leadership
Agile
Agile Pillar Adapt
November 6, 2024
July 9, 2023

Agile Adaptation

Agile
Transparent building
November 6, 2024
July 7, 2023

Agile Transparency

Agile
Leadership
Inspection magnifying glass
November 6, 2024
July 7, 2023

Agile Inspection

Agile
Aligned markers
November 6, 2024
March 24, 2023

Why Alignment is so Important to Leader Design

Leadership
The number 4
November 6, 2024
March 24, 2023

Learn How To Achieve Your Goals Using The 4 Disciplines Of Execution (4dx)

Leadership
Focus
Digital Whiteboard Review: Miro, Mural, FigJam, Lucidspark, Jamboard, Creately
November 6, 2024
March 21, 2023

How to choose the best online digital whiteboard in 2022?

Design Thinking
Agile
Leadership
Tunnel of chaos
November 6, 2024
March 21, 2023

Creative Scrum: Tunnel of Chaos

Agile
Leadership
An effective work meeting
November 6, 2024
March 18, 2023

A Recipe for Hosting Effective Meetings

Leadership
A lightbulb representing ideas
November 6, 2024
March 18, 2023

Creative Scrum: Selling the Idea

Agile
Leadership
Scrum Meeting
November 6, 2024
March 18, 2023

Why does Scrum have so many meetings?

Agile
Chart for outcomes
November 6, 2024
March 3, 2023

Creative Scrum: Defining the Outcomes

Agile
Creative Scrum road
November 6, 2024
March 1, 2023

Creative Scrum: Backstory

Agile
Leadership
Creative Scrum research paper
November 6, 2024
March 1, 2023

Creative Scrum: Doing Research

Agile
a self-organizing team working together
November 6, 2024
February 22, 2023

The Power of Self-Organizing Teams to Unlock Your Team’s True Potential

Agile
Leadership
A product owner and scrum master in a meeting
November 6, 2024
February 18, 2023

A Tale of Two Roles: Product Owner vs. Scrum Master

Agile
Enneagram 6 leader
November 6, 2024
February 18, 2023

Harnessing Your Inner Enneagram 6 Leader

Leadership
a project manager at a desk next to a Scrum Master at a desk
November 6, 2024
February 18, 2023

How is a scrum master different than a project manager?

Agile
Affinity Diagramming with Sticky Notes
November 6, 2024
February 18, 2023

How to use Affinity Diagrams to discover insights

Design Thinking
two people learning Scrum together
November 6, 2024
February 18, 2023

Scrum glossary and terminology cheat sheet

Agile
picture with contrast
November 6, 2024
February 18, 2023

Scrum vs. Agile.

Agile
An enneagram 1 leader
November 6, 2024
February 18, 2023

Unleashing the Power of Enneagram 1 Leadership

Leadership
people using computers at the same table
November 6, 2024
February 18, 2023

What are the roles in Scrum?

Agile
Scrum development team at a table during a meeting
November 6, 2024
February 18, 2023

What is a Scrum Development Team?

Agile
Card Sorting for a Team
November 6, 2024
February 17, 2023

How Card Sorting Can Help You Take Your Leadership Skills to the Next Level

Design Thinking
As a... I want to... So the I can...
November 6, 2024
February 17, 2023

Learn to write user stories in Scrum

Agile
Strengthsfinder Significance looking for meaning in the sky
November 6, 2024
February 12, 2023

Leading with the Significance StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Birds in proximity
November 6, 2024
February 11, 2023

You Should Consider Proximity Essential to Your Leader Design

Leadership
photo of bird with lots of negative space
November 6, 2024
February 11, 2023

How to Use Negative Space in Your Design as a Leader

Leadership
Rhythm of windows on a building
November 6, 2024
February 11, 2023

Rhythm is Critical for the Longterm Health of a Leader

Leadership
Leader on a mountain
November 6, 2024
February 7, 2023

Unlocking Your Leadership Potential With the Enneagram

Leadership
A Servant Leader
November 6, 2024
February 6, 2023

Applying StrengthsFinder in Servant Leadership

Leadership
Turn Ideas into Reality
November 6, 2024
February 3, 2023

An Introduction to OKRs: Objectives and Key Results

Leadership
Window framing a mountain view
November 6, 2024
February 3, 2023

Discover How the Vision Frame Helps You Set Goals

Leadership
Focus
Notepad for goal setting to-do list
November 6, 2024
February 3, 2023

How To-Do Lists Can Help You Set Goals

Leadership
Focus
Your Ideas Matter
November 6, 2024
February 3, 2023

How You Can Use the Strategic Planning Process

Leadership
Clarity coming from a pair of glasses.
November 6, 2024
February 3, 2023

Learn How to Create Clarity Around Your Goals

Leadership
Focus
Girl writing down her SMART goals
November 6, 2024
February 3, 2023

Setting Goals the Right Way

Leadership
Focus
An Individual in a crowd
November 6, 2024
January 31, 2023

Leading with the Individualization StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
runner going up stairs
November 6, 2024
January 31, 2023

Leading with the Maximizer StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Coaching arrow pointing forward
November 6, 2024
January 31, 2023

Why I started coaching

Leadership
Arranger Strengthsfinder pencils
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Arranger StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
connected light swirls
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Connectedness StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Adaptability Chameleon
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Adaptability StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
communication bubble
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Communication StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Belief inspiring sunrise
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Belief StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
woman with commanding presence
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Command StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Activator StrengthsFinder motorcycle jumping
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Activator StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Achiever Strengthsfinder Leadership - Leading with the Achiever StrengthsFinder Talent
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Achiever StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Analytical StrengthsFinder numbers
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Analytical StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
competition winners stand
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Competition StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
old books
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Context StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Strengthsfinder developer witting with someone they're coaching
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Developer StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Discipled leader looking at laptop
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Discipline StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Warning sign
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Deliberative StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
lightbulb
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Ideation StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Design Thinking
consistent shapes
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Consistency StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Futuristic StrengthsFinder leader staring into the future.
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Futuristic StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Two people walking empathetically
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Empathy StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
inclusive team
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Includer StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
harmony rocks
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Harmony StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Focus StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
multiple audio inputs
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Input StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Leader with intellection reflecting
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Intellection StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
friends relating to each other
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Relator StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Strengthsfinder positivity - glass half ful
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Positivity StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
StrengthsFinder learner making notes
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Learner StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
strategic game of chess
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Strategic StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
restoration sign
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Restorative StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Large skyscrapers
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Responsibility StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
self-assured leader
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Self-Assurance StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
excited young people
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

Leading with the Woo StrengthsFinder Talent

Leadership
Design Spring Whiteboard
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

What I Learned in My First Design Sprint

Design Thinking
Design Sprint Book
November 6, 2024
January 28, 2023

What is a Design Sprint?

Design Thinking
Rocks balancing
November 6, 2024
December 28, 2022

How I use CliftonStrenghts as a leader

Leadership
3 people in discussion
November 6, 2024
December 28, 2022

How to use story points in Scrum?

Agile
Team members discussing team values
November 6, 2024
December 27, 2022

Value Moments

Leadership
Team Facilitator
November 6, 2024
December 17, 2022

Note-and-Vote

Design Thinking
Sticky notes on a window
November 6, 2024
November 22, 2022

How a Scrum backlog increases team effectiveness

Agile
Business woman looking out the window
November 6, 2024
November 20, 2022

What is a product owner?

Agile
Woman laughing
November 6, 2024
November 20, 2022

What is a Scrum Master?

Agile
Two members of a Scrum team working on acceptance criteria examples at a whiteboard
November 6, 2024
November 19, 2022

A How to Guide for Writing Acceptance Criteria with Examples

Agile
Two people meeting for a 1on1
November 6, 2024
November 16, 2022

How 1 on 1 Coaching Will Make You a Better Leader

Leadership
Agile
Agile marketing at their desk
November 6, 2024
November 16, 2022

Scrum Marketing

Agile
Two people leaping for joy
November 6, 2024
November 16, 2022

What is the definition of done in Scrum?

Agile
the goal - a finish line
November 6, 2024
November 15, 2022

Everyday Goals

Leadership
Focus
Life
Agile
Writer using scrum to create content.
November 6, 2024
November 9, 2022

A Guide to Agile Writing

Agile
Agile creative studio
November 6, 2024
November 9, 2022

Creative Scrum

Agile
?? Scrum???
November 6, 2024
November 9, 2022

Scrum: expectations vs. reality

Agile
Woman with sticky notes
November 6, 2024
November 9, 2022

What is the definition of Scrum?

Agile
Woman writing on whiteboard
November 6, 2024
November 9, 2022

Why use Scrum?

Agile
Scrum Education - pencils
November 6, 2024
November 8, 2022

Agile Homeschooling

Agile
a desk for working on Scrum professional development
November 6, 2024
November 8, 2022

How can I use Scrum to manage my personal or professional development?

Agile
person stretching at sunrise
November 6, 2024
November 8, 2022

Freedom and Flexibility

Agile
Team members at a table together
November 6, 2024
November 8, 2022

Getting work done as a team.

Leadership
team working together
November 6, 2024
November 8, 2022

How do I keep my team focused on the right work?

Agile
Leadership
Scrum Team together
November 6, 2024
November 8, 2022

How To Align The Scrum Values With Your Organizational Culture

Agile
Man walking back on a road
November 6, 2024
November 8, 2022

How to change direction after you’ve already invested a lot of effort?

Agile
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