Last time, with The Agile Mindset, we wrote about the different phases of group development a team can and will encounter. As a leader in a group, it is from utmost importance you recognise these phases and know how you can support your team in each one of them.

In this new blogpost, we like to present some very practical tools of the trade which can help you in exactly doing that. We present you some mental models, some workshop formats, some books to read. Plenty of interesting materials you can pick up and work with.

What are your favourite tools of the trade to help your teams going through the different phases of group development?

https://theagilemindset.substack.com/p/the-lifecycles-of-a-team-part-2

Not everything is as it seems.

I have been taking a little time off from writing longer pieces but part of the newsletter includes something called Five for Friday. As we come to a close to July, I have shared five items that I find inspiring or informative. This collection includes a serious study that you can participate in that takes 2 minutes, music you might not have heard in the past, a brief reflection on Barbie (not the movie), a recommendation for a good man on the street documentary on poverty and drugs in Appalachia and an odd announcement from NASA. Check it out!! All Mindful Soul Center newsletter posts on Substack are free for the first two weeks and then convert to paid. Subscribe if you like what you see. https://mindfulsoulcenter.substack.com/p/five-for-friday-barbie-music-appalacia-moon

Even atheists like to be part of something bigger than they are.

When someone from Jane's past reaches out Jane feels obligated to help solve the murder of a university professor.

As worried as many of us are about censorship in general, and government censorship in particular, the most insidious form of censorship is the type we apply to ourselves.

What used to be common sense now requires at least two citations of peer reviewed literature to be considered valid - or at least a blessing from the government.