Leadership and Managing People with Johanna Rothman

We often talk about Management and Leadership. Management focuses on planning, organizing, staffing, directing and controlling whereas Leadership is about providing a high-level vision for the teams to attain a common goal. We have recently featured Johanna Rothman in a video interview with us where she shared her expertise on important aspects of Management. She shared her distinguished thoughts on leading and serving as per her experiences while working with teams. She says we need to lead people in order to serve our customers.

We also discussed the important aspects of “Innovation” and “Building the environment in an organization”. She also highlighted that having short feedback loops will help us learn faster and touch upon a very talked about topic – hiring during a remote environment.

Interviewee: Johanna Rothman (Managing Product Development – Author, Consultant, Speaker at Rothman Consulting Group Inc.)

Johanna Rothman, is known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” provides frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams see problems and resolve risks and manage their product development. She is also a product development expert, with a focus on how to use agility at all levels, and worked with agile teams at all levels—leaders, teams, and the entire organization.

She is an author of over two hundred articles and several books – Manage Your Job Search – Hiring Geeks That Fit – Manage Your Project Portfolio : Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects -The 2008 Jolt Productivity award-winning Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management -Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management and many more

Interviewer: Noopur Pathak (Chief Media Editor, INNOVATION ROOTS)

Kanban Systems Improvement(KMP II) Workshop on 17 September – 19 September 2021

INNOVATION ROOTS announces Kanban Systems Improvement (KMP-II) workshop with Prashant M J (Lead Consultant at INNOVATION ROOTS), to be held Online from 17th September – 19th September 2021.

This an online workshop offers an advanced understanding of the Kanban system. It helps to implement continuous improvement and effectively manage day-to-day work by applying Kanban. This workshop also provides an overview of how to improve and forecast the flow of work within a system and system at scale. It gives insights in applying feedback loops, metrics, dealing with resistance to change and helps the system to evolve over the time.

Attending this workshop you will learn how to manage, optimize and evolve the daily operations of the Kanban system. The participants will learn advanced concepts through interactive methods, exercises as well as case studies and discussions.

Register Now!