An exercise for creating a team Working Agreement | by Bevan Williams | Think Agile
This Working Agreement exercise has been adapted from Esther Derby and Diana Larsen’s 5 step structure from their book Agile Retrospectives. The five steps can be summarised as follows:
- Set the stage — Goal: Set the tone and direction.
- Gather data — Goal: Create a shared memory; highlight pertinent information and events
- Generate insights — Goal: Think creatively; look for patterns, themes and connections
- Decide what to do — Goal: Generate and prioritize valuable, clear actions
- Close — Goal: Summarize and end the meeting
That said, in the context of Working Agreements you can run the following:
Describe what the purpose of the exercise is. I like to use the following introduction and description of what a working agreement is, and how it can benefit a team:
“Becoming a team involves commitment to working together and supporting each other in our common goals.
This commitment is supported by writing what
Listening Exercise: Movies
Vocabulary
Kinds of movies:
comedy– funny movies drama– serious movies romance– movies about love (also romantic movie) comedy-drama– funny movies about love
horror– scary movies
documentary– story of something that really happened
mystery– a secret, something you don’t know. In movies
we have to wait to see the ending to know how something happened
action and adventure– movies with a lot of action, for
example fighting or
western– movies about cowboys
musical– movies with singing and dancing
Other:
to be into– (slang) to really like or enjoy
came out– started or began (this phrasal verb has other
meanings, too)
stuff– things
Dialogue
Harry: Hey, Elizabeth, how would you like to go see a movie
tonight?
Elizabeth: Sounds great! What would you like to see?
Harry: I don’t know… how about that new horror
10 Creativity Challenges to Exercise Your Creative Confidence | by James Le | Constraint Drives Creativity
· Tool: Customer Journey Map
· Participants: Solo or groups of 2 to 6 people
· Time: 1–4 hours
· Supplies: Whiteboard or Post-its
Instructions:
1. Choose a process or journey that you want to map.
2. Write down the steps. Make sure to include even small steps that may seem trivial. The goal is to get you to consider the nuances of the experience that you may normally overlook.
3. Organize the steps into a map. Usually we display the steps sequentially in a timeline. Your map may include branches to show alternative paths in the customer journey. You could also use a series of pictures or whatever method fits your data.
4. Look for insights. What patterns emerge? Anything surprising or strange? Question why certain steps occur, the order they occur in, and so forth. Ask yourself how you might innovate each step.
5. If possible, show the
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Flexibility Exercise (Stretching) | American Heart Association
Flexibility exercise is one of the four types of exercise along with strength, balance and endurance. Ideally, all four types of exercise would be included in a healthy workout routine and AHA provides easy-to-follow guidelines for endurance and strength-training in its Recommendations for Physical Activity in Adults.
They don’t all need to be done every day, but variety helps keep the body fit and healthy, and makes exercise interesting. You can do a variety of exercises to keep your physical activity routine exciting. Many different types of exercises can improve strength, endurance, flexibility, and balance. For example, practicing yoga can improve your balance, strength, and flexibility. A lot of lower-body strength-training exercises also will improve your balance.
Flexibility exercises stretch your muscles and can help your body stay flexible. These exercises may not improve your endurance or strength, but being flexible gives you more freedom of movement for other exercise
Exercise synonyms, exercise antonyms – FreeThesaurus.com
Real-Life Benefits of Exercise and Physical Activity
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Why Is Physical Activity Important?
Exercise and physical activity are good for just about everyone, including older adults. No matter your health and physical abilities, you can gain a lot by staying active. In fact, studies show that “taking it easy” is risky. Often, inactivity is more to blame than age when older people lose the ability to do things on their own. Lack of physical activity also can lead to more visits to the doctor, more hospitalizations, and more use of medicines for a variety of illnesses.
Including all 4 types of exercise can benefit a wide range of areas of your life. Staying active can help you:
- Keep and improve your strength so you can stay independent
- Have more energy to do the things you want to do and reduce fatigue
- Improve your balance and lower risk of falls and injuries from falls
- Manage and
Exercise: A drug-free approach to lowering high blood pressure
Exercise: A drug-free approach to lowering high blood pressure
Having high blood pressure and not getting enough exercise are closely related. Discover how small changes in your daily routine can make a big difference.
By Mayo Clinic Staff
Your risk of high blood pressure (hypertension) increases with age, but getting some exercise can make a big difference. And if your blood pressure is already high, exercise can help you control it. Don’t think you’ve got to run a marathon or join a gym. Instead, start slow and work more physical activity into your daily routine.
How exercise can lower your blood pressure
How are high blood pressure and exercise connected? Regular physical activity makes your heart stronger. A stronger heart can pump more blood with less effort. If your heart can work less to pump, the force on your arteries decreases, lowering your blood pressure.
Becoming more active can lower
Sciatica Symptoms, Causes, Treatments, Exercise
What Is Sciatica?
Sciatica is a common type of pain affecting the sciatic nerve, a large nerve extending from your lower back down the back of each leg.
Sciatica Symptoms
Common symptoms of sciatica include:
- Lower back pain
- Pain in the rear or leg that is worse when sitting
- Hip pain
- Burning or tingling down the leg
- Weakness, numbness, or a hard time moving the leg or foot
- A constant pain on one side of the rear
- A shooting pain that makes it hard to stand up
Sciatica usually affects only one side of the lower body. Often, the pain extends from the lower back all the way through the back of your thigh and down through your leg. Depending on where the sciatic nerve is affected, the pain may also extend to the foot or toes.
For some people, the pain from sciatica can be severe and disabling. For
Exercise Faith in Jesus Christ
Read the scriptures on page 21. Choose one and share it with your family or friends.
Scriptures about Faith in Action
Because Daniel would not stop praying, he was thrown into a den of lions, but “God … sent his angel, and … shut the lions’ mouths, … and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God” (Daniel 6:22–23; see also verses 16–21).
The Lord gave Lehi the Liahona to guide his family, and “it did work for them according to their faith in God. … [When] they were slothful, and forgot to exercise their faith and diligence … they did not progress in their journey” (Alma 37:40–41).
“Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse … and prove me now herewith … if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not