Power Agile

16/09/2026

👉 Your feelings are real. But they are not automatically someone else’s responsibility.

A recent workshop reminded me of something important about feedback, facilitation and leadership.

Two experienced professionals got into a disagreement near the end of the workshop. What started as feedback quickly became personal. Within a short time, both were emotionally affected.

Afterward, one participant explained how hurt she had felt. That helped me understand her experience in a way I simply could not have understood while the argument was happening.

But it also made me think about something deeper.

There are at least three different things in situations like this:

💠 1. What happened
Someone said or did something.

💠 2. What I felt
I felt hurt, angry, embarrassed, frustrated or disrespected.

💠 3. What I concluded
“They don't respect me.”
“They are deliberately attacking me.”
“They are the problem.”

The first is an observation.

The second is real and deserves acknowledgement.

The third is an interpretation — a hypothesis about what the other person meant.

What do you think — where should the responsibility of a leader or facilitator end, and where should personal responsibility begin?

I explore these concepts in my advance courses. I also help leaders to be self-aware in my 1:1 discovery sessions.

Full Article: https://zurl.co/SwEds

14/09/2026

For years, organizations turned managers into messengers.

No real authority. No say in decisions that mattered. Just relay the message down, relay the numbers up.

Now those same organizations are asking: "What value do our middle managers actually add?"

The irony is hard to miss. We built the role to have no power, then blamed the role for having no impact.

But here's what I keep seeing in my leadership sessions: some managers already sense where this is headed. They know that title alone won't protect them. That being liked by their team, or good at forwarding updates, isn't leadership.

And almost every session, something else surfaces too. Managers start seeing just how dysfunctional their organizations really are — and how much of that dysfunction is fostered, quietly or openly, by senior leadership.

Which raises a harder question than "is my org dysfunctional":
- Do they genuinely not see the dysfunction?
- Do they see it, but don't know how to fix it?
- Or have they simply gotten used to it — decided it's easier to live with the problem than challenge it?

That third one is the quiet career-killer. Comfort with dysfunction feels like patience. It isn't.

So in sessions, managers learn to:
- Build real influence without relying on authority
- Make decisions instead of just carrying them
- Name dysfunction instead of absorbing it
- Become someone people follow, not just someone people report to

Every session, I watch the moment it clicks. These aren't "soft skills" — they're the skills that decide whether you're still in the room next year.

If you're a manager wondering whether you're building leadership or just holding a title — or quietly getting used to a dysfunctional system — let's talk.

I run leadership workshops and offer 1:1 coaching for managers who want to lead, not just relay.

Leadership Workshop: https://zurl.co/tFrm8
30 min Discovery Call: https://zurl.co/9Ukto
Full Article: https://zurl.co/O67t3

Drop a comment or DM me "LEAD" and I'll share details on the workshop and a discovery call.

26/08/2026

🚀 Ready to Move Beyond Scrum Mastery? Step Into Professional-Level Impact.

The Certified Scrum Professional® – ScrumMaster (CSP®-SM) from Scrum Alliance is designed for experienced Scrum Masters ready to expand their influence—from enabling individual teams to coaching organizations, facilitating complex conversations, and supporting large-scale agility.

Scrum Alliance describes CSP-SM as the highest level in its Scrum Master certification track, with a focus on advanced coaching and facilitation, Lean thinking, team effectiveness, scaling, organizational adoption, and mentoring.

🎯 CSP-SM Workshop | 28–29–30 AUG
🕕 6:00 PM – 11:30 PM IST

What we'll explore:
🔸 Lean and how it works with Agile
🔸 Advanced Coaching & Large Group Facilitation
🔸 Complex Adaptive Systems & Systems Thinking
🔸 Agile Transformations & Scaling Agile
🔸 Team Coaching & Building High-Performing Teams
🔸 Practical tools, techniques and real-world application

This isn't just about adding another credential to your profile.
It's about expanding your ability to create change at the team, organizational, and system level.

The CSP-SM requires an A-CSM and, for the certification to be awarded, at least 24 months of Scrum Master experience within the past five years.

👤 Facilitated by Nanda Lankalapalli
Certified Scrum Trainer (CST) | ICF Coach

📩 [email protected]
📞 7892945526

👉 Ready to level up your impact and lead Agile transformations with confidence?

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25/08/2026

21/08/2026

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20/08/2026

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18/08/2026

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18/08/2026

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13/08/2026

🌟 CERTIFIED AGILE LEADER (CAL-1) — 3-DAY WORKSHOP

Leadership for the Next Generation. Lead Gen Z. Succeed in a Complex World.
The workplace is changing. Gen Z is entering organizations with different expectations around purpose, autonomy, collaboration, inclusion, growth, and meaningful work. Traditional command-and-control leadership is no longer enough.

The question is: Are we ready to lead differently?

Join me for an immersive Certified Agile Leader (CAL-1) workshop designed to help leaders move from managing people to creating the conditions where people can thrive.

What will we explore?
🔹 Self-Awareness — Understand yourself before attempting to lead others.
🔹 From Competition to Collaboration — Move beyond internal competition and create cultures where people collaborate, innovate, and solve problems together.
🔹 Empowerment — Shift from control to trust, ownership, autonomy, and accountability.
🔹 Engagement — Understand what creates genuine connection, commitment, and belonging.
🔹 EQ & SQ — Develop the emotional and social intelligence needed for human-centered leadership.
🔹 Systems Thinking — Ask the powerful question:
“How much might be there in the system?”

Look beyond individual behavior and explore the patterns, relationships, structures, and environment influencing your organization.
This is not just another leadership course.

It is an opportunity to examine how you show up as a leader, challenge traditional assumptions, and develop a leadership mindset suited for a world that is increasingly complex, interconnected, and unpredictable.

From competition → collaboration
From control → empowerment
From managing work → inspiring people
From individual performance → collective intelligence

📅 21–22–23 August
⏰ 6:00 PM – 11:30 PM IST
🎓 Certified Agile Leader (CAL-1)
👤 Nanda Lankalapalli CST & ICF Coach

Ideal for: Leaders | Managers | Agile Coaches | Scrum Masters | Change Agents | Emerging Leaders
📩 [email protected]
📞 7892945526

Let’s build leaders who inspire, empower, and create the future.