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		<title>Stop That Mole Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[©2010 Steven M. Smith Do you have a mole undermining the work of your team? Someone who constantly complains privately to any teammate who will listen but refuses to bring that same complaint publicly to the team? Someone whose actions &#8230; <a href="http://www.ayeconference.com/stop-that-mole-now/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Facilitation Skills for Teams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(c) 2004-2010 Esther Derby Self-organizing teams don&#8217;t just organize the technical work. They make technical (and non-technical) decisions. Not every situation requires facilitation, but when a team faces an important decision, applying facilitation skills to the problem saves time and &#8230; <a href="http://www.ayeconference.com/self-facilitation-skills-for-teams/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Skills for Software Smoke Jumpers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#169;2007 Don Gray Do you know about smokejumpers? They&#8217;re brave, self-sufficient firefighters who parachute into remote areas wearing eighty pounds of gear and ready to fight a forest fire. If the jump goes well, they land safely. After extinguishing the &#8230; <a href="http://www.ayeconference.com/skills-for-software-smoke-jumpers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>When Your Projects Are a Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[©2009 Johanna Rothman. I was supposed to start coaching with a project manager, Trish. She postponed our weekly coaching call&#8211;for the third time. I said, &#8220;Trish, are you postponing again because you have too much work to do?&#8221; &#8220;Yes!&#8221; &#8220;Then &#8230; <a href="http://www.ayeconference.com/when-your-projects-are-a-program/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Framing Your Thoughts for Management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#169;2009 Steven M. Smith, www.stevenMsmith.com You have what you believe is an important thought to share with management. You&#8217;re concerned though that management may dislike what they hear. How do you assess how safe it is to share your thought &#8230; <a href="http://www.ayeconference.com/framing-your-thoughts-for-management/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Coaching Whiners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ban whining. It's destructive communication inside organizations. Read this story about how a manager coached an employee to transform a whine into a complaint with recommendation. <a href="http://www.ayeconference.com/coaching-whiners/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Facilitating a Temperature Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have posted my article about facilitating a Temperature Reading. The article was lifted from the handouts for the AYE Warmup Tutorial so it also serves as an example of the quality of the material that Don Gray and I &#8230; <a href="http://www.ayeconference.com/facilitating-a-temperature-reading/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Temperature Reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#169;2009 Steven M. Smith, www.stevenMsmith.com Virginia Satir developed this method for discovering a group&#8217;s temperature &#8212; what we in technology often call the system&#8217;s state. A facilitator leads the discovery. He or she keeps the group focused on each agenda &#8230; <a href="http://www.ayeconference.com/temperature-reading/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Virtual Cyber Cudgel &#8211; Working with or against your users?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How many different ways can you aggravate and confuse the people who are subjected to using your software? In this week&#8217;s new article The Virtual Cyber Cudgel, Jerry Weinberg shares some of the data input hoops he&#8217;s jumped through.]]></description>
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		<title>Why Choose AYE?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In these days when money is short, lots of people cannot afford to participate all the conferences they might have attended last year. Money may be the first criterion for choosing conferences, but it&#8217;s not the only one. Here are &#8230; <a href="http://www.ayeconference.com/why-choose-aye/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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