{"id":19104,"date":"2025-07-07T13:57:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T11:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scrumacademy.nl\/blog\/video-het-geheim-van-veilige-getallen\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T13:57:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T11:57:25","slug":"video-het-geheim-van-veilige-getallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scrumacademy.nl\/en\/blog\/video-het-geheim-van-veilige-getallen\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: The secret of safe numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"intro\"><strong>Psychological security and numbers? Doesn&#8217;t immediately sound like the most logical combination. Yet it&#8217;s a holy grail for creative teams, thinks Trainer and Agile Coach Anton Vanhoucke.  <\/strong> <strong>Because by using safe numbers, you ensure that teams become more innovative, motivated and inspired. But as a manager or team leader, how do you ensure that your team(s), on the one hand, thus work more empirically and data-driven, and yet remain very creative? <\/strong> <strong>Don&#8217;t use grades as a judgment model<\/strong>. <strong>Find out immediately in this vlog what we can and cannot learn from high school teachers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"intro\">In this vlog, Anton talks more about:  <\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>empirical and data-driven work;<\/li><li>safely handling strategic targets;<\/li><li>facilitative leadership;<\/li><li>The difference between worthwhile goals and targets;<\/li><li><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, \" segoe=\"\" ui=\"\" roboto=\"\" oxygen-sans=\"\" ubuntu=\"\" cantarell=\"\" neue=\"\" sans-serif=\"\">subordinating numbers to goals.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"????  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