Certified Agile Leadership

Pecha Kucha

Fall 2018

Mgmt history

Lead self first Experiments lead by leadership

Gary Hamel:

The Future of Management

Most management techniques were created for an entirely different system. One where we were bringing consistency to unskilled workers.

Innovation is the work of today.

Why Agile?

Agile works well for innovative work (you haven't done it before).

 

Iterative, over incremental. 

 

3 Types of Leaders

Where are you? 

Expert

Exactly how we traditionally promote [tech] managers!

Achiever

Results oriented.

Aim is to get everyone on board.

Catalyst

Has vision, creates safety, enables the best ideas to come forward.

 

About building this capability in the organization.

My ah-has:

1. If a catalyst, you may change your mode depending on the context.

2. Catalyst leaders need to communicate clear goals and boundaries.

 

4 Types of Orgs

Need to understand the mode the company's natural mode.

 

Control

Compete

Collaborate

Create

We Value...

Individuals and interactions (collaborate)

 

Working products (compete)

 

Customer collaboration (create/collab)

 

Responding to change (create)

Over

Processes and tools (control)

 

Comprehensive documentation (control)

 

Contract negotiation (control)

 

Following a plan (control)

Cognitive threat

All of the things that I do (culture change, process change, training) may leave those around me in a threat response. 

 

What can I do to limit this and provide a sense of safety?

Having hard conversations

Five steps, we may rotate through a few before we get to sharing.

Leading Change

Vision created by a powerful coalition

Prioritize experiments, deliver with discipline

Focus on the structure

Culture change is a hard thing to do.

 

Use an approach that complements the organization.  

Learning and Development

Do we think of our training and our goals as a transition? 

 

If so, do we have a guiding coalition? Who decides on the experiments? 

Training goals (for myself) 

• Practice visual facilitation
• Games are good
• Get people moving around (lots of different groups)

How my thinking changed

• L&D is in a catalyst world, do our leaders share that vision? 
• How can we partner with leaders to support them leading the changes they want?
• Reminder: It's not about getting people on the bus, it's about making the bus the most awesome place to be.