Don’t Demonize your Managers
As organizations start their Agile journey, very soon the question of “What’s to become of the Managers?” comes up.
Yesterday’s heroes and firefighters find themselves without a clear space or role.
But surely there is a better way of handling these managers and the expertise and experience that they bring with them.
Our managers can be re-imagined and flourish as mentors, as experts, as change agents.
We would like to share the new avatar that our erstwhile managers can adopt in the new world while continuing with some of their existing responsibilities.
Also a few tips and tricks to make managers our allies in the quest for Agility.
Outline/Structure of the Talk
Introduction / Context Setting (~5 minutes)
Managers viewed as the fifth wheel (~10 minutes)
Managers Re-imagined (~10 minutes)
Tips and Tricks to ally with Managers (presented as experiments)
- What works (~5 minutes)
- What doesn’t work (~5 minutes)
Learning Outcome
The audience will hear about common challenges that organizations face in understanding the role of Managers in a new Agile set up.
They will also learn how Managers can be made partners in being Agile.
Practical tips and experiments to try in Organizations to make managers an integral part of the team's transformation to high-performing teams .
Target Audience
Agile Leaders, Change Agents, Agile Coaches, Managers
Video
Links
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWtSeJiYsOo
https://vinayamuralidharan.wordpress.com/
http://www.slideshare.net/vinayamuralidharan
https://in.linkedin.com/in/vinayamuralidharan
https://in.linkedin.com/in/carolmathrani
@vinaya1980
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