How are you showing up to be your best daily?

location_city Denver schedule May 29th 12:45 - 01:45 PM MDT place Granite ABC people 95 Interested

Your Organization is Agile…YAY! You are working in a prescribed framework (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)…YAY! You are a part of a Dynamic team…YAY! You are all set and running as a defined High Performing team…NO! So, what is in the way? I can help answer that, it isn't just a team problem.


Through my experience in Agile environments, organizations check all the boxes for implementing agile, but forget the most important which are the behaviors. Over the years, I have started to focus on the behaviors needed in an agile environment. In this session you will look at what gets you excited? What makes you frustrated? What motivates you? How are you showing up? Are you owning your day or renting it? And why reflecting on these matters!

I will provide tools that we will use to identify personal behaviors and statements that you will be able to use not only within your profession, your team, your organization, but also in your daily life outside of the office.

Are you ready to show up to be your best?

 
 

Outline/Structure of the Talk

Information for Program Team:

Below is a general outline of this presentation:

  • Intro
    • History of implementations in Agile Environment – This is an open question to the group for people to share and grow this list
    • 1st re-org
    • 2nd get everyone trained
    • 3rd get teams formed
    • 4th now go be agile
  • Why this doesn't work?
    • Teams don’t have the necessary behaviours to support an agile environment
      • Most individuals came from siloed work environment and now need to share, collaborate, be transparent, come up with the “How”, be creative, deal with own conflict, experiment, etc.
    • Leadership don’t modify behaviours
      • “This doesn’t affect me, this is a team thing”
  • What we need first
    • Mindset
      • What does this mean?
        • Review Growth vs. Fixed mindset. What does it mean to have a Fixed mindset and how you can move into a Growth Mindset. Have a mindset survey to help identify where you are today. Pass out and review with the participants.
        • Review Agile Mindset. What does that mean? Successful agile environments start with an agile mindset, which is supported by the values and principles and then processes, tools organically show-up.
        • Experimenting mindset
          • Why is having an experimenting mindset so important? In an agile environment, we thrive and depend on feedback. Do you have the ability to look outside the box, to be creative and try new things within your team? Rather than repeating the way it has always been done. Are you looking at delivering value in a different way?
    • Supported Behaviors
      • Purpose - why does it matter to have purpose? Understanding who are you.
        Activity - Purpose statement. Take time to outline your own purpose statement “What is your life’s purpose?
      • Ownership/Renter
        • Do you own your own growth? If things happen in your environment do you own them or do you respond as a renter?
        • In your agile team, you need to have ownership. Question to the group – What might ownership look like in a team?
        • Do you have autonomy over your work? Do you have autonomy over your team? Do you have autonomy over how you do work?
        • Activity – Think of specific situation you are currently dealing with. Using the sphere of influence, What do you own? What can you influence? What is completely out of your control? This is an excellent exercise to help gain perspective to focus on the positives of any situation and what in that situation you can actually control. And if you there are things that you can’t control, how can you influence the situation?
      • Communication
        • In an agile environment being able to communicate is absolutely necessary. During team ceremonies, dashboards and more
    • How does this look in a team and what is needed?
      • Team dynamics – How do you work together as a team?
        • We have personalities, but can modify behaviours.
        • Meet people where they are? Be curious.
        • Many team performance indicators. Drexler/Sibbet, Tuckman’s, What else (Question to group)
      • Collaboration
        • What does collaboration mean? Why is it important in a team?
      • Conflict - how do you show up to conflict? Do you run? Do you face conflict?
        • In a team setting now conflict is more likely to occur as you have more people involved in the work.
        • What are some methods to handling conflict?
          • Conflict agreement protocol – tool to reference to take back and use
          • Understanding how you show up and how others show up during times of conflict
    • Reflecting
      • 1st regardless of any of it…Be kind to yourself. You are a constant work in progress and are amazing!
      • Activity - Wheel of life. To be used as an inquiry into further introspection.
    • Close
      • You can only control yourself, so understanding how you show up and how you interact with others is the most important thing.
      • Tools that you can use today. In a team. In your personal life.
      • Inquiry to the group – What is one thing that you are going to use immediately after leaving this room.

Learning Outcome

  • Uncover behaviors needed in an Agile environment.
  • Tools that can be applied immediately after the session to help uncover challenges, strengths and possibilities
  • Taking time to be introspective.

Target Audience

This would be beneficial for anyone.

Prerequisites for Attendees

There are no prerequisites for this session. This is targeted as an exploration into ourselves and our behaviors.

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