There’s quite a bit of guidance and literature for Teams to know what to do in order to adopt and execute Scrum. Nowadays, it’s even more commonplace for Executives to be offered similar workshops, so they have an idea how to support the Teams. But what about the Managers?

From experiences in the field, Managers are often forgotten, or just lumped in with the teams. With confusing phrases such as self-organization and Servant Leadership bumping up against traditional management beliefs and demands from non-trained Executives in Scrum, it’s no wonder Managers can feel a bit like they’ve entered into the Land of the Lost.

In this interactive session, come learn an exercise you can perform back at your organization to help clarify roles and responsibilities of the management layer. Your managers will gain clarity on what they should be doing and what they should be passing on to help not only their teams perform better, but the organization as well. Equip your managers with the knowledge to help them no longer be lost.

As a bonus, the great thing about this Roles exercise, is that it can be used beyond the Managers as well. It’s been applied at both the Team and Executive layers. But, seems to resonate best with Management.

Collaboration is essential for any project or program success, especially in Agile. Over the years, I have found one of the key ingredients for better collaboration is to first understand how I and others react to situations. When I am aware of how I best communicate and interact with others (along with my triggers), it keeps two-way conversations open and flowing. And it’s this openness that enables effective collaboration, leading to better innovation and results that our stakeholders can see.

In this high energy, interactive session, we’ll take a unique approach to collaboration by focusing in on awareness of how you and others react to situations. We’ll first talk briefly about communication and collaboration with a dash on self-assessments. From there, we’ll dive into approximating your DISC profile and what that means for collaboration. We’ll finish up applying the concepts learned, to help you not only create environments you and your colleagues can flourish in, but how to get challenges back on track as well.