Tech Leadership Bootcamp

“Leadership in Self-Organised Teams”

Agile management practices are often borrowed from IT, and widely used in modern organizations. HR and Accounting departments are using Scrum. Project work is carried out by the small teams, within flat management hierarchies. However, in IT and as well in the other areas transitioning to the contemporary organizational models does not guarantee increased productivity, decreased operational costs and higher quality of work. In order to reach these goals, the teams must be prepared to work in the self-organized environment. Otherwise, work processes, created for the associates with the high levels of personal responsibility and engagement will not be effective. Direct managers and team leaders are making the most influence on their team members. They are creating the workplace culture and are the enablers of a breakthrough to a higher productivity level. The last Gallup study (2019), based on the statistics across the companies from 160 countries over the last 30 years, states that “the quality of managers and team leaders is the single biggest factor in your organization’s long-term success”. Within the scope of the workshop managers and team, leaders will learn the techniques of building strong, result-oriented teams. The workshop is based on the proven in practice contemporary “Teal” approaches to self- management and self-organization.

Goals of the workshop

• Develop an all-round understanding of the leader’s role in a self-organized team;
• Internalize the major teamwork competencies and the means to improve them;
• Get to know popular teamwork anti-patterns;
• Internalize the means of collaborative goal setting, and leveraging the associates’ self- control

P.S The space is limited for 9 people, if you are really interested, please sign up now.

Takeaways

Upon successful completion of the Bootcamp every participant:

Who should attend this Bootcamp

• Team leaders, technical leaders;
• Project managers, product managers;
• Founders of digital startups;
• IT-management professionals.

Has a comprehensive understanding of:

• Importance of teamwork for Agile transformation;
• Knowledge areas and skills, necessary for a leader of self-organized teams;
• State of the art practices, and knowledge sources for the contemporary approaches to team management. Knows:
• What kind of leader a self-organized team needs;
• Three levels of teamwork;
• Major competencies of an efficient team;
• Four levers a leader applies to influence a team. Is able to:
• Align a team with the company goals;
• Create a system of feedback loops for the self-control of the team members;
• Consistently evaluate and improve own leadership;
• Consistently work on improving team efficiency.

Agenda

1. Introduction 2. Leader’s role in a self-organized team

• Team leader’s skills
• Leader’s influence on the team members
• Goals and objectives of a leader in a self-organized team

3. Three levels of teamwork

• Overview of the three levels and examples of application
• Requirements to the team members on each level
• The role of the three levels in achieving synergy Major competencies of an efficient team
• Competencies overview and discussion
• Activity #1

5. Leader’s levers of influence in a team

• Overview of the four levers
• Activity #2
• Means of developing of the levers of influence
• Activity #3

6. The system of feedback loops for team members’ self-control

• Feedback types
• Feedback in the self-organized team
• Activity #4

7. Leadership self-assessment and continuous improvement

• The technique of continuous self-assessment and improvement
• Activity #5

8. Workshop debrief

Trainer:

Aleksandr Zuravliov