Want an awesome team that builds great products? Great teams don’t happen by accident and they don't have to take a long time to build. In this keynote, Richard lays out the case for Continuous (Extreme) Teaming. Session participants will join in a flight of fun learning activity-sets. These will give you a taste of team awesomeness and how to start when you go back to work. Richard builds on the work of Jim and Michele McCarthy, Bruce Tuckman, Gamasutra, Standish Group, Peter Drucker, and Melvin Conway. His learning activity-sets are short games, using elements from improvisational theater, The Core Protocols, Extreme Programming, and more. Who should attend? Anyone who wants to create a great team and build great products. You’ll leave having embodied the essential elements of accelerated continuous team-building and awesomeness maintenance. For those who want to get the most out of the session and activities, Richard suggests that you get a copy of his book, The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness, read with a marker pen, and come with questions about who, when, and where to use a protocol.

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Awesome Teams
Games for Continuous (Extreme?) Teaming
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Richard Kasperowski
I help people build great teams that get
great results.
Core Protocols
Agile
Open Space Technology
@rkasper

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What is the best team you were
ever on?

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Do you want more of
that?
Practical guide to the elements of great
teams
Practice a subset of Core Protocols
Fun activities!

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Why this, why now?

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Positive Bias
Non-negativity
No negation
Pretend

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Try it: Yes, but …
• With a partner, make a plan for dinner tonight.
• Yes, but … (60 seconds)
• Yes, and … (60 seconds)

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Freedom
• Why: Basis of great culture
• How
• The Core Commitments (p. 3)
• Pass (Unpass) (p. 5)
• Check Out (p. 7)

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Self-awareness
• Why: A great self is atomic unit of a
great team
• How
• Check In (p. 6)
• Ask For Help (p. 8)
• Personal Alignment (p. 18)

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I feel _______.
MAD, SAD, GLAD, AFRAID
Describe to yourself why you feel that way.

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Try it: Check In
• Speaker says, “I feel [one or more of MAD, SAD, GLAD, AFRAID].”
Speaker may add a brief explanation. Speaker may say, “I pass.”
• Speaker says, “I’m in.”
• Listeners respond, “Welcome.”
• Groups of 3, 3 minutes

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I want _____________.
Self-awareness*
Integrity
Courage
Passion
Peace
Presence
Self-care
Fun
Wisdom
Health

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Try it: Super-fast Personal Alignment
• Complete this
sentence:
• “I want ___________.”
• Fill in the blank with a
virtue from this list:
Self-awareness
(default answer),
Integrity, Courage,
Passion, Peace,
Presence, Self-care,
Fun, Wisdom, Health
• To guide you:
• Imagine it is the only
thing you want.
• Imagine you single-
mindedly pursued it.
• Imagine that if you
had all of it that the
universe has to offer,
you could obtain
everything else you
want.
• Solo, 2 minutes
• See Personal Alignment
& Personal Alignment
Express at
thecoreprotocols.org

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Connection
• Why: Connect great people into a great
team, totally cohesive and supporting
each other toward shared goal
• How
• Check In (p. 6)
• Ask For Help (p. 8)
• Intention Check (p. 11)
• Personal Alignment (p. 18)
• Investigate (p. 20)

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I’m curious.
Will you tell me more about _________________?

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Try it: Investigate
• Learn about your partners’ Personal Alignment.
• Be curious. Don’t ask leading questions. Don’t push help on your
partners.
• Try opening with “What is your Personal Alignment?” or “What do
you want?”
• Same group of 3, 5 minutes

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Friendship
Continuous Friendship

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Productivity
• Why: Align together, deliver great
products, achieve great results
• How
• Decider (p. 12)
• Resolution (p. 15)
• Perfection Game (p. 16)

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Error Handling
• Why: Ensure we are maintaining
freedom, self-awareness,
connection, and productivity
• How
• Protocol Check (p. 10)

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Continuous (Extreme) Teaming
• Turn up the good!
• Team building event once a year all the time
• Continuous Check In
• Continuous Ask for Help
• Continuous Investigate
• Continuous Friendship
• Continuous Decision Making
• Test-Driven Teaming
• Continuous Core Protocols

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Try it: Your next step
• Which of these tools will you try with your team next week?
• Test Driven Teaming
• Write a test on a business card. Give it to your partner. Your partner will execute the test
later.
• Example
• Christophe, will you run this test on Tuesday?
• Assertion: I Investigated my boss.
• In pairs, 2 minutes

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Will you help me make this
presentation the best?
Perfection Game

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Key take-aways
• The attributes and behaviors of
high-performance teams are known
and learnable.
• Core Protocols →
team emotional intelligence →
psychological safety →
high-performance team
• Continuous Teaming:
Turn up the good!
Team building is good.
Use Core Protocols to do team
building all the time.

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To Learn More
• Ask Richard for help
• Visit thecoreprotocols.org
• Events: kasperowski.com

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Richard Kasperowski
I help people build great teams that get
great results.
Core Protocols
Agile
Open Space Technology
@rkasper