2. Opening Exercise – Part 1
Solo Work: Think of a tense or edgy situation you
were in recently
• Maybe a meeting or a 1:1 conversation
• Be specific – jot some notes down… key points
• Who was at their edge to begin with?
• What happened next? What did you do (or not do)?
• How effective was the result? How well did were people’s needs
met? (make a guess and apply a % estimate to it?)
3. Purpose:
To introduce a powerful perspective
and tools to support your growth as
an Agile Leader.
4. Desired Outcomes:
By the end of this session you will:
• have an overview of the Leadership 360 model
• have identified some specific strategies for working with
reactive tendencies
• know what to do to deepen your own and others’ learning
• understand of some of the Inconvenient Truths about
Agile Leadership
10. Opening Exercise Part 2 – Pairs/Triads
Discuss what happened in your tense or edgy
situations:
• Which reactive behaviors did you notice in
others in your scenarios?
• Which reactive behaviors did you notice in
yourself in your scenarios?
• Label your index cards accordingly
12. Opening Exercise – Debrief
Straw poll: How many…
• Complying behaviors in others?
• Protecting behaviors in others?
• Controlling behaviors in others?
What do you make of the distribution in the room?
Self?
Self?
Self?
15. Leadership in Complex Adaptive Systems
Leadership in
Complicated Systems
Role defining
Decision making
Tight structuring
Knowing
Staying the course
Leadership in
Adaptive Systems
Relationship building
Sense making
Loose coupling
Learning
Notice emergent directions
16. Adaptive Work
1. Requires NEW Approaches
2. Demands Learning
3. Distributes Responsibility
4. Generates Resistance/Fear/Loss
5. Demands Experimentation
6. Has Unknown Timelines
7. Develops NEW Cultural Norms
27. Which is YOUR dominant Reactive Style?
Write it down!
Straw Poll: Based on what you’ve learned so far
• Who is Complying?
• Who is Protecting?
• Who is Controlling?
What do you make of the distribution in the room?
Exercise: Invoking the Wheel DEBRIEF
28. Inconvenient Truth #3
We all need to manage our
reactive tendencies
in order to powerfully influence
that good work happens.
30. Exercise: Working with Reactive Personas
• Get back into your pair/triad
• 8 min to talk about new strategies
• Capture what you discover on your worksheets
31.
32. Inconvenient Truth #4
We are responsible for our own
experience and self-management
whether we are the boss, a
subordinate or a peer...
33. Or Opportunity…
When we are responsible for our
own experience we can be
leaderful whether we are the boss,
a subordinate or a peer...
35. Now what?
• Email me to get a more detailed description of the
reactive dimensions and strategies
• Invite us for a brown bag lunch for your organization
• Evaluate the leadership culture in your organization
and across teams