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The Agile Gardener
Deepa Kartha | CEO, Journyz
BUILDING SUCCESSFUL REMOTE TEAMS
Popi Makris | The Agile Gardener
2. AGENDA
• Introductions – Presenters and Audience
• Understanding Self, Team and Organization
• Facilitation for Remote Team Success
• Journyz Demo
• Wrap Up and Next Steps
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3. Name
Location
What would you like to take away from this session?
INTRODUCTONS
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4. name location Initial input
naghma NY HR business partner, srartup 13 yaers old, fast moving, remote
working is new, hourly rep level employees, prodcution, culture,
engagement
Joyce UK interested in getting ideas to support virtual team engagement?
how to support team and individual priorities and performance
remotely, managing priorities and performance. government
Murali nair tenessee project management, agile, scaling agile teams, manage large
programs, require face to face meetings
Raju nair Jeddah large retailer, working, wfh setup new experiemce, settign up a
culture. balmve between output and culturre
12. TEAM VISION & IDENTITY
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13. LIFE CYCLE OF A TEAM
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14. CHARACTERISTICS OF HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS
• Purpose and Vision
• Alignment – Self-Organizing
• Charter and Norms
• Trust
• Respect
• Discussion and Contribution
• Collaboration
• Goals – Individual and Team
• Conflict and Feedback
No individual members are more important
than the team.
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16. ROLE OF THE ORGANIZATION
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18. DEVELOPMENT OF TEAM SKILLS
• Communication
• Facilitation
• Active Listening
• Transparency
• Engagement
• Collaboration
• Team Development & Maturity
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19. COMMUNICATION
• Consider the size of the team (ideally 3-9).
• Has everyone had an opportunity to voice
their opinion / thoughts (i.e. round robin)
• “how you say something determines how it
is heard”
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20. FACILITATION
Definition
“the designing and running of successful
meetings and workshops in organizational
settings” – Wikipedia
Effective Meetings
• Clear objective (agenda)
• Audience
• ‘Facilitated’
• Timebox
• Follow-up
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21. ACTIVE LISTENING
Be Present and Remove
Distractions
Ask Open-Ended / Probing /
Powerful Questions
Observe Body Language
Listen for Emotions and Feelings
Paraphrase
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22. POWERFUL QUESTIONS
• If you had your choice, what would you do?
• What do you make of it all?
• What have you tried so far?
• What are other angles you can think of?
• What else?
• And if that fails, what will you do?
• If you could do it over again, what would you do differently?
• What is stopping you?
• What information do you need before you decide?
• What is the worst thing that could happen?
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26. CONTACT US
Deepa Kartha, CEO Zinda Inc
deepa@journyz.com
www.journyz.com
Popi Makris, The Agile Gardener™
theagilegardener@gmail.com
336.301.9853 / 312.560.2572
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