Inspired Agile Teams - Sept 30 Webinar

© 2020, Steven Wolff, Ram Srinivasan steve@stevenwolff.com ram@InnovAgility.com
INSPIRED AGILE TEAMS
Emotionally committed to support each
other to achieve a shared Vision
Dr. Steven Wolff
Steve@StevenWolff.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenbwolff
Ram Srinivasan
Ram@InnovAgility.com
https://linkedin.com/in/ramvasan

Agenda
1. The challenge...
2. Why after years of research do we
still have difficulty developing teams
3. Inspired Teams Framework
4. Provide practical tips you can use
when you go back to your team

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The Story of José

The Public Conversations
I am Sorry, I am late.
Yesterday….
Today…
Impediments...

Source: Tabrizi, B. (2015). 75% of
Cross-functional teams are
dysfunctional. Harvard Business
Review, (June), 2-4.

The Private Conversations
Slacker !
I am so
embarrassed.
Should I share my
private life here?
Does not care
about the team,
huh !!

Why?

Traditional
Teams
Emotionally
Intelligent
Teams
Inspired
Teams
Pace of Change
Complexity
Coordination Collaboration Acceleration
Team and VUCA Environment

I am noticing
that….
The Difficult Conversations
I am
embarrassed….

Implicit Behaviors/Actions
1. Ella was proactive. She saw something and she did something.
2. Made an observation. Made her inner awareness visible to the team.
3. Ella expressed her curiosity about what is going on.
4. Ella addressed individual performance. “Jose is coming in late.”
5. Ella addressed team performance. “Nobody is saying anything.”
6. Tried to understand what was going on for Jose.
7. Team addressed the issue in a caring and supportive manner.
8. They accepted Jose’s situation.
9. They remained optimistic that they could come up with a solution.
10. Experimented with a change in meeting time.

Explicit Agreements
ENERGY INNOVATION EXECUTION
TRANSPARENC
Y
● Understanding
● Caring
● Acceptance
● Curiosity
● Experiment
● Optimistic
● Proactive
● Integrity
● Visibility
● Individual
● Team

What is Culture?
From a Complex Systems Perspective
• Set of agreements. created either implicitly
or explicitly, about how people behave and
interact
• Want the agreements to be explicitly
created through conversation
These agreements are the generative
source (DNA) of observable behavior
(team traits)

Tip: Focus on the DNA
• Build the culture
– First question - How is the team
contributing to the individual
behavior?

Energy
► Purpose
• We understand and are committed to the team mission
► Acceptance
• Team members craft roles based on their aspirations and what
energizes them
► Understanding
• We understand what each person needs to be their best selves,
acknowledging strengths, weaknesses, concerns, and
aspirations
► Caring
• We support, validate, respect and appreciate so that team
members can be their best and reach their aspirations
Joy!

Transparency
► Individual
• We regularly provide feedback to each other to support team
member growth
► Team
• We regularly reflect on the team’s performance to create a shared
understanding of what we are doing well and where the
opportunities are for improvement
► Visibility
• We authentically share what we are thinking and feeling
► Context
• We gather information about our stakeholders and customers and
share that information
Courage through confronting reality

Innovation
► Optimism
• Our team sees obstacles, risks and setbacks as rally points
towards opportunities
► Failure
• Our team treats failure as part of the journey to success
► Experimentation
• Our team steps into trying something new even if it might
fail
► Curiosity
• Our team wonders why things are the way they are and we
challenge the status quo
Fearlessness

Execution
► Proactivity
• How do we remove obstacles to our progress?
► Integrity
• How do we have each person honor their own promises?
► Stakeholders
• Building Relationships outside your team
► Tools
• How do we make time and create a framework to have
tough conversations?
Empowerment through Accountability

Inspired Teams Framework

Tip: Iterate and Increment

What we did not cover here...
...and we will these cover in the Masterclass
• The distinct feel, language, and challenges of each
outcome so you can debug team dysfunctions
• Using the framework to identify conversations that
matter
• Creating new “tools” to help change habits
• Learning (retrospective) activities to help embody the
agreements and create new habits

What we did not cover here...
...and we will these cover in the Masterclass
Energy Innovation Execution Transparency
● Conflict
● Dysfunctional
members
● ...
● ...
● ...
● Risk Averse
● Blaming
● ...
● ...
● ...
● Repeating same
dysfunctional
behavior over and
over
● ...
● ...
● ...
● Not sharing
observations
● ...
● ...
● ...
An Example: Challenges in each outcome...

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Next Steps...
Inspired Agile Teams Masterclass
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group
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