The document discusses strategies for enabling high-performance teams through an agile approach, focusing on the characteristics and habits that define such teams. It highlights the importance of adapting leadership mindsets, fostering collaboration, and recognizing the unique traits of millennials within teams. Additionally, it outlines actionable steps for organizations to build a high-performance culture by establishing clear goals, metrics, and a supportive environment.

1. Enabling High Performance Teams : The
Agile Way
Syed Nazir Razik
Syntel Global Development Center, Chennai
January 29, 2016

2. Board Member & Vice President
Vice President ,
Aerospace and Defense Industry
Association of Tamil Nadu
Social Media Strategist
Agile Mentor for ACP & Beyond

3. Agenda
 Millennial Workforce and the Deloitte Report
 What are High Performance Teams
 HP and its relevance to Organizational teams
 Top 10 attributes of High Performance
 The Agile, Lean Practice fit
 Team Readiness to high performance
 Change in Leadership mindset
 First things First

4. Focus
Millennial Teams
Leadership and
Engagement
Facilitating High
Performance Culture
Advantages
Need for High
Performance
Teams
Characteristic of
High
Performance
Agile tools
and Practices

5. Millennials
Also called Generation Y whose birth year
ranging from the early 1980s to the early
2000s.
• 50 percent of Millennials consider
themselves politically unaffiliated.
• 29 percent consider themselves
religiously unaffiliated.
• They have the highest average number
of Facebook friends, with an average of
250 friends vs. Generations X's 200.
• 55 percent have posted a selfie or more
to social media sites versus 20 percent
of Generation X.
• 8 percent of Millennials claim to
have sexted, whereas 30 percent claim
to have received sexts
Source: PEW Research

6. Growth of Millennials

7. Align
Purpose
Source : Deloitte Report

8. Influencing factors of Millennials @ Team
Source : Deloitte Report

9. Millennial team priorities
Source : Deloitte Report

12. Agile Practice empowers
High Performance
Agile Practice focus on
 Creating a collaborative
environment.
 Focus on Group goals
than individual goals
 Encouraging Team
interaction
 Team intelligence
precedes Individual

13. Project Leaders need to factor all
these forces that impact team
performance
Factors influencing
Project teams

14. Characteristics of High Performance Teams

15. 12 Habits of High Performance Team
• Lead by Example
• Individual Vs Team benefit
• Strategy before Technology
• Listen to team
• Integrate workflow
• Measure
• Create supportive Envnmt
• Collaborate
• Adapt & Evolve
"Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a
company work, a society work, a civilization work." --Vince Lombardi

16. Team Culture Matters

18. Steps towards High Performance Organization
• Define your business and build a strategy
• Define your Values
• Know and Serve your customer
• Create “Learning” Culture
• Create “Earning” Culture
• Develop a Metric for measure
• Communicate and Communicate
• Recognize and Reward top performance
• Harness Technology, tools and Practices

19. Factors to consider on
grooming High
Performance
"Teamwork is the ability to
work together toward a
common vision. The ability
to direct individual
accomplishments toward
organizational objectives. It
is the fuel that allows
common people to attain
uncommon results." --
Andrew Carnegie

20. How to build High Performance Teams
 Respect Each team members opinion
 Protect your team from all evil
 Effective decision making
 Measure Progress and provide feedback
 Set up clear process, checkpoints and Metrics
 Effective Team Meetings and Conflict Resolution
 Build capability and career path for each individual
"Remember, teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to
overcome our need for invulnerability." --Patrick Lencioni

21. Social Media for Chapters
"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each
member is the team." --Phil Jackson

23. Servant Leader empowers High
Performance Teams
Servant Leaders :
 Are self-aware.
 Listen.
 Share the power.
 Help other people grow.
 Coach people, not control them
 Collaborates , not dictates
 Unleash the energy and intelligence of others.
 Work to develop their foresight, so they can act, not react
 Doesn’t control team member actions but offers possibilities

24. Servant Leader Mind set
Language of a Servant Leader:
1. I am proud of you.
2. I trust our team.
3. What do you think?
4. How can I help?
5. I was wrong, I am sorry.

25. Next steps ….. First things First
 Listen, Listen, Listen
 Flat and Lean hierarchy . Align Shared values
 HP requires a new set of glasses for serving your team
 Easy Goals, Hard stretchable Goals, Impossible goals .
From a Motivation perspective set hard goals
 Our vision/values must be both articulated and lived, and
our vision must be translated into a shared action plan
 Organizations have problem seekers and Problem
Solvers. Empower your team to be problem solvers

26. Thank You !
U can reach me
Twitter @joesat @pmichennai
Mail : syed@pmi-chennai.org