This document provides an overview of what to expect from an upcoming presentation on agile engagement, leadership, and quality. The presentation will take a human-centric perspective and cover these topics in 3 parts over approximately 4 timeboxes of 20 minutes each. It will include short introductory videos and discussions of how to increase employee engagement through meaningful goals and rich work, challenges of leadership, and creating a culture where people feel responsible and motivated. The goal is to possibly challenge perspectives and connect ideas around increasing engagement and effective leadership.
An exploration of the relationship between employee engagement and leadership, and how they might affect quality. Includes references to external sources.
Our latest white paper shares new global research based on 7000 employee surveys in the US, Brazil, UK, Germany, Australia, Singapore and China, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. We look at questions like: Can anyone be creative? How do employers build creative cultures? Is playing at work the answer? What are the business rewards of inspiring creativity—and the risks of failing to?
Leadership Challenge co-author Jim Kouzes on Great Leadership WebinarFlashPoint
The key to making extraordinary things happen in organizations is great leadership. It contributes more to positive outcomes than any other single factor. In this webcase by researcher and author Jim Kouzes, the link between Engagement and Leadership is explored. Underwritten by Sonoma Leadersip Systems and hosted by HCI.org. The recorded version is available at:
http://www.hci.org/lib/great-leadership-creates-great-workplaces
An exploration of the relationship between employee engagement and leadership, and how they might affect quality. Includes references to external sources.
Our latest white paper shares new global research based on 7000 employee surveys in the US, Brazil, UK, Germany, Australia, Singapore and China, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. We look at questions like: Can anyone be creative? How do employers build creative cultures? Is playing at work the answer? What are the business rewards of inspiring creativity—and the risks of failing to?
Leadership Challenge co-author Jim Kouzes on Great Leadership WebinarFlashPoint
The key to making extraordinary things happen in organizations is great leadership. It contributes more to positive outcomes than any other single factor. In this webcase by researcher and author Jim Kouzes, the link between Engagement and Leadership is explored. Underwritten by Sonoma Leadersip Systems and hosted by HCI.org. The recorded version is available at:
http://www.hci.org/lib/great-leadership-creates-great-workplaces
“The Leadership Challenge” - Kouzes & Posner Model
People often hesitate when they are asked to talk about their most admired leaders. Many of the greatest leaders mentioned are dead, and it seems much easier to think of examples of bad leadership. Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, authors of “The Leadership Challenge®”, collected thousands of stories about extraordinary leadership as part of an intensive research project to determine the characteristics of the most successful leaders. There are many useful leadership models, but the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® revealed by the Kouzes-Posner study is one of the most memorable and easy to implement. This module enables people who wish to become great leaders to learn and adopt the practices of “model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process, enable other people to act, and encourage the heart” with immediate and dramatically improved results.
This is a presentation I made to help teach my Leadership Senior Seminar class how to Challenge the Process. Hope others can find it to be helpful! It is based from the book called "The Leadership Challenge"
How are Australia’s states and territories performing?
Each quarter CommSec attempts to find out by analysing eight key indicators: economic growth; retail spending; equipment investment; unemployment; construction work done; population growth; housing finance and dwelling commencements.
State of the States January 2016: NSW retains the top spotCommSec
NSW has retained top spot as the best performing economy, edging a little further ahead of Victoria. Both states are maintaining a healthy lead over the other states and territories. The big change over the past quarter has been the lift of the ACT economy to equal third position alongside the Northern Territory.
“The Leadership Challenge” - Kouzes & Posner Model
People often hesitate when they are asked to talk about their most admired leaders. Many of the greatest leaders mentioned are dead, and it seems much easier to think of examples of bad leadership. Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, authors of “The Leadership Challenge®”, collected thousands of stories about extraordinary leadership as part of an intensive research project to determine the characteristics of the most successful leaders. There are many useful leadership models, but the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® revealed by the Kouzes-Posner study is one of the most memorable and easy to implement. This module enables people who wish to become great leaders to learn and adopt the practices of “model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process, enable other people to act, and encourage the heart” with immediate and dramatically improved results.
This is a presentation I made to help teach my Leadership Senior Seminar class how to Challenge the Process. Hope others can find it to be helpful! It is based from the book called "The Leadership Challenge"
How are Australia’s states and territories performing?
Each quarter CommSec attempts to find out by analysing eight key indicators: economic growth; retail spending; equipment investment; unemployment; construction work done; population growth; housing finance and dwelling commencements.
State of the States January 2016: NSW retains the top spotCommSec
NSW has retained top spot as the best performing economy, edging a little further ahead of Victoria. Both states are maintaining a healthy lead over the other states and territories. The big change over the past quarter has been the lift of the ACT economy to equal third position alongside the Northern Territory.
En monitoreo penitenciario es una forma en que el Poder Judicial y otros entes pueden velar de forma estructurada por la condición de los privados de libertad. En este caso en Costa Rica.
These are our flip chart "slides" from a DevOps conference that Angie Doyle and I recently presented at. The use of visual thinking in teams is always underrated, especially when unpacking complex problems.
We didn't use any PowerPoint, it was all presented using hand drawn images on flip charts.
American Society for Quality - Employee Engagement Presentation TalentMap
Employee Engagement : Moving the Needle on Quality
This lecture is designed to demonstrate how engaged employees positively impact quality. Sean will expand on how employees become engaged and stay engaged. He will use statistics to identify how engaged employees impact quality results and processes. All audience members will be equipped with talent solutions that they can immediately implement in their workplace to impact the organization’s human capital results and their quality-related bottom line performance.
Session Description:
TalentMap’s proven Best Practices are shared and elaborated on. What has TalentMap heard employees/employers from hundreds of corporations share with us? What do they need and want to become and stay engaged employees? How have the engagement elements been impacted by quality programs and implementation plans put in place by corporations? These questions and many more are addressed when Sean Fitzpatrick shares ideas, approaches and business practices on employee engagement and how it impacts corporate culture and quality. We will address:
-Statistics from TalentMap’s extensive database that identify how engaged employees improve on quality
-What TalentMap has learned and heard from employees when surveying their corporate culture that impacts quality
-How to implement action plans with accountabilities from an engagement survey
Once you have surveyed identify how you work on making the changes that will impact your corporate engagement levels:
-what are the quick wins
- plan for the strategic gains
- looking at impact vs. cost
- how you deliver what you have promised
- importance of measuring your programs
- who should be involved in the planning,delivery and implementation
Our Client will then address what they have experienced, learned and implemented on during and after their Employee Engagement survey. Once you have all the data and information how do you set priorities, how do you roll them out, who implements and how do you measure success, how you get the buy-in in a unionized environment?
Exploring managers’ wellbeing, motivation and productivity. 'Always on managers' are now working 29 days extra a year and are suffering rising levels of stress according to the 2016 Quality of Working Life study.
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Authentic Leadership - Focusing on Strengths and SolutionsTim Bright
My presentation at the 5th Bursa Management Conference in December 2012. The conference is organised by the Bursa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BTSO) and Peryon (the HR association).
For years, manufacturing companies have been striving towards enterprise excellence throughout their organizations utilizing the philosophy, thinking and tools of lean. There are two basic pillars of lean including continuous improvement tools, and respect for people. There has been a very strong focus on the continuous improvement tools (kaizens, value stream mapping, A3 problem solving, 5S, cells/flow, setup reduction, etc.) with very little emphasis on respect for people. Businesses struggle with understanding the skills and abilities of leadership at every level of the organization required to inspirationally lead towards excellence.
As a result of the combination of the process initiatives over the past 100 years, seven out of eight people report leaving their jobs each day feeling that they work for a company that does not care about them. People are disengaged and unenthusiastic about their work resulting in huge losses of productivity to the entire organization.
Recently, the Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME), the premier not-for-profit organization dedicated to the journey of continuous improvement and enterprise excellence, invited Barry-Wehmiller to partner with them in addressing the challenges facing manufacturing today. Together they hope to lead the way in transforming manufacturing companies through adoption of people-centric leadership practices. Their vision is to ignite a manufacturing renaissance driven by people-centric leadership coupled with enterprise excellence.
For more information about this topic at the AME Boston 2017 Conference, visit http://bit.ly/2oHMiTh
Reinventing the way human organizations workEmanuele Musa
"Many founders of organizations, leaders, employees, coaches, and advisors sense that something is broken in the way we run organizations today and feel that something entirely different is called for…… but wonder what that might be."
The presentation showcases a new set of management principles and practices, that has inspired thousands of organizations throughout the world to take a radical leap, and become places of passion and purpose, capable of providing an environment wherein people feel free to fully express themselves, bringing unprecedented levels of energy, passion, and creativity to work.
Based on the work of Frederic Laloux, Ricardo Semler, Michael Pirson, Isaac Getz, Don Beck, Bruce Schneider, the presentaiton aims to invent a more powerful, more soulful, more meaningful way to work together, if only we change our belief system.
Slides from the Peer Academy class on Appreciative Inquiry hosted by Max Hardy. All rights are reserved by Max Hardy as the creator of this presentation.
The slides guide the rationales behind the sluggishness or laid-back nature of job holders; it invokes a study of a famous author as as to substantiate its claims.
Dave Moran's Agile Expectations presentation from Agile Maine Day, April 26, 2019. The objective is to help identify key sources of organizational friction as well as understanding where to establish a new set of Agile Expectations for how your organization in order to fully transform into a highly productive, agile organization.
Alan Seale - Tools to Navigate Uncertainty & Complexity - agilemaine
Join author, coach, and Transformation Catalyst Alan Seale for an experiential evening of discovery and learning about how to navigate uncertainty and complexity. Interactive in nature, this evening will focus on practical yet powerful and immediately applicable tools to assist you and your teams in today's rapidly changing working environment.
Alan Seale is the founder of the Center for Transformational Presence, author of 7 books, and the creator of the Transformational Presence Leadership and Coach training program with graduates from 35 countries. This evening workshop will offer you a taste of how he works with the global-level leadership of his primary corporate client, IKEA, as well as with entrepreneurs and small businesses. Truly a global coach, Alan serves clients from 6 continents and maintains a full teaching schedule throughout the Americas and Europe.
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As a business owner in Delaware, staying on top of your tax obligations is paramount, especially with the annual deadline for Delaware Franchise Tax looming on March 1. One such obligation is the annual Delaware Franchise Tax, which serves as a crucial requirement for maintaining your company’s legal standing within the state. While the prospect of handling tax matters may seem daunting, rest assured that the process can be straightforward with the right guidance. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll walk you through the steps of filing your Delaware Franchise Tax and provide insights to help you navigate the process effectively.
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2. WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT TONIGHT
• A journey through little “a” agile, not big “A” Agile in 3 parts:
engagement, leadership, and a bit on quality.
• A perspective that is biased toward the human element of
organizations.
• Possibly to challenge your own internal status quo.
• To connect a few dots in a vast ocean of ideas and information.
• A bit of a firehose; listen for the ideas you need to hear.
• Strive for 4 20-minute timeboxes.
• First, a couple short videos…
3. THE WORLD HAS CHANGED
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOJbM0aXZp0
5. WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT REDBULL’S F1 TEAM
• Won four consecutive world titles for both the car and driver
2010-2013.
• Pit crew set and broke world record for tire changes 5 times; currently
under 2 seconds.
• Seek to make racing fun again!
• Even before they were winning, when they couldn’t even finish
races!
• Has struggled to regain dominance after new engine regulations.
• Staying on top, even for the best in the world, is extremely
tenuous and risky!
7. THERE ARE NO NEW IDEAS
“Your firms are built on the Taylor model. Even worse so are your heads.
With your bosses doing the thinking while workers wield the screwdrivers,
you’re convinced deep down that is the right way to run a business. For the
essence of management is getting the ideas out of the heads of the bosses
and into the heads of labour.
“We are beyond your mindset. Business, we know, is now so complex and
difficult, the survival of firms so hazardous in an environment increasingly
unpredictable, competitive and fraught with danger, that their continued
existence depends on the day-to-day mobilisation of every ounce of
intelligence.” - Konosuke Matsushita
8. YOUR TURN!
• Stand up!
• Think back to a time when you were deeply, highly engaged. A time
when time fell away, when every ounce of your intelligence was
mobilized. It could be any context; work, school, community service,
family, etc.
• Turn to someone next to you and share your experiences; 2 minutes
each!
• We already know what engagement feels like!
• Stay standing if you’ve been highly engaged at work in the last year…
9. THERE IS AN ENGAGEMENT CRISIS
• Gallup and others peg employee engagement in the US at around
30%
• So what?
• “Employee engagement drives the bottom line” – Teresa Amabile
• So how to increase engagement?
• Measurable daily progress against meaningful goals.
• Rich inner life.
source: Amabile, Teresa and Kramer, Steven. The Progress Principle. 2011. Harvard Business School Press, Boston
10. A BRIEF THOUGHT EXPERIMENT
• There are multiple perspectives on opportunity for change:
• individual
• cultural
• output/behavior/product
• systems/tools/process.
• These are all critical; none are more important than others, though
depending on context, relevancy, and efficacy can drive a choice!
• Let’s run 4 scenarios; fist of 5 voting
source: Spayd, Michael. Downloading the Integral Operating System.
11. PROCESS/TOOLS PERSPECTIVE
• Imagine an organization that has identified highly optimized systems,
processes, and tools.
• And overlays this onto its existing structure of ~70% disengaged
employees.
• To what degree is that change effort likely to achieve desired
outcomes (be effective)?
12. BEHAVIOR/OUTPUT/PRODUCT PERSPECTIVE
• Take that same organization and create explicit, detailed expectations
of behavior and output at an individual, team, etc levels. These are
posted around the space, communicated across multiple channels,
and given by managers to direct reports as instructions.
• Overlaid onto an organization of 70% disengagement.
• What degree of that change effort is likely to be effective?
13. CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
• Cultural change is incredibly difficult, which is one reason so many
organizations and consultants focus on objective contexts.
• Imagine you could change the shared belief of how things are done in
an organization to adopt the together we can accomplish more, better,
faster than alone.
• Overlaid onto an organization of 70% disengagement.
• What degree of that change effort is likely to be effective?
14. INDIVIDUAL PERSPECTIVE
• Imagine that an organization focuses on each person, supporting him
or her understanding the purpose he or she fulfills. That the work done
every day matters. That the work is moving them toward the person
they want to be and connected to the organization’s larger purpose.
• Overlaid onto an organization of 70% disengagement(?!)
• What degree of that change effort is likely to be effective?
15. EFFECTIVE CHANGE STARTS WITH PEOPLE
• Motivated, engaged people will quite simply bend the organizational
fabric toward effectiveness, if not outright reconstruct it.
• They will choose better tools, create better metrics, make better
decisions.
• Scientific management (the Taylor model) is a paradigm that cannot
hold this.
• It’s the rider, not the bike, though the other contexts QUICKLY become
highly relevant!
Individuals and Interactions over Process and Tools
16. UNLOCKING MOTIVATION
• Engagement is closely related to motivation
• Motivation is intrinsic and internal; carrots and sticks don’t work
• “Motivating people” is an oxymoron
• Our internal motivation activates in knowledge work when:
• Enough money to take money off the table
• Autonomy
• Mastery
• Purpose (meaningful work)
source: Pink, Daniel. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. Riverhead Books, New York
17. SOUNDS A LOT LIKE “FLOW”
Challenge
Mastery
“The best moments usually
occur when a person's body or
mind is stretched to its limits in
a voluntary effort to accomplish
something difficult and
worthwhile.” – Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi
source: Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (1990). Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Harper & Row
18. ENGAGEMENT IS A CONVERSATION
• Organizations and managers have a tremendous responsibility to
foster engagement; individuals do, too.
• People MUST be willing to choose to take responsibility; most will,
though sadly some will not.
• Engaged people will make sub-par tools and processes work more
effectively than disengaged people will make top-quality tools and
processes work.
Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the
environment and support they need to get the job done.
source: www.agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
20. WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW
• Think back to a leader you worked with whom you would never work with
again.
• What did they do?
• How did they make you feel?
• What were you able to accomplish?
• Now think back to a leader you worked for or followed whom you would jump
at the opportunity to join again.
• What did they do?
• How did they make you feel?
• What were you able to accomplish?
source: Boyatzis, Richard and McKee, Annie (2005). Resonant Leadership. Harvard Business School Publishing, Boston.
22. LEADERSHIP != MANAGEMENT
• If you are a manager take a deep breath ;)
• Much of management behavior is based on the assumption that human
beings need to be managed.
• There is growing evidence that we don’t need to be managed!
• As a responsible adult, where else in your life are you managed besides
work?
• Some organizations have already figured this out; it is a difficult path.
• Manage systems; lead people!
The best architectures, requirements, and designs
emerge from self-organizing teams.
sources: Laloux, Frederick (2014). Reinventing Organizations. Nelson Parker, Belgium. and http://www.agilemanifesto.org/principles.html
23. ON HEROICS
• Heroic leadership
• is a paradigm that puts the leader at the center
• is a natural step in the progression of learning effective leadership
• can be effective in specific situations
• quickly breaks down in complexity
• Heroic leaders believe their influence and authority stem from their expertise; the
right answers must come from them.
• Believe the burden of the organization’s effectiveness is on them.
• Is common when highly effective individual contributors are selected/promoted into
formal leadership positions with little support.
• ~70% of managers in the US rely predominantly on heroic stances!
source: Joiner, William and Josephs, Stephen (2007). Leadership Agility: Five Levels of Mastery For Anticipating and Leading Change. Jossey-
Boss, San Francisco.
24. LEADERSHIP: HOW WE SERVE OTHERS
A real leader is somebody who is able to inspire people. A real leader can
somehow get us to do certain things that deep down we think are good
and want to be able to do but usually can’t get ourselves to do on our
own. It’s a mysterious quality, hard to define, but we always know it when
we see it. A leader’s real “authority” is a power you voluntarily give him,
and you grant him this authority not with resentment or resignation but
happily; it feels right. Deep down, you almost always like how a real
leader makes you feel, the way you find yourself working harder and
pushing yourself and thinking in ways you couldn’t ever get to on your
own.
– David Foster Wallace
source: Wallace, David F. (2005). Consider the Lobster.
25. ASSERTIONS
• Human beings are emotional creatures.
• Emotional and social intelligences are far more indicative of
leadership effectiveness than intelligence or technical aptitude.
• Great leaders aren’t just “born that way,” they learn it.
Leadership is a choice. A choice to look after the person to the
left of you and look after the person to the right of you. If you
commit, every single day, to helping them succeed, you
become a leader.
- Simon Sinek
sources: Sinek, Simon. http://99u.com/videos/20272/simon-sinek-why-leaders-eat-last and Boyatzis, Richard and McKee, Annie (2005). Resonant
Leadership. Harvard Business School Publishing, Boston.
26. LEADERS
• Draw out the best of us.
• Inspire us to do bigger things than we thought we could.
• Are courageous enough to not only seek to see the world as it is,
though to seek the impacts they have on it.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good
when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him.
Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you. But of a good leader,
who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled,
they will all say: ‘we did this ourselves.’
– Lao Tzu
Source: Tzu, Lao (1990). Tao Te Ching. (J.C. Wu, Trans.) Boston: Shambhala
27. SPECIFICALLY, LEADERSHIP
• Is situational
• Situational Awareness (SA) is our ability to accurately perceive
events in the world in real-time and maintain mental models that
are as close to that reality as possible.
• Is resonant
• Human beings are only partially rational and largely emotional.
• Effective leaders understand how to assess a context and choose an
appropriate approach; more so they are able to evaluate in real time
the effectiveness of that approach and can improvise accordingly.
28. RESONANT LEADERSHIP
• Aware of the emotional context and foster positive emotions!
• 6 leadership stances; 4 resonant, 2 dissonant
• Resonant
• Visionary
• Coaching
• Affiliative
• Democratic
• Dissonant
• Commanding
• Pace-Setting
Source: Goleman, Daniel, Boyatzis, Richard, McKee, Anniw (2001). Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver or Great Performance. Harvard
Business School Press
29. A BIGGER “YES”
• Effective, sustainable change occurs when we reach for something we
want, and we are able to attain it.
• So often our default reaction to change is to instead be drawn to
problems and blockers, or a sense of obligation; should/ought.
• Leaders articulate a bigger, desirable identity that can be grown into;
both for ourselves (placebo) and others (pygmalion).
• Leaders formulate powerful questions that can only be answered from
this new self.
What is your relationship to this place, to the edge a bigger
yes calls you to, where the ground turns to ocean?
source: Whyte, David (2015). Private Lecture.
30. If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up men to
gather wood, divide the work, and give orders.
Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and
endless sea.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
32. FIRST, WHAT DO WE MEAN?
• Quality in software is twofold
• Perceived: the right thing
• Conceptual: built right
• We need to know what customers value to benchmark quality!
33. A NOTE ON OBJECTIVE PERSPECTIVES
• While focus on people will light a fire, without corresponding tools, that
fire will go out.
• There is likely a positive feedback loop between enabling systems,
tools, and processes, and engagement.
• There is likely a damping effect on problematic systems, tools, and
processes, and engagement.
34. A QUICK SURVEY
• What do we believe the relationship is between engagement,
leadership, and quality?
• How likely are highly engaged people to create high quality, high
value outcomes? To maximize tools and processes?
• How likely are effective leaders to support discovery and
implementation of those outcomes?
• How likely is an organization with 30% engagement and heroic
leadership to support those outcomes?
• NUMMI: New United Motor Manufacturing Incorporated
Source: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/403/nummi
36. THE TL;DR
• Engagement is fostered by doing meaningful work in a supportive
context.
• Effective leaders learn how to harness emotional intelligence to
increase engagement and ignite intrinsic motivation.
• Effective tools and processes need to be available.
• These set the stage for amazing value inside and outside the
organization.
37. WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT ALL?
• Be curious, be inquisitive; ignite a sense of wonder; tourist for a day.
• Determine and clarify what you want.
• Accurately assess where you currently are.
• Identify strengths and gaps.
• Experiment with behaviors to close the gaps.
• Foster a network of supportive relationships that will enable what you
are working toward.
38. POSSIBLE FIRST STEPS
• Renew
• Formulate a personal vision and take steps to live it
• Find a coach or a partner-in-change
• Choose to take responsibility for your inner state; foster SA
• Sleep enough
• Eat relatively well
• Exercise, best outside!
• Learn *something*
• Actively seek states of flow
• Create
39. MOST IMPORTANTLY: START
The courageous conversation is the one you don’t want
to have…start close in. Don’t take the second step, or
the third. Start with the first thing, close in; the step you
don’t want to take.
– David Whyte