The document presents leadership workshop materials focused on developing leadership skills tailored for startup teams operating under uncertainty and minimal resources. It includes various exercises, leadership styles, and frameworks such as the Lean Team Canvas to guide team leaders in setting visions, defining roles, and improving communication. Resources for further reading and contact information for the facilitator, Ben Sufiani, are also provided.

1. LEANTEAM
LEADERSHIP
Workshop Material

2. ABOUT
•Ben Sufiani
•Air Force
•Psychology
•Campus for Company
•6fold
•Lean Camp
•Startup Weekend
•NEXT
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3. GOALS FORTODAY
•Digging deeper into leadership
•Setting a vision for your team
•Knowing your team better
•Realizing your own style
•Avoiding common mistakes
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4. FOR WHO ISTHIS?
•StartupTeam Leader and Member
•IntrapreneurialTeams
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5. LEANTEAM LEADERSHIP ?
•StartupTeams ≠ Big BusinessTeams
•Conditions of extreme uncertainty
•Minimal resources
•Lack of experience
•Startups need a special team management
methodology
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6. LEANTEAM CANVAS
Visuals by
Johanna
Rosenbusch
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Lean Team Canvas is adapted from The Business Model Canvas (BusinessModelGeneration.com)
and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Un-ported License.

7. LEANTEAM CANVAS
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Lean Team Canvas is adapted from The Business Model Canvas (BusinessModelGeneration.com)
and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Un-ported License.

8. LEADERSHIP
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9. LEADERSHIP
•How do I lead the team?
•It takes more then being an awesome technician
•Be a visionary + manager + technician is key
•Communicate the vision and the way (pivot anyone?)
•What are all the mistakes your old boss made ?
•What is your unique, authentic leadership style?
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10. LEADERSHIP
•How is the team organized to perform?
•Assign roles and responsibilities according to skill
•Clearly define the key workflows
•Establish actionable performance metrics
•Show the direction, but let the team improve the process
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11. LEARNING LEADERSHIP
„Leadership, like swimming,
cannot be learned by reading about it.“
Henry Mintzberg
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12. EXERCISE 1: DOS & DON‘TS
1. Make a list of the 10 things done to
you by bosses (,teachers or parents)
that you hated.
2. Make a list of 10 things done to you
that you really liked.
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13. LEADERSHIP STYLES
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14. IDENTIFYING LEADERSHIP STYLES
• Authoritarian
• centralized decision
making
• no suggestions
permitted
• Participative
• democratic decision
making
• promoting interests of
the group
• Laissez-fair
• leaving the group to
fend for itself
• members create own
policies and rules
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http://psychology.about.com/library/quiz/bl-leadershipquiz.htm

15. EXERCISE 2.1: CHOOSING A STYLE
• Situation 1: Your sit with you team in your weekly meeting.
• Situation 2: Bullets are flying, Deadlines are due, Hell is loose!
• Situation 3: YourTeam need to brainstorm new ideas for a campaign.
• Situation 4: It‘s an average day ..
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16. IDENTIFYING LEADERSHIP STYLES
• Task-oriented
• Focus on the task
• Step-by-step solutions
• Goals are the priority
• Deadlines need to be met
• Relationship-oriented
• Focus on group relationship
• well-being and satisfaction of team
• emphasize on communication
• shows trust and appreciation
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17. EXERCISE 2.2: CHOOSING A STYLE
• Situation 1: Your sit with you team in your weekly meeting.
• Situation 2: Bullets are flying, Deadlines are due, Hell is loose!
• Situation 3: YourTeam need to brainstorm new ideas for a campaign.
• Situation 4: It‘s an average day ..
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18. LEADING WITHVISION
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19. START WITH WHY
•Simon Sinek -The Golden Circle
•What? rational - factual - logical
•How? context - decision-making
•Why? purpose - emotion - instinct
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20. EXERCISE 3:YOURVISION
1. What do you do with your team?
2. How do you do it?
3. Why do you do it?
4. If you had a gun to you head,
forced to tweet you vision publicly,
how would you use the 140 characters?
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21. YOUR LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES
• What is your major leadership
challenge?
• What a situation you would like
to talk about with likeminded
people?
• Get feedback via email
challenge@leanteam.org
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22. WORKSHOPS &TALKS
•Workshop I
22.04.2013
17-21 o‘clock
•Workshop II
13.05.2013
17-21 o‘clock
•Talk II
around 06.2013
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23. RESOURCES
•LeanTeam Mangement
leanteam.org
•Delivering Happiness -Tony Hsieh
http://www.amazon.de/dp/145550890X
•Tribal Leadership - David Logan
http://about.zappos.com/tribal
http://www.amazon.de/dp/0061251321
•The E-Myth Revisited - Michael Gerber
http://www.amazon.de/dp/0887307280
•Good to Great - Jim Collins
http://www.amazon.de/dp/0066620996
•Lewin‘s Leadership Styles Quiz
http://psychology.about.com/library/quiz/bl-
leadershipquiz.htm
•Start with Why - Simon Sinek
http://www.ted.com/talks/
simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_ac
tion.html
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24. CONTACT
• Ben Sufiani
• https://www.facebook.com/ben.sufiani
• https://twitter.com/bensufiani
• http://bensufiani.de
• +49-176-30543705
• ben@sufiani.de
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25. CREATIVE COMMONS
LeanTeam Canvas is adapted fromThe Business Model Canvas
(BusinessModelGeneration.com) and is licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Un-ported License.
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