Breath, Brain & Beyond_A Holistic Approach to Peak Performance.pdf
ScanAgile 23 - Interpersonal Alchemy
1. Mark Cruth
Modern Work Coach, Atlassian
Interpersonal alchemy
The magic behind high performing teams
2. Let’s
experiment 2. Get to know each other by
answering the following:
What's something you're interested in that most
people haven’t heard of?
1. Find a partner
If you could live at any time in history, when would it be?
How long would you survive a Zombie Apocalypse?
4
minutes
11. There are lots of questions…
Teams
Is it putting together all
your best people?
Budget
Is it giving them
unlimited budget?
Challenges
Is it giving them a
challenging project?
12. Why do some
teams perform better than
others?
MARK CRUTH (RIGHT NOW)
27. Decentralized decision making
fuels empowerment
Purpose creates autonomy
High trust with psychological
safety accelerates cohesion
Embracing uncertainty
sustains growth
Team
alchemical
elements
28. Decentralized decision making
fuels empowerment
Purpose creates autonomy
High trust with psychological
safety accelerates cohesion
Embracing uncertainty
sustains growth
Team
alchemical
elements
29. Embracing Uncertainty
sustains Growth
Decentralized decision making
fuels empowerment
Purpose creates autonomy
High trust with psychological
safety accelerates cohesion
Embracing uncertainty
sustains growth
Team
alchemical
elements
30. Decentralized decision making
fuels empowerment
Purpose creates autonomy
High trust with psychological
safety accelerates cohesion
Embracing uncertainty
sustains growth
Team
alchemical
elements
32. We believe embedding practices into a
team that clarify purpose, decentralizes
decision making, builds psychological
safety and trust, and normalizes
uncertainty will result in a teams full
potential being unleashed.
33. We believe embedding practices into a
team that clarify purpose, decentralizes
decision making, builds psychological
safety and trust, and normalizes
uncertainty will result in a teams full
potential being unleashed.
36. CREATE A VISION EXERCISE
Ingredients
• Identify your teams values, purpose,
mission, strategy, and goals
• Teams assume they know it (do they?)
• Vision statements can be simple
Results
• Unites the team together through
a shared understanding
Learn more at: https://bit.ly/3epfVbl
37. Ingredients
• Decisions take too long to make
• Decentralizes decision making
• Makes the “who” in decision making
explicit and how other can contribute
Results
• Increases psychological ownership
within the team
DELEGATION POKER
Learn more at: https://bit.ly/3fOaLWW
38. Ingredients
• Takes an honest look at how you team
• Similar to a retrospective, but focuses
on the current state of the team
• Should be conducted on a regular basis
Results
• Identifies team strengths and
areas for growth
HEALTH MONITOR
Learn more at: https://bit.ly/3BsvcQj
39. Ingredients
• Team feels they are buried in meetings
• Take inventory of the calendar
• Reviewing team “rituals” and identify
which to keep, change, remove
Results
• Eliminate waste and increase value of
time in meetings
RITUAL RESET
Learn more at: https://bit.ly/3CUEGG1
40. Ingredients
• The only thing needed is a room/zoom
and a willingness to experiment!
• Starts with a prompt
• Built on the rule of “yes, and…”
Results
• Enhances team creativity, empathy
and ability to adapt
TEAM IMPROV
Learn more at: https://bit.ly/3ViehJr
41. 1. Find a partner
Let’s
experiment
4. Follower - your goal is to mirror
their movement back to them
(60 seconds)
2. Pick someone to be the lead
3. When I say “Go” leads you will
move you hands / body around