Achieving goals as a team is not easy, especially in an ever-changing business context during project execution. Engaged employees drive performance to a higher level,
but what should leadership do to drive this engagement in a structured way? In this session you learn how to emphasize the right topics, skills and leadership capabilities.
The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team (by Frederik Wouters)
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THE NEED FOR ASPIRING
AMBITIONS TO GUIDE YOUR TEAM
WHEN TARGETS ARE MOVING
Frederik Wouters
Director Business Development
frederik.wouters@verhaert.com
TRACK 4: HUMAN TOUCH, YOUR TEAM & THE CUSTOMER
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I AM PASSIONATE ABOUT TECHNOLOGY
IN GENERAL AND SPECIFICALLY ACHIEVING
TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES WITHIN
OUR PROJECTS AT VERHAERT
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New problem
or challenge
Other team members
Uncertainty & fear
Error/bad
performance
New role/other
contribution
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Fear of
• Criticism
• Rejection
• Failure
• Disapproval
• …
Fear to
• Admitting errors
• Admitting weakness
• Admit disagreement
• Talk to people in authority
• Speak up in a meeting
• Take a stand
• …
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Repeat what we are good at:
• Pleasure
• Confidence
• Certainty
• …
So how to :
- Do new stuff
- Take risk or
- Change behaviour
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TEAM OR GROUP?
1. Availability
2. Technical Skills
Soft skills ?
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HOW IS THE CROWD SEEING IT ?
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Ensuring that teams with new members have a fast start
and are capable to achieve the ambitious goals :
1. What are the first topics at project starts the team members need to perform? ……………………………….
2. Write down the first word when thinking about ‘ambitious goal setting’? ……………………………….
3. Write down the first word when you think about aptitude & attitudes in a team? ……………………………….
4. What culture does a team need? ……………………………….
QUIZ
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Who experienced team interactions
with difficult discussions and ‘alignment’
was sometimes not possible ?
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how ?
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Traditional goal setting Agile goal setting
Plan based Vision based
AGILITY INNOVATION
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A CATALYST FOR TEAM SPIRIT
creating meaning
and ambition.
BHAG - Jim Collins
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“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too
high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
Michelangelo
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Plan based versus vision based
Also creativity will motivate people/teams to reach higher.
When discovering is a participative journey
WHY
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CHANGE MASTERS ?
‘Change masters’ manage
to learn with changes during
the project. They aim high
and manage not by fixed goals.
RICE
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TEAM OR GROUP?
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PEOPLE &
ROLES
COMMON GOALS VALUES RULES &
ACTIVITIES
NEEDS &
EXPECTATIONS
PERSONAL
GOALS
WEAKNESSES & RISKSSTRENGTHS & ASSETS
PURPOSE
COHESION & DIVERSITY
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GOAL: we all feel like we can say anything to each other
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WHAT CAN LEADERSHIP DO? ASPIRE & INSPIRE
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WHAT CAN LEADERSHIP DO - GOAL SETTING
Creating the Now
Low team/
High leader
Contribution split
Self monitoring
& assessment
Growing personal
skills
Participative
Management
Making success
appealing / wanted
/ reachable
Deliberate learning
& strategies
Creating the Future
High team
/Low leader
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WHAT CAN LEADERSHIP DO - TEAM INTERACTIONS & TRUST
How to ensure an open & respectful dialogue
to constructively create & exchange ideas.
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WHAT CAN LEADERSHIP DO - TEAM INTERACTIONS & TRUST
Team spirit
Creative interaction models
Addressing unspoken issues
Constructive debate environment
Feedback without resentment
Sharing fail modes
Create equality
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WHAT IS THE RIGHT TEAM CULTURE?
Safe environment
Allow failure
Pro-actively look for failures
Share failures
Accept the ‘right’ failure
Adaptability & resilience
Learning process for
risk taking
Collaborate
Peer pressure
Set the pace
Go the extra mile
Fail fast
Involve the team
Personal growth
Explorative
Learn to help themselves
Pro-actively look for
learnings
Share learnings
‘Challenge’ each other
Consciously learning
Innovation in Learning
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THE SWEET SPOT
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Innovation Day is an initiative of Masters in Innovation,
the umbrella brand of the Verhaert Group which aims
to connect, train and accelerate professional innovators.
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