Creating Great Teams - How Self-Selection Lets People Excel
Here’s a radical idea: Trust people to know best and let them decide which team they should work in. Let them Self-Select! Self-selection is the simplest, fastest and most efficient way to form stable teams, based on the belief that people are at their happiest and most productive if they can choose what they work on and who they work with. In October 2013, Trade Me, New Zealand’s largest eCommerce provider ran the biggest Self-Selection event in the world since WWII, using a process which has since been repeated many times in multiple locations across the world. In this presentation I will share my learnings and experiences from more than four years of running Self-Selection processes in large organisations. I will show you a repeatable process for how to establish efficient teams in growing organisations and will answer questions such as “Why would I do that”? and “How can I convince management?”.
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- 1. Sandy Mamoli sandy@nomad8.com @smamol Creating Great Teams How Self-Selection Lets People Excel
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- 9. The art of team design
- 10. 60%more productive Rally research: h6p://bit.ly/1ITbFb2 Stable teams are
- 12. 60% design 30% launch 10% development Research J. Richard Hackman: h6p://bit.ly/1JSM2sl Image: h6p://www.drinksandlibaDons.com
- 18. Fear!
- 20. • the principle works • have 10 minute rounds • visualise Trial @smamol
- 21. Going all in …
- 23. A leap of faith for people
- 25. Be prepared!
- 26. balcony @smamol
- 28. Image: Henrik Kniberg Define Squads
- 30. • deliver end-to-end • 3-7 people • co-located Constraints @smamol
- 33. The big day
- 42. When to stop?
- 44. The last round
- 46. What did we learn?
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- 48. It’s all about relationships! @smamol
- 49. Aren’t people going to start arguing and bitching? Is some poor person not going to be picked? How do you persuade management? How do you deal with people’s fears? Can you please add additional rules and constraints? @smamol
- 50. Aren’t people going to start arguing and bitching? @smamol
- 51. Is some poor person not going to be picked? @smamol
- 52. How do you persuade management? @smamol
- 53. How do you deal with people’s fears? @smamol
- 54. Can you please add these additional rules and constraints? @smamol
- 55. Won’t there be really unpopular areas? @smamol
- 56. Liar, liar …
- 57. 4 years later
- 61. “I joined Trade Me because I heard that I could pick my own team.” @smamol
- 62. months Trade Me “squadify” every … 6 @smamol
- 65. Full Buy-in
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