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Secrets of Agile Teamwork: Beyond Technical Skills
Who Should Attend/Prerequisites
The course is suitable for team leaders, team coaches, XP coaches, ScrumMasters and others leading and working in teams, with a desire to be best team member or team leader possible.
Class Size Limit: 14 (Minimum 0)
Course Overview
Beyond technical skills, Agile success depends on productive self-organizing teams. How do you develop, grow, and maintain a functioning self-organizing team? It's not magic, but it doesn't just happen either. Effective self-organizing teams rely on personal and interpersonal effectiveness. In this hands-on workshop, we'll discover the secrets to developing the skills you need to succeed and lead on a self-organizing team.
Team members will learn to:
- Improve the quality of interactions with customers and others outside the team
- Increase the speed and effectiveness of feedback
- Contribute to an environment for team success
Agenda
- Communication
- External processes of communication
- Internal processes of communication
- Untangling miscommunications
- Communication practice
- Navigating Conflict
- Sources of conflict
- Recognizing and intervening on conflicts
- Conflict case studies activities
- Navigating conflict practice
- Feedback
- The goal of peer-to-peer feedback
- Feedback guidelines
- Feedback giver and receiver responsibilities
- Feedback practice
- Shared Leadership
- Shared leadership behaviors
- Recognizing and encouraging leadership behaviors activities
- Shared leadership practice
- Team Formation
- Stages of team formation
- Diagnosing team development
- Supporting effective team development
- Team formation practice
- Personal and Organizational Change
- How change effects individuals and groups
- Strategies to support people through change
- Transitioning workshop concepts back to the workplace
Cost:
$1500 per attendee.