Tag: Empowerment
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Unlock The Potential Of High Performing Teams with the Three Es
The key to unlocking your team’s full potential? Balancing the 3 Es – Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Engagement. While many organizations focus solely on efficiency, measuring and optimizing for results, this approach can lead to limited long-term value.By inspecting and balancing the 3 Es, leaders can enable cross-functional teams to achieve their full potential indefinitely.Don’t limit…
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Take a small step toward being a more agile minded leader.
One of the most important contributions that leaders can make in any transformation is to model the types of behaviors that we want teams and team members to adopt! Modeling our target behaviors sends a very clear message that we are invested in not only changing the way we approach work, but also the culture…
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Manager hacks that build trust and drive empowerment
I‘ve heard a lot of talk about empowerment lately, so I thought I might offer a perspective (and maybe some advice) on the topic. Let’s start with a definition we can all rally around, shall we? “Empowered employees believe they have the tools, resources, autonomy and support they need to act independently and be…
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4 telltale signs your team feels unsafe – and what to do about it
Empowerment begins with your team feeling psychologically safe. This week’s blog post is specially crafted for leaders, managers, product managers and product owners. Don’t let that slow you down if you have a different fancy job title, of course, but today I’m speaking directly to the leaders of teams! One of my favorite definitions of…
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I feel you brother – Empathy doesn’t need to be a mystery.
Empathy, I think, is one of those things that is easy to define and hard to employ. You can pretty easily find a consensus on what the word means – I’ll even save you the trouble and Google it… It’s the ability to make a connection to a feeling someone else is having about a…
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Leader’s Challenge – Change your language- Stop Telling. Start Asking.
Empowered teams self organize around a shared objective, and optimize themselves around achieving it. That all starts with team members who feel empowered, and frankly… that starts with you! “I want you actively to train your people on how to think for themselves” – Eiji Toyoda “Think more like a gardener, less like a general.”…
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Coach’s challenge! – Schedule a “Mistakes Meeting”
Schedule your very own Mistakes Meeting! Creating a culture within (and across) a team that encourages people to live and breath the agile values and principles requires trust, and that takes being transparent, having a growth mindset and looking to continuously improve! One way to encourage an agile team culture is to start treating mistakes…
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Whatcha been doing lately?
Oh what a loaded question, right? So much going on in the last month or so. So many ways to answer that question! We can think of a leader’s time and energy being split into 4 quadrants: While leaders have to spend time and energy in all four of these quadrants, “agile leaders” (leaders who…
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“Agiling in place” – Tales from agile managers
One of my favorite responsibilities is facilitating the Agile Leader Onboarding sessions. In these events – I get to talk to managers and leaders about the agile values and principles, how agile frameworks add value, and about how managing and leading people is very different in an agile environment. Inevitably we get into great conversations…