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Creating Safety for Leadership w/ Tim Wise
Creating Safety for Leadership w/ Tim Wise
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Length:
53 minutes
Released:
Dec 12, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Safety is a popular topic in the Agile space that comes up when we have conversations about what it takes to create an environment where Agile can take root and thrive.
When we talk about transforming organizations, we talk about things like creating a safe environment where people feel that they have the agency and support to run experiments in order to get better at working together and delivering value for the customer. This conversation often centers around teams and the individual team members, but rarely do we take the time to consider what safety looks like for leadership. Aren’t they at risk as well?
There may be leaders in your organization who are supporting or sponsoring the transformation effort, but what if it doesn’t take? What impact will it have on them? When it comes to organizational change, we know leadership has to adjust their approach as well, but this conversation often focuses on how the things they learned to do under a traditional model will get in the way of a successful Agile Transformation. We tell them what not to do: we tell them to leave the teams alone to figure out how to self-organize, we tell them to be supportive and let go of many of the practices that helped them reach their leadership position. It may come across as though we are simply taking things away from them, and this language of loss is unlikely to leave them feeling like they are operating from a place where they have the agency they need and the support they need to begin running experiments that will help them learn to grow into the Agile leaders we want and need them to be.
In this episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile Senior Consultant, Tim Wise, and Dave Prior explore:
What it means to create safety for leadership
What Agile Transformation asks of leaders and the risks they face
How leaders can begin moving toward an approach that demonstrates adopting an Agile mindset
What types of behavior are needed to foster a safe environment for the teams and team members to employ Agile practice to deliver value for their customers
Links From This Podcast
Turn the Ship Around - David Marquet
Team of Teams - General Stanley McChrystal
7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey
Speed of Trust - Stephen M.R. Covey
Extreme Ownership - Jocko Willink
The Responsibility Process - Christopher Avery
Jordan Peterson
12 Rules for Life
Podcast
YouTube
Agile Day Atlanta
Contacting Tim
Email: tim@leadingagile.com
LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/tim-wise/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timwise/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/timswise
Contacting Dave
Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com
LeadingAgile: http://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/mrsungo
Personal blog: http://drunkenpm.net
We Need Reviews
If you like this podcast, we'd be very grateful for reviews or feedback in iTunes. It will help us create more visibility for this podcast so that we can reach more people. Click here to leave us a review or post feedback.
Feedback/Questions
If you have comments on the podcast or have questions for the LeadingAgile coaches that you’d like to have addressed in a future episode of LeadingAgile’s SoundNotes, you can reach Dave at dave.prior@leadingagile.com
LeadingAgile CSM and CSPO Classes
For information on LeadingAgile’s upcoming public CSM and CSPO classes, please go to: http://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/
Use the discount code: LA_Podcast to receive a 15% discount on the class.
When we talk about transforming organizations, we talk about things like creating a safe environment where people feel that they have the agency and support to run experiments in order to get better at working together and delivering value for the customer. This conversation often centers around teams and the individual team members, but rarely do we take the time to consider what safety looks like for leadership. Aren’t they at risk as well?
There may be leaders in your organization who are supporting or sponsoring the transformation effort, but what if it doesn’t take? What impact will it have on them? When it comes to organizational change, we know leadership has to adjust their approach as well, but this conversation often focuses on how the things they learned to do under a traditional model will get in the way of a successful Agile Transformation. We tell them what not to do: we tell them to leave the teams alone to figure out how to self-organize, we tell them to be supportive and let go of many of the practices that helped them reach their leadership position. It may come across as though we are simply taking things away from them, and this language of loss is unlikely to leave them feeling like they are operating from a place where they have the agency they need and the support they need to begin running experiments that will help them learn to grow into the Agile leaders we want and need them to be.
In this episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile Senior Consultant, Tim Wise, and Dave Prior explore:
What it means to create safety for leadership
What Agile Transformation asks of leaders and the risks they face
How leaders can begin moving toward an approach that demonstrates adopting an Agile mindset
What types of behavior are needed to foster a safe environment for the teams and team members to employ Agile practice to deliver value for their customers
Links From This Podcast
Turn the Ship Around - David Marquet
Team of Teams - General Stanley McChrystal
7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey
Speed of Trust - Stephen M.R. Covey
Extreme Ownership - Jocko Willink
The Responsibility Process - Christopher Avery
Jordan Peterson
12 Rules for Life
Podcast
YouTube
Agile Day Atlanta
Contacting Tim
Email: tim@leadingagile.com
LeadingAgile: https://www.leadingagile.com/guides/tim-wise/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timwise/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/timswise
Contacting Dave
Email: dave.prior@leadingagile.com
LeadingAgile: http://www.leadingagile.com/guides/dave-prior/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrsungo/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/mrsungo
Personal blog: http://drunkenpm.net
We Need Reviews
If you like this podcast, we'd be very grateful for reviews or feedback in iTunes. It will help us create more visibility for this podcast so that we can reach more people. Click here to leave us a review or post feedback.
Feedback/Questions
If you have comments on the podcast or have questions for the LeadingAgile coaches that you’d like to have addressed in a future episode of LeadingAgile’s SoundNotes, you can reach Dave at dave.prior@leadingagile.com
LeadingAgile CSM and CSPO Classes
For information on LeadingAgile’s upcoming public CSM and CSPO classes, please go to: http://www.leadingagile.com/our-gear/training/
Use the discount code: LA_Podcast to receive a 15% discount on the class.
Released:
Dec 12, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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