How to get your team energized for creativity, collaboration and customer results. The two driving forces for building a team that delivers are culture and leadership. In this presentation, we share:
- a framework for understanding and building a digital culture
- our proprietary Team Maximizer Framework that outlines the 6 steps to make your team great
2. “This whole game of business
revolves around one thing:
You build the best team,
you win.”
Jack Welch, former chairman of GE
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3. What we want is a team that cares
enough to understand what the
business needs and delivers it
so that we look good and don’t have to
deal with escalations and unhappy
bosses or unhappy clients.
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4. WHAT WE OFTEN GET
Team members that don’t care
Employees that don’t understand the business
Quality that is sub-par
Missed deliverables
Work that doesn’t meet the business needs
Tardiness, “presenteeism” and absenteeism
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Around 50% of all jobs will
be replaced by robots in
the next 20 years (Oxford
study).
Robots Could Steal 40%
of U.S. Jobs by 2030
(PWC)
8. CLOSE THE GAP BY BUILDING GREAT
LEADERS
18% of those currently in management roles
demonstrate a high level of talent for managing
others (Gallup)
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9. WHO IS JOANNE ECKTON ANYWAY?
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She’s a transformation technology leader that:
Speaks about topics related to the people side of tech
Wrote the book on making your job great
Runs an organization that mentors over 300+ women
in tech
Leads multi-million dollar programs with teams all
around the world
Consults with tech companies about culture and team
performance
10. SUCCESS SCENARIOS
MERGER WITH
FORTUNE 100
COMPANIES
MAJOR RE-
ORG
BIZ+IT
ALIGNMENT
FOR MAJOR
CLIENT
NEW MARKET
PRODUCT
PILOT
SCALE NEW
ORGANIZATION
PLATFORM
CONSOLIDATIO
N
FIRST MULTI-
MILLION$
AGILE
PROJECT
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13. In fact in the end, management doesn't
change culture. Management invites the
workforce itself to change the culture
~Lou Gerstner, 2002
“I came to see, in my time at IBM, that
culture isn’t just one aspect of the game;
it is the game.”
~Lou Gerstner
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FACETS OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE
How we define ourselves and our core valuesA: Who we Are
C: Our Capabilities
B: What we Believe
D: What we Do
E: Our Environment
Spoken or unspoken beliefs that filter our view
of the workplace
Skills and abilities present in the organization
Accepted norms of behavior, dress code, how
we get work done
External forces, such as recognition & reward
systems, regulations, etc.
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15. • Embrace uncertainty & experimentation
• Manage the present while creating the future (urgent vs
important)
• Focus on human experience over structure & policy
• Customized collaboration
• Trust over formality
• Transparency & shared learning
THE DIGITAL CULTURE
Principles
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20. 5 DEADLY MISTAKES
DON’T TELL THEM
WHY THIS
MATTERS
TELL THEM
WHAT TO DO
FOCUS ONLY ON
THE WORK
DON’T SHARE
INFORMATION
BE UNAPPROACHABLE
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21. BUILDING BLOCKS FOR GREAT TEAMS
COMMON VISION
SHARED
LEADERSHIP
RELATIONSHIPSCOMMUNICATION
TRUST
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22. G
GET CLEAR ON THE GOAL
O
ONE AT A TIME
R
RECOGNIZE YOUR LEADERSHIP
STYLE
W
T
EASY CUSTOMIZE
Lid est laborum dolo rumes fugats untras. Etharums ser quidem rerum facilis
dolores
COMMON VISION
SHARED
LEADERSHIP
RELATIONSHIPS
COMMUNICATION
TRUST
H
EASY CUSTOMIZE
Lid est laborum dolo rumes fugats untras. Etharums ser quidem rerum facilis
dolores
WE ALL WORK TOGETHER
TARGET YOUR RESOURCES
HOW WE GET THINGS DONE
TEAM MAXIMIZER FRAMEWORK™
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23. What is our goal? What is the
change we are trying to make?
Why is this important?
What does success look like?
How will we measure progress?
How will know when we are done?
G
GET CLEAR ON THE GOAL
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24. When you don’t know where
you’re going,
any outcome will do.
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25. Decision Making Style
Communication Style
Transparency
Influence
Culture
People or Task Orientation
R
RECOGNIZE YOUR LEADERSHIP
STYLE
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26. In the know
Think they know
Make up what they
don’t know
Don’t have any idea
TYPICAL COMMUNICATION MODEL
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27. HOW WE THINK COMMUNICATION FLOWS
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29. O
ONE AT A TIME
Personal, 1-on-1 conversations
Individual strengths
Goals and preferences
Personality Type
Expectations
Blocking & Tackling
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31. W
WE ALL WORK TOGETHER
Collaboration
CommunitySynergy
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32. Only 12% use their strengths regularly
at work. Marcus Buckingham
LEVERAGE SKILLS, NOT JOB DESCRIPTIONS
What you focus on
Time Using Strengths at
Work
Everything Else Strengths
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33. BUILD A COMMUNITY
I belong.
I feel safe.
We have something in common.
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35. You Team
Framework for
decision
making
Decide
priorities
Manage noise
& distractions
Define solutions
Remove
obstacles
Determine how
work will be
done
FOCUS ON THE RIGHT THINGS
T
EASY CUSTOMIZE
Lid est laborum dolo rumes fugats untras. Etharums ser quidem rerum facilis
doloresTARGET YOUR RESOURCES
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36. A top-down, hierarchical
authority structure is an obstacle
to collaboration, to innovation,
to employee engagement, to
creativity.
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EASY CUSTOMIZE
Lid est laborum dolo rumes fugats untras. Etharums ser quidem rerum facilis
doloresHOW WE GET THINGS DONE
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38. Allow employees to work
independently, focus on
their strengths, and align
their personal goals with
your organizational
goals.
Daniel Pink, Drive
BE THE COMPANY WHERE PEOPLE
WANT TO WORK
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what they want – professionals, care about job, do it well, look for ways to improve
what reality is
That’s’ not reality, is it?
Stand up exercise
All stand
20% actively disengaged
50% disengaged
30% engaged
¼ of engaged – high potential
½ of hipo – leave
Who’s left?
If we were able to realize that vision I’d just asked you about, we’d have a few more people standing, wouldn’t we?
what they want – professionals, care about job, do it well, look for ways to improve
what reality is
That’s’ not reality, is it?
Stand up exercise
All stand
20% actively disengaged
50% disengaged
30% engaged
¼ of engaged – high potential
½ of hipo – leave
Who’s left?
If we were able to realize that vision I’d just asked you about, we’d have a few more people standing, wouldn’t we?
what they want – professionals, care about job, do it well, look for ways to improve
what reality is
That’s’ not reality, is it?
Stand up exercise
All stand
20% actively disengaged
50% disengaged
30% engaged
¼ of engaged – high potential
½ of hipo – leave
Who’s left?
If we were able to realize that vision I’d just asked you about, we’d have a few more people standing, wouldn’t we?
Leadership problem
reality is every company pockets of both…has the best leader and the worst leader
our job today is to talk about how to narrow that gap
Client Story: team afraid to attempt to fix build process, fear of failure
When I do culture assessment at companies both large and small, what I typically find is:
Alignment at the leadership level
Very little alignment at mid-tier – most too busy to pay attention
No one has given this any thought at IC level; do what they are told
Lots of examples of behaviors that are in opposition to desired culture
Most don’t understand implications of culture vs personality types
Not enough time to go into detail, pass along your card and I will share with you how you can do an assessment in your own org
Story about defining goal – maybe boat story?
Bill – if you don’t know where you are going, any outcome will do
Team that doesn’t know desired outcome are just busy
Autonomy, mastery, purpose
Story about defining goal – maybe boat story?
Bill – if you don’t know where you are going, any outcome will do
Team that doesn’t know desired outcome are just busy
Autonomy, mastery, purpose
How do we know?
The higher the level, the more sanitized the messages you receive
Few people make decisions, not communicated outward
Those “in the know’ separate from everyone else
My strengths – vs things I hate to do
Provide the tools and resources to allow collaboration across geographies, functions and time zones
Build forums integrating functions at all levels
Encourage growth and innovation through open discussion and experimentation
Energy – manage distractions, work in right time, right env, flexibility to decide; focus on important things
Deb – monthly report eliminated
We need a solution by 3pm kind of innovation & creativity
Think innovation – think start up
More flexibility & control over their days,
New way of thinking about work
ROWE
Status isn’t based on the position you hold, its earned through knowledge and a willingness to share,
You don’t need to know that to sure, I’ll show you
Start here
We all structure our orgs based on old thinking
How is this serving you?
Cost cutting & efficiency
concept of the few leading the many – might have been appropriate in arena of well defined, repeatable tasks where the goal is to drive consistency & efficiency and cut out costs
People leave companies because they are just not good places to work
You are training each other’s future employees
Looking for opty to grow, to do new things, to be recognized
All of those things can happen inside your org if we as leaders learn to innovate ourselves