I attended this session at the San Diego Scrum Gathering because of my interest in leadership. If you have a team, a co-equal group of people with equal say, what can happen? How do leaders function in general. Do we need leaders or can we get things done behaving like a murmur of starlings?
These are super raw notes:
Experience drives beliefs drives behaviors drives results. Leaders do first two; managers second.
Supervisors command laborers.
Coordinators delegate to agents.
Steward empowers professionals.
Catalyst inspires co-leaders.
Steward and Catalyst Actions: How to do it?
- Create space ( for team to work, etc.)
- Protect Boundaries ( let product owners make choices, self-organize)
- Connect (elbow coaching — create connections)
- Invite ( instead of tell people to do something)
- Initiate ( when invitations don’t work) ( even sometimes set up meeting, give problem, leave)
- Co-participate ( you can help your manager to transform)
Every one of us has power. We need to stop our organizations from blocking that.
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