Changing organizational mindset

Changing Organizational Mindset

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Allison Pollard

• Agile coach and consultant

• Firm believer in continuous improvement

• DFW Scrum user group leader and Dallas Agile Leadership Network member

• Glasses wearer

Ronnie Cooke

• Agile Coach, Scrum Master, and Consultant

• Proud father• Missionary• Family Social Media

private investigator, prosecutor, and judge

Today’s Agenda• About Change

– Why people resist change– The change process– Approaching resistance– Finding congruence

• Being a Coach for Change– Building trust by listening– Training– Mentoring– Facilitating– Coaching

• Wrap Up and Takeaways

ABOUT CHANGE


Change!

• Move at least 2 tables away• Look to your left and right. You cannot sit next

to those people

Was that fun?


What are some things that make people resistant to change?

• Nothing is broken • Status/earned respect

with current• Don’t know how to do the

new behavior or practice• Like working the current

way/enjoyment• Sense of control with old• Perceived value of new

behavior or practice is low


People are willing to cross the Edge only if they see what’s in it for them

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The Edge is the line between the known and the unknown—it is at the limit of what we know about ourselves.

Organizations can cross Edges too

Organizational Edge

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Others’ resistance might put you at the Edge as a Coach

Directing won’t lead to real changes--recognize if you’re feeling stuck in certain behavior patterns


Can you see the person’s potential to change?

Start with who is closest to the Edge & willing to work with you


Can you acknowledge the past?

• Honor what they love about the past

• Build trust by listening (not by convincing)


Can you align Self, Other, and Context for Congruence?

• Self: your own needs and capabilities

• Other: the needs and capabilities of other people

• Context: the reality of the context (the larger external world of things, structures, processes, laws, and cultures) in which you are operating


BEING A COACH FOR CHANGE


Building Trust by Listening

• Inquiry: asking questions

• Acknowledgement: proving that you understand the other person

• Advocacy: sharing your own perspective


Activity

ListenerCoachSpeaker

• Listener: Select topic. Can only use inquiry and acknowledgement.

• Speaker: Antagonizes Listener. Can only use advocacy.

• Coach: Keeps the Listener on track.

A Coach’s Palette

Teaching Mentoring

Facilitating Coaching

Teaching • Short trumps long• Interactive appeals to

emotions, which is the most effective way to capture attention and memory

• Groups learn faster than individuals

• Reinforce core values and principles through games and simulations


Mentoring

• Describe who I am more than why I’m awesome

• Share my struggles and successes

• Mentoring brings your own capabilities into play—tell stories, give advice, suggest resources


Facilitating

Way to engage people in co-creating their own environments to set up the conditions for positive change from the start.


Coaching

• Coach the person, not the problem. If you coach the person, they’ll solve their own problem

• Ask powerful questions• Fully listening• Self-management


Coach’s ability to move and grow will help others to do the same


WRAP-UP & TAKEAWAYS


What do YOU want?

• To be right or to win?• To convince or to

connect?• As a coach, you cannot

want change for them and then expect it to happen—they have to want it for themselves.


Congruence


• Honor the past and seek to understand their needs

• How can you align your needs, others’ needs, and the context to effect change?

Elevating Your Skills

• Step back and assess where you are and how it’s going

• Are you willing to stretch yourself for change to happen?

• Try using different skills in your approach


Transforming the Organization• Consider the broader

organizational context and determine your best actions to positively affect it.

• Identify thought leaders and enroll them in the change. Once a majority is enrolled, most of the rest will fall in.

• The process will require time and continued support to effect the change. Not everyone will agree with the change.


Contact

Allison [email protected]@allison_pollardwww.allisonpollard.com

Ronnie [email protected]/ronniecooke

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.allisonpollard.com/




Changing organizational mindset

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