Lean Team Leadership Workshop 1
Transcript of Lean Team Leadership Workshop 1
LEAN TEAM LEADERSHIP
Workshop Material
ABOUT
•Ben Sufiani
•Air Force
•Psychology
•Campus for Company
•6fold
•Lean Camp
•Startup Weekend
•NEXT2
GOALS FOR TODAY
•Digging deeper into leadership
•Setting a vision for your team
•Knowing your team better
•Realizing your own style
•Avoiding common mistakes
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FOR WHO IS THIS?
•Startup Team Leader and Member
•Intrapreneurial Teams
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LEAN TEAM LEADERSHIP ?
•Startup Teams ≠ Big Business Teams
•Conditions of extreme uncertainty
•Minimal resources
•Lack of experience
•Startups need a special team management methodology
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LEAN TEAM CANVAS
Visuals by Johanna
Rosenbusch
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Lean Team Canvas is adapted from The Business Model Canvas (BusinessModelGeneration.com) and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Un-ported License.
LEAN TEAM CANVAS
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Lean Team Canvas is adapted from The Business Model Canvas (BusinessModelGeneration.com) and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Un-ported License.
LEADERSHIP
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LEADERSHIP
•How do I lead the team?
•It takes more then being an awesome technician
•Be a visionary + manager + technician is key
•Communicate the vision and the way (pivot anyone?)
•What are all the mistakes your old boss made ?
•What is your unique, authentic leadership style?9
LEADERSHIP
•How is the team organized to perform?
•Assign roles and responsibilities according to skill
•Clearly define the key workflows
•Establish actionable performance metrics
•Show the direction, but let the team improve the process
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LEARNING LEADERSHIP
„Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.“
Henry Mintzberg
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EXERCISE 1: DOS & DON‘TS
1. Make a list of the 10 things done to you by bosses (,teachers or parents) that you hated.
2. Make a list of 10 things done to you that you really liked.
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LEADERSHIP STYLES
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IDENTIFYING LEADERSHIP STYLES
• Authoritarian
• centralized decision making
• no suggestions permitted
• Participative
• democratic decision making
• promoting interests of the group
• Laissez-fair
• leaving the group to fend for itself
• members create own policies and rules
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http://psychology.about.com/library/quiz/bl-leadershipquiz.htm
EXERCISE 2.1: CHOOSING A STYLE
• Situation 1: Your sit with you team in your weekly meeting.
• Situation 2: Bullets are flying, Deadlines are due, Hell is loose!
• Situation 3: Your Team need to brainstorm new ideas for a campaign.
• Situation 4: It‘s an average day ..
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IDENTIFYING LEADERSHIP STYLES
• Task-oriented
• Focus on the task
• Step-by-step solutions
• Goals are the priority
• Deadlines need to be met
• Relationship-oriented
• Focus on group relationship
• well-being and satisfaction of team
• emphasize on communication
• shows trust and appreciation
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EXERCISE 2.2: CHOOSING A STYLE
• Situation 1: Your sit with you team in your weekly meeting.
• Situation 2: Bullets are flying, Deadlines are due, Hell is loose!
• Situation 3: Your Team need to brainstorm new ideas for a campaign.
• Situation 4: It‘s an average day ..
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LEADING WITH VISION
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START WITH WHY
•Simon Sinek - The Golden Circle
•What? rational - factual - logical
•How? context - decision-making
•Why? purpose - emotion - instinct
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EXERCISE 3: YOUR VISION
1. What do you do with your team?
2. How do you do it?
3. Why do you do it?
4. If you had a gun to you head,forced to tweet you vision publicly, how would you use the 140 characters?
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YOUR LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES
• What is your major leadership challenge?
• What a situation you would like to talk about with likeminded people?
• Get feedback via [email protected]
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WORKSHOPS & TALKS
•Workshop I 22.04.2013 17-21 o‘clock
•Workshop II13.05.201317-21 o‘clock
•Talk IIaround 06.2013
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RESOURCES
•Lean Team Mangementleanteam.org
•Delivering Happiness - Tony Hsiehhttp://www.amazon.de/dp/145550890X
•Tribal Leadership - David Loganhttp://about.zappos.com/tribalhttp://www.amazon.de/dp/0061251321
•The E-Myth Revisited - Michael Gerberhttp://www.amazon.de/dp/0887307280
•Good to Great - Jim Collinshttp://www.amazon.de/dp/0066620996
•Lewin‘s Leadership Styles Quizhttp://psychology.about.com/library/quiz/bl-leadershipquiz.htm
•Start with Why - Simon Sinekhttp://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspire_action.html
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CONTACT
• Ben Sufiani
• https://www.facebook.com/ben.sufiani
• https://twitter.com/bensufiani
• http://bensufiani.de
• +49-176-30543705
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CREATIVE COMMONS
Lean Team Canvas is adapted from The Business Model Canvas (BusinessModelGeneration.com) and is licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Un-ported License.
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