How do you get hearts and minds to change? How do you get past long-standing behaviors and reinforced patterns of thinking so you can begin to do things a new way? Possibly a better way?
Let’s say you wanted to move from a command-and-control management style toward a more empowering, human-centered leadership style. How would you go about asking those managers to change? Those leaders to change? To risk it all in hopes of finding a better way. In large part, our behaviors are driven by what each of us sees as necessary to get results within the bounds of our organization’s operating model. We play by the accepted rules for how everyone works. Leaders often behave in a command-and-control manner because the company’s operating model is chaotic, impossible to understand, and doesn’t produce results. So, they take control and drive results.
What if they became empowering servant leaders in the presence of a chaotic, impossible-to-understand operating model that doesn’t produce results? They would most likely fail. To get your people to change, your leaders to change, and your organizations to change, you must change the environment each of them operates in. You must change the rules of the game.
This talk will explore the organizational attributes and behaviors that truly support a culture of Agility. We’ll look at the systems necessary to reinforce and guide those behaviors. We will evaluate the things we see in many organizations that get in the way of people being their best selves. Finally, we’ll explore how to systematically introduce changes that make it possible for each of us to think, behave, and deliver in a truly Agile manner.
