This is the first workshop that digs a bit deeper in the the topic Leadership within the Lean Team Canvas. It is a startup focused methodology to build teams that simply rock. Powered by leanteam.org
3. GOALS FORTODAY
•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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5. LEANTEAM LEADERSHIP ?
•StartupTeams ≠ Big BusinessTeams
•Conditions of extreme uncertainty
•Minimal resources
•Lack of experience
•Startups need a special team management
methodology
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6. LEANTEAM 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.
7. LEANTEAM 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.
9. 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?
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10. 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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12. 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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14. 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
15. 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: YourTeam need to brainstorm new ideas for a campaign.
• Situation 4: It‘s an average day ..
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16. 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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17. 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: YourTeam need to brainstorm new ideas for a campaign.
• Situation 4: It‘s an average day ..
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19. START WITH WHY
•Simon Sinek -The Golden Circle
•What? rational - factual - logical
•How? context - decision-making
•Why? purpose - emotion - instinct
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20. EXERCISE 3:YOURVISION
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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21. 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
challenge@leanteam.org
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25. CREATIVE COMMONS
LeanTeam Canvas is adapted fromThe Business Model Canvas
(BusinessModelGeneration.com) and is licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Un-ported License.
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