Learn different leadership styles with Star Wars Coaches talk at Agile2013 by Bruno Sbille

1. Bruno Sbille
Learn different leadership styles with Star Wars coaches.
Please sit in
group of 4. We
would like to have
teams of 4
members.

2. Learn different
leadership styles with
Star Wars Coaches
@BrunoSbille

4. Name: Bruno Sbille
Job: Trainer & Coach
Location: Belgium
Your Coach
http://brunosbille.com @BrunoSbille bruno.sbille@gmail.com

5. Prerequisites

6. The Empire (Bad Guys)

7. Rebel Alliance (Good
Guys)

8. Jedi Knights

9. Management
styles ?
Leadership
styles ?
Whatever
styles ?

10. How will we work ?
A clip
introduce
the style
We explain
the style
We will practice
the style through
role playing

11. Episode I

12. Nom: DarthVador
(Anakin Skywalker,
father of Luke)
Job: Supreme
Commander of the
Imperial Forces
Location: Death Star,
Admiral Ship
Your Coach

14. Context
Disagreement on a
subject
Employee made a
mistake

15. We call this...

16. The Blame Culture

17. Blame Culture:
characteristics
• Any problem is due to someone’s mistake !
• Usually any change is considered as a threat
• People doing mistakes must be punished
• Use of fear
• Point that all problems occur because of
the person’s mistake only
• “Because of you,...”

18. Someone did
already
experience
this in
professional
world ?

19. Episode II

20. Nom: Han Solo
Job: Space Pirate
Location: Millennium
Falcon
Your Coach

22. Context
We are under attack
I give orders (I tell you
what to do)

23. We call this...

24. Directive Management

25. Directive Management:
characteristic
• I tell you what I want you to do
• I explain “How” I want you to do it
• The person has few opportunity to think
or decide by himself
• Every move is controlled

26. Someone did
already
experience
this in
professional
world ?

27. JEDI Workshop

28. Role Playing
• Via role playing, you are gonna experience
the different styles
• By giving them
• By receiving them
• By observing

29. Step I We are a
team of 4

30. Step II
I will be
Manager
I will be
the employee
I will be
the coach
I will be
the coach

31. Roles
I will be
Manager
My role will be, on a
given situation, I will
discuss with the
employee using a
management style
Manager

32. Roles
I will be
the employee
I will listen to the
Manager and pay
attention to what I
feel, what I think.
Which message did I
receive ?
Employee

33. Roles
Coach
2 coaches
Coach
We observe: word
used, body language,
what do we feel?
We are in charge of
the process: roles are
respected, instructions
of the exercise are
applied
We are time-keeper

34. Step III I choose a style I will
experiment
I choose a context, a
situation.
I can choose a context
from my personal
context, or I can pick
one from the context
list
Employee Manager

35. Step III:
example 1
I will experiment
giving this style:
directive management
The context will be:
I’m an expert of the IT
Platform and I will as a
Developer to do some
tasks on it.
(This context is from
my personal
experience)
Employee Manager

36. Step III:
example II
I will experiment
giving this style: Blame
Culture
I’ve no idea for the
context so I pick this
subject from the
subject list:
“A developer has
taken an initiative
resulting in a
production problem”
Employee Manager

37. Step IV: Let’s do
this during
5 minutes
Employee Manager
Hello, I wanted to
talk to you about
something...
Coach
Coach
Ha...?!

38. V: Debriefing
within the team
5 min
Employee
Manager
Coach
Coach
How do you feel ?
What do you think ?
What happened ?
What did you observe ?
Did you like to “give” this
style ?
Did you like to “receive” this
style ?

39. StepVI: Let do this again
but...
> Change the roles in the
team
> Experience a new style
Employee Manager
Coach Coach

40. Episode III

41. Name:Yoda
Job: Master Jedi
Location: Dagobah
Your Coach

43. Context
He is looking for a
hidden planet
Yoda ask if any student
has an idea

44. We call this...

45. Personal consideration

46. Personal
Consideration
• Doing something especially and uniquely
for the person. Consider the person as sole
and unique
• According to the person’s interests
• According to the person’s motivations
• Give the person the opportunity to shine

47. Someone did
already
experience
this in
professional
world ?

48. Episode IV

49. Name: General
Dodoma
Job: Rebel Forces Chief
and Tactician
Location:Alliance
Secret Base (Yavin)
Your Coach

51. Context
Our objective, destroy
the enemy base
We have some
constraints

52. We call this...

53. Management by objectives

54. Management by objectives
• I’m more interested in final results than in the
method. (What & Why > How)
• I explain the results I expect
• I define the framework where the action should
take place
• I identify resources (human, tools, finances,...)
• I explain both positive and negative consequences (if
the objective is reached or not)
• I explain the Timing

55. Example

56. • I need an operational Scrum Team. By operational, I
mean they can work using Scrum on our Web
projects
• I want 50% of internal employees and 50% of external
consultants (because of budget reasons and to keep a
certain balance)
• You need to collaborate with Sylvie from HR.We
have to respect our shortlisted suppliers
• The team must be ready by 1st February 2013
• If you can achieve this, we will use Scrum in our
organization. If not, there’s a risk for Scrum to be
considered as non-adapted for us.
• You will be the Scrum Master

57. Someone did
already
experience
this in
professional
world ?

58. Debriefing Workshop

59. NOW FORGET
about the terms
EMPLOYEE and
MANAGERS
Anybody can use styles
with anyone

60. Which style do you
prefer to give ?

61. Which style do you
prefer to receive ?

62. We are “day one” with
a brand new team what
style would you pick ?

63. What’s the best style ?

64. It depends...

65. Adapt Management &
Leadership styles...

66. To the person...

67. and to the context

68. Adapt Management &
Leadership styles to the
context and to the
person

69. Other Styles
• Charismatic
• Visionary
• By exception
• By example

70. Luke:“All right, I'll give it a try...”
Yoda:“No.Try not. Do... or do not.There
is no try.”