awesome teams: games for continuous (extreme?) teaming

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Awesome Teams Games for Continuous (Extreme?) Teaming

Richard Kasperowski | Greatness Guild

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Core Protocols Agile

Open Space Technology






Mediocrity






Happy Birthday, Greatness Guild!






What is the best team you were ever on?






Do you want more of that?

Practical guide to the elements of great teams

12 fun activities!






There are 3 important things in modern Agile

• Mob Programming

• Building Great Teams with Core Protocols

• Open Space Agility

- Harold Shinsato






Why this, why now?






Positive Bias

Non-negativity No negation

Pretend






Try it: Yes, but …

• With a partner, make a plan for dinner tonight.

• Yes, but … (60 seconds)

• Yes, and … (60 seconds)






Try it: Improv Story Telling

• With a group, tell a story. Always respond, “Yes, and …”






Continuous (Extreme) Teaming

Turn up the good!






Freedom

• Why: Basis of great culture

• How

• The Core Commitments (p. 3)

• Pass (Unpass) (p. 5)

• Check Out (p. 7)






Self-awareness• Why: A great self is atomic unit of a

great team

• How

• Check In (p. 6)

• Ask For Help (p. 8)

• Personal Alignment (p. 18)






I feel _______.MAD, SAD, GLAD, AFRAID

Describe to yourself why you feel that way.






Try it: Check In• Speaker says, “I feel [one or more of MAD, SAD, GLAD, AFRAID].”

Speaker may add a brief explanation. Speaker may say, “I pass.”

• Speaker says, “I’m in.”

• Listeners respond, “Welcome.”

• Groups of 3, 3 minutes






Continuous Check InEither

- periodically, or - whenever there is a state change

Check In






I want _____________.Self-awareness*

Integrity Courage Passion Peace

Presence Self-care

Fun Wisdom Health






Try it: Super-fast Personal Alignment• Complete this

sentence:

• “I want ___________.”

• Fill in the blank with a virtue from this list: Self-awareness (default answer), Integrity, Courage, Passion, Peace, Presence, Self-care, Fun, Wisdom, Health

• To guide you:

• Imagine it is the only thing you want.

• Imagine you single-mindedly pursued it.

• Imagine that if you had all of it that the universe has to offer, you could obtain everything else you want.

• Solo, 2 minutes

• See Personal Alignment & Personal Alignment Express at thecoreprotocols.org





http://thecoreprotocols.org


Connection• Why: Connect great people into a great

team, totally cohesive and supporting each other toward shared goal

• How

• Check In (p. 6)

• Ask For Help (p. 8)

• Intention Check (p. 11)

• Personal Alignment (p. 18)

• Investigate (p. 20)






I’m curious.Will you tell me more about _________________?






Try it: Investigate• Learn about your partners’ Personal Alignment.

• Be curious. Don’t ask leading questions. Don’t push help on your partners.

• Try opening with “What is your Personal Alignment?” or “What do you want?”

• Same group of 3, 5 minutes






Fast Friendship






Productivity• Why: Align together, deliver great

products, achieve great results

• How

• Decider (p. 12)

• Resolution (p. 15)

• Perfection Game (p. 16)






Error Handling

• Why: Ensure we are maintaining freedom, self-awareness, connection, and productivity

• How

• Protocol Check (p. 10)






Continuous (Extreme) Teaming• Turn up the good!

• Team building event once a year all the time

• Continuous Check In

• Continuous Ask for Help

• Continuous Investigate

• Continuous Decision Making

• Test-Driven Teaming

• Continuous Core Protocols






Do you want a great Agile Games 2016 experience?

Try:

- Positive bias

- Continuous Check In

- Continuous Investigate






Will you help me make this presentation the best?

Perfection Game






Do you want an easy way?• … to measure your team’s emotional

health and psychological safety?

• … to compare your team to global norms?

• … to know which behaviors in your team culture to work on?

GreatTeamsSurvey.com





http://greatteamssurvey.com


Do you want an easy way?

• … to learn and embody these behaviors?

GreatTeamsAcademy.com

Discount code: AG2016





http://greatteamsacademy.com


Do you want an easy way?

• … to go to Italy for a week?

GreatnessGuild.org







Key take-aways• The attributes and behaviors of

high-performance teams are known and learnable.

• Core Protocols → team emotional intelligence → psychological safety → high-performance team

• Continuous Teaming: Turn up the good! Team building is good. Use Core Protocols to do team building all the time.






Richard KasperowskiI help people build great teams that get

great results.

Core Protocols Agile

Open Space Technology






To Learn More

• Ask Richard for help

• Visit thecoreprotocols.org

• Open Space

• Events: kasperowski.com





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