Getting Intentional About Rank and Power in Agile Organizations
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Rank and power can be used with respect, or they can be abused. They show up in traditionally structured, waterfall, hierarchical organizations, and they also show up in agile organizations of varying governance models, often in different ways. The purpose of this session is to get intentional about rank and power. How can we handle them in our organizations in ways that embody core agile values of respect, collaboration and individuals and interactions? In what ways is this possible inside organizational systems that carry traces of a command and control past in their governance models, policies and ways of working? Initial approaches this presentation will explore involve the care and feeding of two kinds of agility to address rank and power: organizational agility and leadership agility. We will explore the topic of getting intentional around rank and power in agile organizations first in a brief overview, then an experiential game on rank borrowed from improv, then an open space.
Guest Facilitator: Kelly Fidei
Kelly is an enterprise agile coach and transformation leader, who leads from her core values of respect, kindness, curiosity and fun. She is also a professional coach, certified through the International Coaching Federation, Coactive Coaching, Organizational and Relationship Systems Coaching, and the Center for Nonviolent Communication. She is passionate about agile throughout the entire organization, including organizational and leadership agility development as well as product, delivery and execution agility. She leads the agile coach group at Paylocity, and also recently established the Leadership Development Program there. She now coaches leaders and teams in it and leads it in a cohort model. Her current topics of interest for workshops and publications involve how culture change happens sustainably in agile organizations, ways to be intentional around rank and power in organizational cultures, and creating agile organizations that can respond creatively to constant change, and where people are free to bring their whole selves to work.