Unlearning Silence In Scrum: 3 Ways To Increase Courage, Openness & Transparency

Ever been on a team where it was unsafe to speak the truth, especially if it was hard to hear for powerful stakeholders? Remember how it turned out?

Scrum rests on the three empirical pillars: transparency, inspection, and adaptation. Transparency requires that the Scrum Team and its stakeholders are open about the work and the challenges, and have the courage to do the right thing - to work on tough problems.

However, courage and openness are difficult if teams feel unsafe to speak up. Teams learn to be silent to cope with the fear of retribution. When teams are silent, transparency decreases, poor decisions are made, risk increases and value gets destroyed.

If you are curious to learn about some levers you might push next time you are in a similar situation, please join this interactive session by Harvard trained communication expert Elaine Lin Hering - the author of the USA Today Bestselling book Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Lead With Courage (Penguin).

Elaine will facilitate a guided inquiry to explore these topics...

• The "Just Do It" approach
• Changing the calculus
• Three Levers of Voice
• Helpful resources
• What next

Attendees will be eligible for a giveaway from Elaine at the end of the session.