Lost in Translation: The Manager’s Role in Agile

We're excited to have Michael Sahota speaking at Lean Agile Germany on the role of managers in agile transformations.

Summary
Your organization has moved to autonomous, self-organizing teams. Everyone is trained and coached on their new role. But what about managers? The role of a manager is undefined. Management is told, “Go figure out your new role” or simply “Stop micromanaging”. They are often still responsible for the outcomes, yet are stripped of authority. It turns out managers are people too - and their treatment is often inhumane and unhelpful for creating lasting change. Managers were seen as the glue that holds an organization together … now what happens? How can we all journey together?

We offer an alternate view, where Agile Transformation is understood as an evolution of organizational culture. Success depends on shifts in the behaviours of both staff and management. The Agile Mindset or Being Agile is a prerequisite for making structural changes. Jumping to advanced stages of evolution where there is high autonomy is a painful trap. An incremental and iterative (Agile) approach to shifting power away from managers to individual contributors is more effective.

Learning Outcomes
Identification and warning signs that managers are lost or left behind in Agile Transformation
Understanding the gap between the promise of autonomy and self-organization and the actual reality of this promise
Ability to use Sahota culture model to differentiate between focus on people or process
How to effectively integrate leadership roles back into the organization.

Speaker Bio:
Michael is the founder and CEO of SHIFT314 Inc - a boutique training and consulting organization that specializes in the organizational culture and leadership shifts needed to unlock success with Agile, Digital, Lean, etc. He is the co-creator of the SHIFT314 Evolutionary Leadership Framework™ (SELF) that provides practical step-by-step for the inner and outer shifts needed to unlock Business Agility, Teal and other new ways of working. Michael has trained thousands of leaders worldwide through his highly accoladed Certified Agile Leadership Training. In 2012, he published the ground-breaking book "An Agile Adoption and Transformation Survival Guide: Working with Organizational Culture". Michael’s upcoming book “Leading Beyond Change” will be released Aug 2021

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Agenda:
17:45 Event Opens, Networking
18:00 The Talk
19:15 Event Ends

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