How To Use Self-Selection To Form Happy, Effective Teams

How do you create engaged, happy, and effective teams? By empowering employees to choose their own teams and projects! Self-selection is a replicable, iterative process that increases team effectiveness, engagement, and happiness. Amber Field, seasoned agilist and speaker, reveals the secret sauce behind building dream teams. From tech giants to academia, she's revolutionized team dynamics at Capital One Labs, Deloitte, Opower (acquired by Oracle), and even in UW-Madison's Computer Science program. In this eye-opening session, you'll discover:

• The counterintuitive magic of letting employees choose their own teams and projects
• Real-world success stories that will challenge everything you thought you knew about team building
• A step-by-step guide to implement self-selection in your organization

Ready to create your own high-performing agile teams? Your self-selection journey starts here!

Our Speaker:
Amber Field is the former Chief Operating Officer at Strudel AI, a Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and author of the book, Agile Discovery & Delivery: A Survival Guide for New Software Engineers & Tech Entrepreneurs. She has been an executive leader in tech, agile proponent, and engineer for her entire career at a number of organizations including IBM, National Geographic, Oracle Utilities (formerly Opower), Capital One, and Singlewire Software. Amber frequently speaks at conferences and blogs at amberrfield.com. She lives in Madison, WI.

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