Culture for Great Teams and Results: 11 Easy Recipes (Agile Boston)

Your team can be ten times better.

What does that mean? That means your professional team can accomplish 10x more work, do it with 10x more quality, 10x faster, or with 10x less resources. Your family can be 10x happier. Your school can be 10x more effective at helping people learn. Your community group can be 10x better at making life better for the people it serves. Even you yourself can be 10x more effective at getting what you want.

In other words, you can be great. Your team can be great.

Greatness
Can you say these things about your teams?
- My projects are completed effortlessly on schedule and in budget every time.
- Every team I’ve ever been on has shared a vision.
- In meetings, we only ever do what will get results.
- No one blames “management," or anyone else, if they don’t get what they want.
- Everybody shares their best ideas right away.
- Ideas are immediately unanimously approved, improved, or rejected by the team.
- Action on approved ideas begins immediately.
- Conflict is always resolved swiftly and productively.

The Core Protocols are one way to make teams that have these characteristics.

Some of the things you’ll learn:
- Results-oriented behaviors,
- How to enter a state of shared vision with a team and stay there,
- How to create trust on a team
- How to stay rational and healthy
- How to make team decisions effectively, and
- How to move quickly and with high quality towards the team’s goals

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1. cba2015 Richard Kasperowski @rkasper skype:rkasperowski Google Hangout: kasperowski +1 617 466 9754 r@kasperowski.com Culture for Great Teams and Results: 11 Easy Recipes Richard Kasperowski @rkasper skype:rkasperowski Google Hangout: kasperowski +1 617 466 9754 r@kasperowski.com
2. cba2015 Richard Kasperowski @rkasper skype:rkasperowski Google Hangout: kasperowski +1 617 466 9754 r@kasperowski.com Richard Kasperowski Greatness Guild Agile Open Space Technology Core Protocols CoderDojo
3. cba2015 Richard Kasperowski @rkasper skype:rkasperowski Google Hangout: kasperowski +1 617 466 9754 r@kasperowski.com Why is this important?
4. cba2015 Richard Kasperowski @rkasper skype:rkasperowski Google Hangout: kasperowski +1 617 466 9754 r@kasperowski.com Manifesto for Greatness We feel GLAD, SAD, MAD and AFRAID. We have suffered mediocrity, broken promises, drama, selfishness and separation for too long. We are responsible for this mediocrity. We observe that GREATNESS emanates from SELF- AWARENESS, FAITH, HOPE, PASSION, COURAGE, WISDOM, JOY, LOVE, INTEGRITY, VULNERABILITY, SAFETY and TRUST. We have the tools—the Core Commitments and Core Protocols —that encode and deliver these virtues and ignite people to greatness. We want the world to live in love and greatness. WE ARE IN. Will you join us? greatnessguild.org/
5. cba2015 Richard Kasperowski @rkasper skype:rkasperowski Google Hangout: kasperowski +1 617 466 9754 r@kasperowski.com The Core Protocols: A Guide to Greatness gr8p.pl/corebook
6. cba2015 Richard Kasperowski @rkasper skype:rkasperowski Google Hangout: kasperowski +1 617 466 9754 r@kasperowski.com Core Commitments & Protocols • Intentional culture design for great teams and results • For this session, grouped into 5 categories Error Correction Productivity Connection Self-awareness Freedom
7. cba2015 Richard Kasperowski @rkasper skype:rkasperowski Google Hangout: kasperowski +1 617 466 9754 r@kasperowski.com Freedom • Why • Basis of great culture • How • The Core Commitments (p. 3) • Pass (Unpass) (p. 5) • Check Out (p. 7) Error Correction Productivity Connection Self-awareness Freedom
8. cba2015 Richard Kasperowski @rkasper skype:rkasperowski Google Hangout: kasperowski +1 617 466 9754 r@kasperowski.com 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) Error Correction Productivity Connection Self-awareness Freedom
9. cba2015 Richard Kasperowski @rkasper skype:rkasperowski Google Hangout: kasperowski +1 617 466 9754 r@kasperowski.com Activity: Check In • Check In (p. 6) • 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, 5 minutes
10. cba2015 Richard Kasperowski @rkasper skype:rkasperowski Google Hangout: kasperowski +1 617 466 9754 r@kasperowski.com 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) Error Correction Productivity Connection Self-awareness Freedom
11. cba2015 Richard Kasperowski @rkasper skype:rkasperowski Google Hangout: kasperowski +1 617 466 9754 r@kasperowski.com Activity: Investigate • Investigate (p. 20) • Learn about your partner’s Personal Alignment • Try asking, “What do you want?” • Same group of 3, 5 minutes
12. cba2015 Richard Kasperowski @rkasper skype:rkasperowski Google Hangout: kasperowski +1 617 466 9754 r@kasperowski.com Productivity • Why • Align together, deliver great products, achieve great results • How • Decider (p. 12) • Resolution (p. 15) • Perfection Game (p. 16) Error Correction Productivity Connection Self-awareness Freedom
13. cba2015 Richard Kasperowski @rkasper skype:rkasperowski Google Hangout: kasperowski +1 617 466 9754 r@kasperowski.com Error Correction • Why • Ensure we are maintaining freedom, self-awareness, connection, and productivity • How • Protocol Check (p. 10) Error Correction Productivity Connection Self-awareness Freedom
14. cba2015 Richard Kasperowski @rkasper skype:rkasperowski Google Hangout: kasperowski +1 617 466 9754 r@kasperowski.com Shared Vision • Why • These recipes enable us to connect, to understand ourselves and each other. • Eliminate Headgap • Collective intelligence • Group genius: total alignment, total trust, total vulnerability • How • Core Commitments & Protocols • Web of Commitment • Shared Vision Error Correction Productivity Connection Self-awareness Freedom
15. cba2015 Richard Kasperowski @rkasper skype:rkasperowski Google Hangout: kasperowski +1 617 466 9754 r@kasperowski.com Love “The Core is software to create love. Whether it persists where it's been created depends on the students. But one thing is clear to me—one never forgets how to create love after going through Core Protocols BootCamp even once.” - Julia Ivashina
16. cba2015 Richard Kasperowski @rkasper skype:rkasperowski Google Hangout: kasperowski +1 617 466 9754 r@kasperowski.com Want more practice? • Intro to Culture for Great Teams and Results • 1 hour • Shared Vision Workshop • Personal Alignment, team alignment, and Shared Vision • 1 day • Core Protocols BootCamp • Demonstrably great team • 5 days
17. cba2015 Richard Kasperowski @rkasper skype:rkasperowski Google Hangout: kasperowski +1 617 466 9754 r@kasperowski.com Thank you! Richard Kasperowski @rkasper skype:rkasperowski Google Hangout: kasperowski +1 617 466 9754 r@kasperowski.com gr8p.pl/corebook