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Abstract
Organizations evolve. Industry tools and practices change. Individuals have a wide array of opportunities. As leaders, we have to navigate ambiguity, and provide structure for individuals to support their growth, while also enabling a group of individuals to come together and align to deliver business value. There is no perfect path to help build a team that is optimized for every context that can weather each change. But, there are practices and tools you can adopt to support your teams' journey towards team flow.
In this talk, I will share my people-centric approach to building teams with individuals that engage, connect, align and support one another to deliver value in a sustainable manner. You'll walk away with some tips that you can implement (as well as the context as to when to apply them) in three key areas:
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Functional Leadership - Different situations require different kinds of leadership. You need to enable the right kind of leadership at different moments in time. How do you enable individuals to embrace their leadership capabilities?
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Boundary Setting - What boundaries do you need to set that support the individuals and the team? How do you enforce the boundaries?
- Learning and Adaptability - How do you make time for people to not only learn, but share what they've learned so the rest of the team can make sense of the decisions they've made and the team as a whole can adapt to this knowledge?
QCon San Francisco 2022 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.
Part of the track
Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow Hosted by Courtney Kissler CTO @zulilyFrom the same track
Tuesday 25 October
10:35 Ballroom A Session Optimization Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow Collette Tauscher Director of Supply Chain Strategy @Columbia1938 Do you find yourself asking how do we ensure teams are aligned, working together, and delivering value to the organization all while continuing to find optimization opportunities over time? How do we build intentional resilience, predictability and agility? 11:50 Seacliff ABC Session Optimization Modeling Patterns for Digital Transformation Asif Iqbal Global Director, Digital & Experience Design @Alimentation Couche-Tard Digital transformation is not about new cool technologies, it’s a mindset shift and requires the awareness and understanding of customer needs. 13:40 Seacliff ABC Session AMA: Optimizing Teams Jayashree Atre, Collette Tauscher, Asif Iqbal, Jennifer Davis Transformation is needed and hard. Many companies have had starts and stops, made great progress, made limited progress, had major and minor setbacks and some haven’t even started. 14:55 Seacliff D Session Unconference: Optimizing Teams for Fast Flow Shane Hastie Global Delivery Lead for SoftEd and Lead Editor for Culture & Methods at InfoQ.com What is an unconference? At QCon SF, we’ll have unconferences in most of our tracks. 16:10 Ballroom A Session Navigating Complex Environments and Evolving Relationships Jennifer Davis Engineering Manager @Google Organizations evolve. Industry tools and practices change. Individuals have a wide array of opportunities. 17:25 Seacliff ABC Session Optimization [Recording] How to Win as a Tech Team in a New Reality That Feels Like a Mad Max Movie? Mehnaaz Abidi Vice President Product, Runtastic @adidas, Previously @Nike @Tesco and @Amazon Most of us can’t remember how we worked before the pandemic hit. I remember I used to catch a train to get to work every day at Nike’s European headquarters in Hilversum, Netherlands. We were already a distributed team and had a fantastic infrastructure to connect with colleagues worldwide.