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Building teams imbibed with a culture of innovation - Powered by Agile
https://www.agilechennai.com/

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Prelude
 Who Am I?
 Delivery/Program Manager, Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Product Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhandy-k/

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Problem statement – In person or Hybrid
 Why people feel disconnected with the organization?
 Why some teams lack stickiness, especially new joiners?
 Why is there a lack of innovation quotient?

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A small (real) story
Agile Way of Working – Seamless movement to WFH

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How to imbibe and retain culture
1. Ownership
2. Initial Hand-holding
3. Creating Safe space
4. Leadership Check-in
5. Share the story!

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Ownership
 Managers must let go
 Empower the team – by building & gaining “Trust”
 Enable the team – by creating a fault tolerant environment

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Initial Handholding
 Capture the team’s Principles – Purpose & Value Statements
 Induct into principles
 Create open culture – to voice questions/concerns

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Create Safe Space for Innovation
 Only watercooler conversation initiate Innovation?
 Innovation Summit
 Safe space for innovation
 No mocking
 No hijacking
 Bounce idea
 Open collaboration

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Leadership Check-in
 Check pulse – at all levels – ears on the ground
 Must not be top-down communication
 Right action at the right time – Covid scenario
How to get the leaders to do it?
Living Agile

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Share Stories
 Circle of confluence
 Share stories of success, learning…

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Take Away’s!
 Managers must let go of “Power” for the team to take “Ownership”
 Handhold on organization/team culture, speak about it!
 Allow the team to openly raise concern and act on it!
 Create safe space for innovations…
 Listen often and
 Share learnings as stories…

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Thank You
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