The document summarizes a presentation about self-organizing teams. It identifies 7 success factors and 7 failure factors for self-organizing teams. The success factors are having a purpose and vision, passion, cross-functional teams, empowerment, responsibility and accountability, acknowledgement, and letting the team happen. The failure factors are lack of management support, avoiding responsibility, traditional management, distrust, disrespect, impatience, and lack of purpose and vision. The presentation describes phases for developing ideas into successful projects with an online community called i-Sparks.

1. The Power and Illusion of
Self-Organizing Teams
Session AGL14
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Dr. Thomas Juli, PMP , CSM ® ®
Thomas Juli Empowerment Partners & i-Sparks
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2. Variations of team’s scope and authority
Self- Self-
Manager-
organized governing
led teams
teams teams
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3. 7 Preconditions for Unleashing the
Power of Self-Organizing Teams
1 - Purpose and vision
2 - Passion
3 - Cross-functional teams
4 - Empowerment
5 - Responsibility and accountability
6 - Acknowledgement
7 - Let it happen!
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4. 1 - Develop a compelling purpose and vision
of and for your project and team
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5. 2 - Nourish passion
in your purpose and vision
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6. 3 - Develop cross-functional teams
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7. 4 – Empower your team
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8. 5 - Team responsibility and accountability
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9. 6 - Acknowledge
performance, contributions and results
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10. 7 – Let it happen!
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11. The Power of Self-
Organizing Teams
7 Success Factors
1 - Purpose and vision
2 - Passion
3 - Cross-functional teams
4 - Empowerment
5 - Responsibility and
accountability
6 - Acknowledgement
7 - Let it happen!
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12. 7 factors that make self-organizing teams
an illusion
1 - No management support
2 - Avoiding responsibility
3 - Traditional management
4 - Distrust
5 - Disrespect
6 - Impatience
7 - Lack of purpose and vision
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13. 1 - No management support
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14. 2- Avoiding team responsibility
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15. 3 - Traditional management or
the death of empowerment
I am the boss!
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16. 4 - Distrust
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17. 5 - Disrespect
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18. Nurture Collaboration
“Players win games,
teams win championships.”
Bill Taylor
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19. 6 - Impatience with continuous improvement
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20. Fail Early to Learn Quickly
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21. Fail Early to Learn Quickly
and learn from your successes
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22. Actively create the conditions for a culture of learning*
* Note: Farmers don‘t grow crops.
They create the conditions for crops to grow.
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23. 7 - Lack of purpose and vision
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24. The Power & The Illusion
of Self-Organizing Teams
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25. The Power & The Illusion
of Self-Organizing Teams
7 Success Factors 7 Failure Factors
1 - Purpose and vision 1 - No management support
2 - Passion 2 - Avoiding responsibility
3 - Cross-functional teams 3 - Traditional management
4 - Empowerment 4 - Distrust
5 - Responsibility and 5 - Disrespect
accountability 6 - Impatience for continuous
6 - Acknowledgement improvement
7 - Let it happen! 7 - Lack of purpose and vision
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26. Your Experience
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27. Let‘s Play!
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28. Common Ground
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29. Common Ground
So, you have an idea for social change?
Do something about it!
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30. Too many ideas?
Start right here
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31. Growing Ideas Into Projects For Success
Idea(s) for Community of and for Setting up and
social change • Individuals executing projects
• Non-profit organizations for success
• Small businesses
1. IDEAS 2. INSPIRATION 3. INNOVATION
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32. Ideas Phase
In the Ideas phase you
describe your challenge
and/or idea for social change.
i-Sparks helps you assess
the root cause of the
challenge, develop a vision
statement and derive an
initial project objectives
statement.
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33. The 3 phases of growing ideas into projects for success
PHASE
1. IDEAS
• Assessing
Motivation (5
Why‘s)
• Building Vision
• Deriving initial
ACTIONS
Project objectives
MVP
RESULTS
• Motivation
• Vision
• Project proposal
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34. Inspiration Phase
In the Inspiration phase you share the results of the Ideas phase with the i-
Sparks community. You invite others to finetune your motivation, vision and
project statements and thus help build a foundation for project success.
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35. The 3 phases of growing ideas into projects for success
PHASE
2. INSPIRATION
• Sharing MVP with
community
• Identifying
possible matches
of MVPs and
ACTIONS
people
(interests, skills, e
tc.)
• Identifying
synergy effects
across MVPs
M
• Enhancing /
refining MVP V
P
• Matches of ideas
RESULTS
/
problems, projec
ts, people
• Refined MVP
• Project proposal
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36. Innovation Phase
In the Innovation phase you form your project team and set up the project for
success. i-Sparks facilitates this process and even helps you find the
necessary resources for your project to take off successfully.
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37. The 3 phases of growing ideas into projects for success
PHASE
3. INNOVATION
• Team forming &
norming
• Project setup:
Qualifying project
scope, developing
ACTIONS
project approach
with respect to
collaboration, perfor
mance, learning, resu
lts
• Crowdfunding
• Executing project
• Prototyping, deliv
ering interim
results
• Project team
RESULTS
• Project setup
• Project funding
• Project results
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38. Self-Organizing, High Performance, Fun
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39. Project Success
Project Success is not limited to the final and successful outcomes of the
three i-Sparks phases. It is an ongoing process of
discovering, sharing, learning and celebrating ideas, inspiration and innovation
for social change.
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40. i-Sparks is an online community that helps
people and organizations interested in
social change grow their ideas into projects
for success.
Dr. Thomas Juli
Founder and President, i-Sparks
Managing Director, Thomas Juli Empowerment Partners
Email:
tjuli@i-sparks.com
tj@thomasjuli.com
Web:
www.i-Sparks.net
www.ThomasJuli.com
www.TheProjectLeadershipPyramid.net
Twitter: i_sparks, thomasjuli
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