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Nothing undermines a culture faster than the presence of danger and mistrust.
But how to define toxic behaviors?
My friend,Jeroen Kraaijenbrink, has unique definitions of those:
HiPPO – Highest Paid Person’s Opinion
ZEBRA – Zero Evidence But Really Arrogant
WOLF – Working On the Latest Fire
RHINO – Really Here In Name Only
SEAGULL – Senior Executive that Always Glides in, Unloads and Leaves Loudly
DODO – Dangerously OutDated Opinions
ViPER – Vindictive Person Endangering Results
MOUSE – Muddled Opinions, Usually Swayed Easily
PARROT – Pretty Annoying and Ridiculously Repeating OThers
DONKEY – Data Only, No Knowledge, Expertise or whY
Useful concepts to consider when working with teams. While different methods are needed to address these challenges at some point, summarizing best practices for building focused, motivated, self organizing collaborative teams that improve with effective feedback is important. I have several reference points that have been helpful to me.
Key tips to start building effective teams >> go beyond Agile
- building focused, motivated, self organizing collaborative teams that improve with effective feedback is important. I have several reference points that have been helpful to me.
- what's in it for the company?
- what's in it for the team?
- what's in it for me?
- expectations, consequences
- CBTP focus
- powerful communication, consensus, collaboration
- democratic autocracy on decisions, organizing
- continuous focus on execution, change management, stakeholder consensus, value delivery
- Project Homeruns >> how to deliver solutions: Discovery, Assessment, Design
How to Score Big on Investments in Business, IT
How to raise your PBA (Project Batting Average ) to .900 for on time, on budget, on value delivery?
- find the domain and stakeholders << VCE definition?
- find the purpose << mission, value for the domain?
- find the challenges << what are the current issues and problem statements?
- find the history <<. what were the expectations, investments, consequences of past efforts?
- find the goals and priorities now << what are the current goals, priorities and related KPI, OKR metrics
- find the best solution strategy << given the goals, resources, needs, what is a candidate best solution strategy? << VCRS
- find the potential value << research the potential value, impacts for a "best" solution strategy with those responsible for delivery and operation << FACTUR3DT.io << POVs
- find stakeholder consensus << net value for change? ownership? VCRS keys communication, consensus, collaboration methods
- find the commitment for the solution << CBTP << new expectations << new solution commitments << resource and solution planning strategies, tactics
- kick off the solution process
Candidate Solutions
Step-by-step guide for Example
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