This document discusses leadership development and agile transformation. It outlines three levels of leadership: expert, achiever, and catalyst. It encourages leaders to let go and empower self-organizing teams for better outcomes. Leaders are advised to make decisions more objective and use OKRs with clear and measurable goals. The document is presented by David Hawks from Agile Velocity, an agile coaching firm that helps organizations achieve business results through agility.

1. David Hawks | @austinagile
Path to Agile
Leadership

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David Hawks
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• Executive Agile Coach
• Founder, Agile Velocity
• Certified Scrum Trainer
• Certified Enterprise Coach
• Path to Agility Facilitator
Contact:
@austinagile
david@agilevelocity.com

4. Taylorism
Command and Control
Standards
UtilizationManagement 1.0

5. Management 1.0
Management 2.0
Lean
Eliminate Waste
Reduce Volatility

6. Management 1.0
Management 2.0
Management 3.0
Agile
Empower the
Worker
Servant Leadership

7. Empower Team
Excellence

8. Three Levels of Leadership Development

9. Expert Leader

10. Achiever Leader

11. Catalyst Leader

12. Where do you see yourself playing?
Breakout Discussion for 5 minutes

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Foster a Learning Culture
Foster a Learning Culture
What is needed from the leader:
• For the team to take ownership?
• For the team to establish a learning culture?

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Let Go

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Letting Go
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As a leader, what do you need to do to “Let Go”
and allow the team to thrive?
Take a minute and jot down a couple thoughts

16. Decision Agility

17. Traditional Hierarchy Network of Teams
How does the decision making differ in the two models?
1. How do the leaders need to operate differently?
2. How do the employees operate differently?
3. What are the benefits of each?
Breakout Discussion for 6 minutes

18. Self-Organizing teams lead to better outcomes

19. Knowledge
Workers
want
Autonomy

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Decisions
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Write down 3 different leadership decisions made at your company
recently:
1. What was a really tough decision?
2. What was a really easy decision?
3. What was one in the middle?

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Delegation Levels
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Delegation Poker
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1. Take turns in your group reading one your decisions
2. Everyone simultaneously votes (use fingers) for one of the following delegation levels
3. Discuss
4. Repeat on next decision
Breakout Activity for 6 minutes

23. Purpose Driven
Leadership

24. Go Get Me a Rock!

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Subjective vs Objective Decision Making
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Which of the following is a subjective vs objective based decision criteria?
A. The CEO selects features X, Y and Z as the highest priority
B. 20% of customers surveyed say that Feature X is important
C. A Sales Rep says if we get this feature done she can close a $5M deal
D. The Sales VP wants a feature complete by the June 15th TradeShow
E. When A/B tested version B of the feature performed 5% better
F. 300 New customers provided their email on the landing page for our new
offering
G. 30% of shoppers abandon their cart at the place order page
Breakout Discussion for 6 minutes

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Objective
• Key Result 1: ________________
• Key Result 2: ________________
• Key Result 3: _______________
Objective: _____________________

27. 5 Elements of OKR
Make Goals
Inspiring
Failure
Happens
Always
Measure
Progress
Make Goals
Public
Make Clear
Goals

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Bad and Good OKRs
Drive Customer Promoters
• Implement 5 new features
• Post job to hire 3 new CSRs
Improve Employee Engagement
• Run employee satisfaction survey by
March 30
• Schedule 1-1s with all employees
• Create plan to implement OKRs
Drive Customer Promoters
• Average monthly NPS of over 25
• <90 day repeat business increase of
20%
Improve Employee Engagement
• Average monthly eNPS score of over 50
• Conduct weekly Fun Fridays with an
external speaker
• 4 New innovation ideas pitched at the
monthly meeting by employees

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business results. Results like predictability, speed, employee
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