Squadify Connects: Recent Episodes
Pia Lee and Dan Hammond
Welcome to the miniseries on rockstar team skills. This is your grab bag of mind and skill sets that will help you to handle almost any situation and deliver the best possible outcome. We will be keeping this simple and using just a couple of core tools in different ways so that you don't have to remember a thousand frameworks and you can go deeper with your expertise through practice
When change hits your team or organization, individuals can feel quite isolated as they journey the grief curve and manage their own emotions. Creating a psychologically safe place for your team members to bring together their shared experiences is a way to ease these challenges that they face.
Agile is a team sport and your team needs to be in shape to make it work. So this week we're taking a look at how you can make sure that the human side is supporting this approach to execution.
So many challenges that teams take on today are new, so a crucial part of our agile approach is learning. Getting good at that will accelerate your team and give you better outcomes.
So you are up and running in your sprint and you've run a standup. We're going to fast forward to the end of the sprint now to look at another essential agile ceremony: the retro.
Your team is now really clear on what it's doing and crucially not doing in the month sprint. That lies ahead. This week, we're looking at what happens along the way to make the sprint a success.
This week we get into action and share the secrets of teams that plan and execute together with total transparency. There are sophisticated versions of this, but as you know us, we keep things very simple and we'll get you started as an agile team in just a few days.
We've talked a lot about getting your clarity as a team really nailed down. And in this episode we'll take it to the next level. How can you maintain clarity of direction and also adapt as conditions change, and as you learn?
Teams are here to get stuff done together. So this new miniseries on execution is going to be action packed, and we hope will become a key part of your leadership toolkit here at Squadify. We've built and work-tested a form of agile that any team can use to unite and accelerate. And we're gonna let you in on some of those secrets.
When Squadify looked at the rankings of the specific team tracker questions from its global set of over 30,000 team members and then aligned it to Dr Timothy Clark's model of psychological safety, the findings were really enlightening. It's also incredibly useful for leaders navigating challenging environments today. So today's Connect aims to give laser focus to the specific things that leaders should be on the watch-out for, and how to differentiate between a nice culture and a psychologically safe one.
It is being said that challenger safety democratizes innovation. That's a pretty powerful capacity to have in a team, and so we explore the practical tips and insights to make it happen.
We've taken a look at making sure that team members are included and that they have the ability to learn. This week's Connect builds on that foundation and gets to the crucial part of being in a team when everyone feels able to make a difference.
Being able to grow and develop skills on the job is both motivating and helps the team to build the collective muscle to meet new challenges. But sometimes the fear of getting it wrong means that it's just not quite as safe as we may think to speak up.
Feeling included is a foundational part of our human D n A. We're actually hardwired to connect, and even our stress response is there to check for danger every few seconds. So creating inclusion in your team as early as possible is a key priority.
psychological safety could sound like a soft topic, and you might imagine that a psychologically safe team is a place where people are just nice, but there's an awful lot more to it than that.
Team leaders are the lifeblood of any organization, but you often don't get enough support that's about to change.