Agile management: a question of style

Goals

Identify and adapt your management style to engage your team.

The agile manager knows how to adjust her /his style to effectively communicate; minimize dissatisfaction and stress factors; develop team members’ performances.

Provide optimal resources management, long term teams’ performance, while maintaining satisfaction at work.

Target audience

Anyone managing a team, project manager. Anyone wishing to improve own communication abilities and motivate team members.

Prerequisite

None.

Contents

Different management styles

• The four management styles
• Benefits and downsides

Know how to adapt one’s style

• Personalized management: know how to use the relevant style
• Flexible management: know how to overcome one’s own preference and use all styles to engage the entire team
• The best combination: control range

Interactions management strategies

• Identify/know your interlocutor
  • Personality and observable indicators
• Take up the suitable interaction strategy
  • Interaction and communication channels

Agile manager’s practices

• Effectively communicate
  • Channels and perceptions
• Motivate and generate energy
  • Consider specific needs and set smArt objectives (Achievable!)
• Support, provide recognition and feed-back
  • Consider long-term needs, last the distance, implement a trustful relationship
• Identify, prevent and manage stress related risks
  • Stress sources and consequences
  • Under-stress sequences and behaviors (masks)
  • Mediation strategies