Embodiment
Frameworks are established, agility at team level works, but bottom-up not really. Managers are still stuck in command and control. Qualified personnel are leaving the company... Sounds familiar? This is where embodying agile values comes in.
Emotional Intelligence (EI) skills are what make the difference in leadership and team success. The State of Agile Report consistently highlights EI skills as key factors for successful implementation and adaptation of agile projects. In addition, Capgemini's report on Emotional intelligence highlights that "Organizations can achieve returns up to four times higher by investing in EI skills" and one of the main outcomes is "openness to change".
EI skills have twice the impact on performance compared to IQ
and the vast majority of skills described as positive or characerizing in outstanding leaders related to EI. Investment in EI pays off very quickly; through more productivity and better decisions.
Fostering psychological safety is the key factor for successful teams. In 2012, Google asked the question, why do teams succeed while others in the company fail? Read the full story here.
But to cut the story short, after the team conducting the study couldn't find a clue, they came across Amy Edmondson's work on psychological safety. And suddenly everything fell into place.
Through a brief training followed by effective process support of your teams and leadership, your teams become highly effective. Through this effective process – underlying project, team, and business barriers are sustainably removed.
voices
"Sy has a clear idea of what he wants to convey and a great flexibility to engage with the participants. He is totally enthusiastic and can pass on this enthusiasm. Focused and alert and takes the exercises to heart. I was well taken care of and guided through the program by him."
Program Participant
"Thank you Sy for your competent, engaged, creative, sensitive and overall super valuable support in the Deutsche Telekoms Innovation program HomeOS. Together with you we have been able to find out and prioritize current pain points and initiate first steps to address them. Thank you for your great questions, deep listening, coaching and facilitation in the last months. I’m confident that your contribution has enhanced EI skills within our team and will result in superior team performance."
Tatjana Wittig
Executive product lead
Deutsche Telekom AG
"Sy I wanted to thank you again for the structured and exciting collaboration during the Search Inside Yourself 2-Day Program. I was - like the other participants - very enthusiastic about your inspiring manner and the exciting, as well as instructive topics of the workshop. Emotional intelligence in combination with leadership skills is becoming more and more important in today's world and I am glad to have had you as a trainer. I am looking forward to many more successful collaborations.
Benjamin Wohnhas
Enterprise Agile Coach, DevOps, Lean Change Agent
BMW
"Sy was great in general. What I enjoyed a lot, was his voice in the mindfulness exercises and the ability to guide and motivate the team to open-up and share their experiences."
Program Participant
"The right amount of self-irony. Livening up the theory with witty delivery."
Program Participant
