International Institute for Learning

APRIL 5, 2023

By Mike Griffiths Welcome to part four, the last installment of this series introducing basic leadership ideas that any project manager or Scrum master can employ. Be sure to see articles one , two , and three , which cover topics including how leadership differs from management, servant leadership, and team motivation.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Jo Ann Sweeney Why should project teams invest resources in communication activities is a question I’m often asked – both from people who are not convinced of the value, and also from those looking for the words to use with their leadership team. This helps enormously in change teams that don’t have huge amounts of time and energy.

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Scrum.org

JUNE 29, 2019

A number of people inside and outside Scrum.org collaborated with me in 2018 and early 2019, to talk about 21st-century executive leadership. The conversations strongly influenced what the reader will see in the coming posts in this blog series. 21st-century executive leadership, what to stop doing .

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Scrum.org

MAY 10, 2022

This is where the Scrum Master’s leadership can help. . Professional Scrum revolves around the accountabilities, events, and artifacts of Scrum, and recognizes that its foundation is built on values and principles of people who work together to optimize value, build discipline, and influence culture. This critical work is not easy.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This behaviorbehaviour can significantly affect team dynamics and chips away at our ability to influence others positively. . Our energy is contagious. From knowing and controlling to influence and impact. It poses six questions to ask yourself to optimize your influence and impact on your team. #1 Paralysis .

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Teamweek

JULY 12, 2023

To help you assess leadership candidates more effectively, identify their strengths, and ensure you choose the right one to take your organization to new heights, let’s explore 10 tips to evaluate leadership skills when hiring. Great leaders can have different leadership styles. What are leadership skills?

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 10, 2019

It starts with Local Leadership. All the companies we visited had one important common ingredient: Local leadership. They often called it 'servant leadership': use the brainpower and energy of the people to find solutions for the challenges at hand. They really implementing dual- or multi-leadership in the Tribes.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 16, 2022

Project managers establish and foster workplace behavior expectations through their own leadership values and actions. Do You Choose a “Bullying” Leadership Style? Project managers who choose a bullying leadership style get results predominantly through dominance, fear and negative reinforcement. Paul Pelletier.

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Project Risk Coach

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Third, some PMO managers lack authority and relational influence in the organization. For instance, strategic risk management can help you invest your precious time, money, resources and energy where it counts most. How will the PMO engage with the senior leaders? Second, the PMO fails to ask for feedback and incrementally evolve.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Ultimately, as Scrum Masters, we have the best shot at influencing others and achieving our goals when we show up: Connected to our purpose. Leadership often focuses on the wrong measures and isn’t aligned around customer outcome-based goals. That doesn’t sound like the path to influential leadership, does it? Open and curious.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Three key responsibilities arise from this new type of leadership: A leader’s primary role is to deliver clear, aligned and inspiring direction. Consider slogans such as ‘effortless from door to door’ for a railway company, or ‘carbon neutral energy’ for an energy company. Watch ‘ Agile Leadership Nutshell ’.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The energy, collaboration, health, and so on. Being a good scrum master means learning how to influence teams, without authority, to help them improve as needed. Again,through influence without authority. Find a way to support and encourage scrum masters in effecting positive change and increasing their circle of influence. .

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Velociteach

APRIL 27, 2023

If it’s time for you to conduct an honest assessment of your leadership style to connect better with your teams and understand your stakeholders more effectively, take a listen to hear how to connect, then lead. Let’s jump into talking leadership and talking communication. Those are two very different leadership terms.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 6, 2024

To truly capitalise on the potential of innovation, we must explore deeply within our teams, expand our perspectives across entire organisations, and even look beyond, to outside influences. Executives & Senior Leadership In many organisations executives and senior leadership serve as catalysts for creativity.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 25, 2022

A new project manager, like any other, needs to focus their energies on these four things, in that order. This means giving leadership and support, guiding and developing them, and allocating work wisely. So engage with them positively so you can learn from them, keep them informed and, when necessary, influence them gently.

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Scrum.org

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

If executive leadership moves too slowly or thwarts advancements, supporters of agility on the ground begin to lose hope and give up. . . leadership, ?engagement, energy, and ?fun. Leadership : we mean ?self-awareness, fixing-problems-beyond-influence-of-teams, ?enabling It feels like ?humanity, humanity, ?authenticity,

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 17, 2018

servant leadership or the “care and feeding” of others). It might be demotivating, and you might decide this isn’t worth your full focus, energy, and creativity. This is part of a series of posts about servant leadership to influence change and inspire greatness. Yeah, it feels kind of crappy.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 19, 2021

The dotted lines represent the influence of external drivers on the success factor, while the arrows display the relations among success factors. There are broadly three groups that influence successful Agile transformations; Developers, Product Owners & Scrum Masters, and top managers. The H[1–5] tags represent the hypotheses.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2023

They had multiple trainings and coaches come over to help, both for the teams, the leadership, and their stakeholders. It’s also low energy. It’s also high energy. Elaboration As it turned out, when they started using Scrum they had tried to engage frequently on intended outcomes and value measures.

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PM Basics

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The goal is to ensure that the stakeholders influence your project positively. They also play a part in influencing the direction and outcome of it in some way. Stakeholder engagement is considered one of the main parts of project management and greatly influences the success of your projects and work. Analyze stakeholders.

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Henny Portman

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Stakeholder engagement is the systematic identification, analysis, planning and implementation of actions designed to influence stakeholders. Be aware that stakeholder influence, interest and power are transitory and only as relevant as the day it was produced and that you must keep your analysis confidential.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Using options like alternative energy and recycled materials can cut costs. No matter what level you may be at or how many people you can influence, there is something you can do. The only issue is that recycling takes energy, furthering the carbon footprint of each piece of paper. How to Be Eco-Friendly at Work.

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The IIL Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2023

They] are obsessed with the pressure of new customer acquisition and meeting macro KPIs that represent little influence on customer behavior. Engagement addresses passion, mood (energy), and healthy relationships—therefore driving speeds of interaction, quality of collaboration, and organizational resilience. Hierarchy is dead.

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LiquidPlanner

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Servant Leadership. Leaving it to fester drains energy. Tackling your essential tasks first gives you energy and momentum for the rest of the day. Servant Leadership. Servant Leadership has been an incredibly useful management tool for me. . Why is Servant Leadership in a productivity blog post? .

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 26, 2021

A Master’s degree in project management will give you a deep insight into the theory and technical skills required to work in a strategic project leadership role. An MBA is a Master of Business Administration degree: it will give you a rounded view of what it takes to operate in a general leadership role. Your next steps.

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Bridge the Gap Consulting

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

How does this story relate to Authority vs. Influence? Johnny But when Johnny caught the ball bare handed to prove a point, the pitcher got the message and changed his approach for the duration of the game (influence). That That type of influence is what made Johnny an amazing player. Influence without authority is not easy! Here

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JANUARY 24, 2022

Brush up on your virtual leadership skills. Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams. Safeguarding our emotional and mental health and that of our teams has to be up there as a trend for the forward-thinking leadership team. What you can do.

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Inloox

AUGUST 13, 2018

Invest in actively engaged executive sponsors as they will use their influence within an organization to actively overcome challenges by communicating the project’s alignment to strategy, removing roadblocks, and driving organizational change. Sustainable development, climate change and renewable energy. Customer expectations of speed.

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Scrum.org

MAY 12, 2019

I am influencing the CxOs at the moment. Some people in Senior Management are still getting used to agile leadership. The way to influence change in a complex system is by influencing the interaction amongst people. By observing, we will gain data to best influence the system through human interaction. Baby steps.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 6, 2022

Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. For example, on one project, I had the CFO steering group, and attendees were all SLT (senior leadership team members). Is yours helping or just taking up energy and space?

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Productivity Land

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The realm of leadership is complex and multifaceted, pivotal to the success of any managerial role. Intriguingly, research suggests that only 10% of the population are natural leaders, with an additional 20% exhibiting foundational managerial talents that, with cultivation, can blossom into high-quality leadership.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 8, 2021

of a person) positive in attitude and full of energy and new ideas. And if you subscribe to the natural alignment of feminine leadership qualities with what we seek to enable in agile and the future of work, then you must agree women agilists are uniquely positioned to dynamically change the world and make it a better place.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 7, 2021

On the other end of the spectrum, there are people who are full of energy but turn into bullies when trying to get others to do new things and adopt new ideas. The desired behaviors qualities are high energy, goal-oriented, outcome-focused, thick skin, and resilience. Not ideal for the team or for the client.

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ActiveCollab

JULY 6, 2017

You have 15 minutes at your disposal and want to know the basics of all leadership theories? Leadership theories are categorized by aspect which is believed to define the leader: Great Man Theory. Michigan Leadership Studies. Ohio University Leadership Studies (Leadership Grid). This is THE post for you!

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The IIL Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I realized that there could have been a delay due to Covid-19 disruption and I had to write a reminder letter to PMI emphasizing the dramatic influence of the application review delay on my exam preparation schedule. I didn’t hear from PMI for two and a half months. Two days after the reminder I received my approval.

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Planio

APRIL 10, 2023

But it’s unfair to put all of the blame on outside influence. High-performing teams rely on momentum and positive energy to continually deliver great results. There are many cultural reasons that hustle culture has come to exist — for example, influencers on social media or feeling pressured to live beyond your means.

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Epicflow Blog

JULY 29, 2019

Up until now, around 71% of all work in such industries as aviation, financial services, automotive, and energy utilities has been performed by humans. Leadership and Social Influence. Today, leading projects throws new challenges at project managers: leading and influencing the group not only professionally but also socially.

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