If you follow my writing much, you’ve noticed that I often challenge traditional leaders to lean in to their own personal transformation when it comes to agile. At times, I think I’ve been quite hard on them.
I do this from a perspective of deep respect, and personal experience & empathy, and with the hope of inspiring emergent agile leaders.
CAL class discussion
In my last CAL class, we had a detailed discussion on trust. In that class, it was private, so composed entirely of leaders from a singular organization.
I was emphasizing the need for agile leaders to extend trust (freely give, stretch or reach out, give till it hurts) to their team members as they embarked on a new agile transformation. Another way I tried to express it was for them to—