"Is your team clicking? Or cliquey?" - A Virtual Workshop
Valerie McLean and Martin Bate
Abstract: Ever brought people together who don’t quite ‘click’? Been working in a happy team when divides begin to form? Everyone has deeply ingrained habits, skills, and feelings, as a result of past experience. Put us all together and we’ll attract (and repel) in different ways. Let’s explore why cliques and subgroups form, with some help from Bourdieu’s ‘Forms of Capital’. We’ll look at ways we can neutralise the negatives, bridge the gaps and pull people back together again.
Notes:
Although this is interactive we aren't going to use break-out rooms. So you will not be asked to chat to other participants as part of the session.
You will need something to write with and something to write on to take part in the exercises.
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Valerie is an agile geek, she loves to learn and help others flourish. She gets a buzz from the small things, the little changes that make a positive impact on individuals and teams. Coming from a background in Scrum-mastery and agile ways of working within software teams, Valerie is passionate about enabling organisations to find new and better ways of working to improve their flexibility, reaction to market changes and ultimately create the right solution, for the right people, at the right time. Valerie is an independent agile consultant and is a member and organiser within the Lean Agile community in Glasgow.
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Martin stumbled on agile software delivery methods in 2013 when he was asked to take on a failing waterfall-delivery software project in a large defence company. He decided to apply “common sense” with a degree of urgency. It was a few months later that a new developer joined the project and told him that some of the stuff he was doing was commonly called: “agile”.
Since then he has moved from being a software engineer to a full-time scrum-master and team-coach, working in a couple of banks, a print and digital media startup and, now, the funeral industry, where he is Head of Software Delivery for Product & Innovation in Golden Charter. He misses working with code, but not as much as he loves working with people to help them build better teams.
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