collaborative leadership workshop
Survey Results
Paul Gibson25/May/09
leadership role ?
Attendee's Role Count
Dev Leader / Manager / Senior / Director 97
Architect / Tech Strategy / STSM / DE / Fellow 36
Unknown 18
PDT / OT / Leader / Program Manager 12
Test / Quality / Coordinator / Manager / Director 10
Leader / Team / Senior / Executive 8
HR Leader / Director / Exec 7
Project / Release Manager 7
Business Leader 3
Services / Manager 3
Support / Manager / Senior 3
Marketing 2
Research 1
Total 207
Workshop Held Your Interest?
Strongly Agree 49% 93Agree 49% 93Disagree 2% 3Strongly Disagree 0% 0Total 100% 189 Positive 98% 186
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Overall Assessments
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Sessions
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Build Trust?
Top / Most Applicable Sessions
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Build Trust?
Most Valuable – Write Ins
22/May/09
Votes Comment
4 Practical things to Apply / New Tools to Use
2 Overall Concepts / Broad Picture / Awareness
2 Thought provoking
2 Time to think about the whole topic
Creating a collaborative environment within a C&C organisation
Not accepting the status Quo and continual process improvements made by the team
Awareness to more often leverage the wisdom of the team
Interaction
Knowing that data from sessions is being collected and used
Tools
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Top / Most Applicable Tools
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Sustainable Competitive advantage
What I need from my Leaders
Area Total Score
Trust 68
Vision & Strategy 34
Clarity 22
Communication 19
Risk Taking 17
Support 16
Focus 15
Collaborate 14
Feedback 13
Decisiveness 12
Investment / Resources / Dollars 12
Empowerment 11
Leadership 11
Up to Boe 4 17/Apr/09
An Open Environment means
Open Environment has… Total
Trust 133
Respect for people 60
Teaming & Collaboration 55
Empowerment / Ownership 51
All Ideas Considered / Respected / Non Judgemental / Listening
48
Communication 43
Integrity / Openness / Honesty 39
Shared goals 17
Safe / Lack of Fear 13
Equality 11
Fun/Laughter 10
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Not working Total
Strategy & Planning & Vision 39
PBC/Appraisal/HR Processes 39
Process 26
Finance / Travel - penny wise pound foolish 21
Compensation 18
Resources 16
Workload 15
Too Many (status) Meetings 14
Requirements (iterations ) 14
Communication 13
Bureaucracy 12
Decision Making 11
Recognition & Reward 10
Globalized Development 10
Stakeholder Involvement 10
Prioritization 10
17/Apr/09
More Effective for teaching Execs12 Address and Give IBM / SWG examples / case studies with metrics / anonymized / Large Teams /
Matrixed Teams / Global Teams / Complex Environments / In hierarchy
5 More on Collaboration / creating a culture of trust / Deeper questions / Responses / Dialogs / Respecting Boundaries / Boundary Cube
4 Problem Statement / Clarity of Objectives / Quantified data on Why / Focus on Results Real to IBM / Link to Strategy & Business Objectives
4 Include Feedback / Data from Lower level classes so they recognize and accept the need to address
2 Linkage to changes needed ongoing inside IBM / Larger Processes / IPD
In some topics, align content closer with IBM (e.g. leadership competencies, PBCs)
More examples in decision making
Report out after day 2 workshop
Less/No Exercises
Focus on behaviours
Shorter Module 1-2 hours total
Less content, more focus on tools. Leave out Business Value sessions if you don't get more days
How to promote cross brand collaboration ( dealing with silo priorities )
They should take this with their teams to hear the real issues
Yes but with our brand decision makers and executive team
Explain implications on Agile s/w development
How to Improve the Workshop – Part 1
17More Real Life / IBM / Practical Examples / Exercises / Case Studies / Challenges faced and addressed / Successes / More tuned to IBM Complexity & Matrix / Global Teams
12 More exercises / More Time for Exercises / Real Exercises / More time for discussions / Conversation / Teamwork
4 Nothing
2 Address the two dimensions of management in IBM. 1) Process / Product Management 2) Personnel Management - Bridge to IPD and other activities
Feel very strongly that content should be synchronized with other leadership content, values and value based practices are foundational
9 Need more time / Drop the exercises / 2 days3 Add more depth/content and not rush through
3 Do this with one product / Brand / Cross functional team at a time to help them to work together
2 Why this is important - link to IBM's other messaging
How to Improve the Workshop – Part 2
Feel very strongly that content should be synchronized with other leadership content, values and value based practices are foundational
Pace a little faster
More breaks
Should be different angles covered for job-role types
More substance, less "buzzword bingo". Less subjects but more time for each.
Less "selling" up front ( first half of the class ) to Europeans
Less time on philosophy. It makes sense. More time on tools / measurements, etc
Put structure to the presentations. The material is hard to follow ("word clouds" )
Better divide in Lecture, Discussion, Exercise
I think all this, especially the method to teach it should better fit the local culture
Perhaps a real project that is prepared and can be used consistently throughout the whole day
How to Improve the Workshop – Specifics
More on selected top modules
More on How to lead up
Explain / Use online version of the collaboration tool
More on risk management
For Architect - more focus on decision making and problem solving
More time on Red Flags to step back
More time on Market Differentiation and Business Value Models
Examples on how these tools and concepts may apply to Agile projects
Vision & Strategy Coherence
More synergy among the participants
What’s Missing ?6 How to integrate these ideas into IBMs rigid culture / Bridge to IBM Reality - IPD, Agile / Multi Site /
Multi-Product / Remote / Global
4 Dealing with Up Line management
3 Collaborative leadership in a matrixed environment
2 Coaching related to collaboration and leadership
2 How to develop a leadership vision and communicate it
2 How to give feedback
2 None
Psychological contracts
More details on Step Up/Step Back and tools for that not clear enough
Maybe something on team building and dealing with issues
Driving change above your responsibility
Case studies for building Collaborative Environment to build trust
More breakout sessions
Recognition to team modules
I don't think decision making and problem solving received enough attention
More information on the behaviours that support trust and communication
Client / Customer / User Orientation
Is this a new IBM leadership model?
Not a module, but in need of a follow-up Mentoring on how to do step back and ask questions
Call to Action
Improve the Handouts12 Additional content for reference / more robust / more detailed / Speaker Notes / more background rather
than the website
8 Provide full hardcopy handouts with all the slides
6 None - Handouts are OK, sharp and concise - will get from the web
4 Make Available Online - and in advance of the workshop
3 Handouts / slides / workshop need to be more coordinated
2 Provide more case studies and examples
2 More detail on charts and slides supporting graphics - answers as well as questions
2 Provide handouts in a notebook to allow better note taking
I would like the handouts to take back and fill out
Different Style - Physical layout - many of the charts appeared to be black and white
Take a real life example and work through the details
2 copies - 1 for team work in class - one to take home
Consider online application/tools and deliver online using Elluminate so can do for a global audience
This slide deck will not meet C162 accessibility requirements
Online for some of the exercises
Some worksheets did not start at the top of the page. Would be better if they did.
Not really used except for notes
I don't need handouts if there is not enough time for the exercise
Connect tables for powering laptops
discovery
Other comments - 111 Great / Good / Engaging / Delightful / Helpful / Useful / Worthwhile class - keep spreading the word on this - I will recommend /
use with my team
4 Need more time or less content - more time for reflections and exercises if real action is the goal
2 Very good to have VP / executive support and presence at the meeting
2 Good, would recommend doing with a team and a real issue - enable with facilitators
2 Should be turned into a regular education class. Would be good to have such a kind of education (at least parts of it) for teams so that they better understand the concepts
2 Provided Great tools to use
Good refresher - trigger for ideas
Very thought provoking. No matter how good you think you are we need to pause, reflect, learn then practice new way of operating
Good opportunity for interaction and sharing ideas
There is hope and light at the end of the tunnel
Question and consensus of participants should be heard better and understood better. We know many of the concepts. More focus on help to appy them other than teaching would help.
The classroom discussions were helpful gaining common pain points & possible improvements
Link to business priorities / PBCs of executives for grounding = not separate class
Needs further executive support
Best if I can have real teams to work on their real problems, as we did - but I am not sure some of the folks outside the core team got as much out of it.
Some are a little too common sense, but tools are always good to have
It is nice to see IBM trying to become more innovative, open collaborative & agile. Keep up the fight
Still trying to figure out how well it can be applied in the current IBM context
discovery
Other comments - 2I learned about the content of the current workshop
To roll out more broadly requires more robust facilitation guide and handouts
It is very Agile development focused = so would need to rethink for different environment
I would like to see more tie-in to agile
Would be better if class had attendees in similar job roles. Eg All 2nd lines. This class was stymied a bit because my manager was in the room.
I think it is good that this data is being used at the highest levels in IBM to fix our company
This is very similar to much of the data taught in adv PM classes. Although these specific tools are not covered.
Get VPs thru class cause they set tone & team culture. During times of crisis they mis-behave and as a result, all of what we have learned today to enable collaborative leadership gets minimized & panic/micromanagement sets in
Need to include cross-discipline people ( ie Marketing, Finance )
Good coverage of topic. Material not covered in IBM's current leadership materials so it was helpful
Ownership and empowering teams messages were most valuable
Some concepts similar to team empowerment of the 90's
Some pieces of this have a lot of the same flavor as the mgmt training in employee empowerment. For experienced leaders it needs to be more clear how it is different
I liked it. Some was a recap xxxx acquired before. Other gave it a new twist
Contain more information, which the speakers add
Helpful Course but not all aspects
I put no for culture of trust because no "tool" action item - seemed more general info
Collaboration and leading collaboration was very simplistic
Some of the theoretical themes are from my viewpoint over simplistic
Not so helpful, but if something will be communicated to the execs I would be happy
I felt thoroughly confused at times. Too much content ( too many buzzwords ) in too little time. That makes it hard to take things away.
Not really useful. Collaboration involves building consensus as well as the subjects presented
Don't bring free candy - I will eat it