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How to Lead Self-Managed Teams - Project Management Training
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today we're talking about how to lead
self-managed teams
well self-managed teams or self-directed
teams have been around for a very long
time but we're seeing them more
prevalently these days because they're
driven by more collaboration and more
collaboration tools and more agile teams
and agile methodologies so it allows for
more innovative ways of working together
it increases more autonomy with the
teams it also fosters innovative
practices moreso than the traditional
top-down structure so here's some of the
common questions that people have when
they go to lead so how do you lead them
if you're the head of the organization
that also what role do managers an
executive play in this set up and how do
you measure their success so one thing
to avoid is to try to manage or impose
external processes on a self-directed or
self-managed team is really
self-defeating because they are
self-managed they do not they do work in
an organization so they still have to
comply with the organization and those
organizational structures so how to lead
a self-managed team number one use
communication and feedback to foster
buy-in the more you communicate and
collaborate and ask therefore ask them
for their opinions and let them
contribute then the more they buy-in and
today they're better software tools that
allow for communication and real-time
collaboration number two have the team
define their metrics of success if they
define their metrics then there tend to
be more accountable for their success
and again today with the tools they can
set those up and have insights to those
in a real-time basis number three have
them present their outcomes regularly
promoting feedback loops with other
teams they have to interact with and
track some metrics of accountability and
number four leverage their successes for
the good of the business so here are
some things to watch for number one
initiatives that don't align with the
corporate strategy so if you do find the
team is working on those just work with
them to reprioritize so they're working
on the ones that do number two lack of
accountability from the entire team so
if you have an entire team that for some
reason doesn't feel accountable for
their work products or things that
they've committed to I would look a
little deeper because maybe there's a
lack of clarity around the roles and
responsibilities of who is accountable
number three a culture of no results so
if you're looking at a culture that's
pretty deep that's the behaviors and
characteristics of that group so either
you can work with them or bring someone
in or they can work together to reset
the culture of that group because if you
do have one that is yielding no results
those typically get disband number four
immunity from the rest of the corporate
structure organization because many of
these self-managed teams are part of
special projects then they may be
working in a different building they may
be working virtually so this is just
something to keep an eye on but these
are some of the common questions these
are some ways to lead and then these are
some things to watch for so if you need
a tool that can help you lead your
self-managed teams then sign up for our
software now at projectmanager.com
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