The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team (by Frederik Wouters)
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The document discusses the importance of aspiring ambitions to guide team dynamics and goal setting within an organization. It addresses the challenges teams face, such as fear of failure and the need for effective communication, while emphasizing the role of leadership in fostering a supportive culture. Furthermore, it highlights the significance of engaging teams in participative innovation processes to promote higher achievements.
The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team (by Frederik Wouters)
- 1. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 1 Template presentation Innovation Day 2016CONFIDENTIAL THE NEED FOR ASPIRING AMBITIONS TO GUIDE YOUR TEAM WHEN TARGETS ARE MOVING Frederik Wouters Director Business Development frederik.wouters@verhaert.com TRACK 4: HUMAN TOUCH, YOUR TEAM & THE CUSTOMER
- 2. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 2 CONFIDENTIAL 2 I AM PASSIONATE ABOUT TECHNOLOGY IN GENERAL AND SPECIFICALLY ACHIEVING TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES WITHIN OUR PROJECTS AT VERHAERT
- 3. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 3 New problem or challenge Other team members Uncertainty & fear Error/bad performance New role/other contribution
- 4. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 4 Fear of • Criticism • Rejection • Failure • Disapproval • … Fear to • Admitting errors • Admitting weakness • Admit disagreement • Talk to people in authority • Speak up in a meeting • Take a stand • …
- 5. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 5 Repeat what we are good at: • Pleasure • Confidence • Certainty • … So how to : - Do new stuff - Take risk or - Change behaviour
- 6. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 6 TEAM OR GROUP? 1. Availability 2. Technical Skills Soft skills ?
- 7. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 7 HOW IS THE CROWD SEEING IT ?
- 8. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 9 Ensuring that teams with new members have a fast start and are capable to achieve the ambitious goals : 1. What are the first topics at project starts the team members need to perform? ………………………………. 2. Write down the first word when thinking about ‘ambitious goal setting’? ………………………………. 3. Write down the first word when you think about aptitude & attitudes in a team? ………………………………. 4. What culture does a team need? ………………………………. QUIZ
- 9. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 10
- 10. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 11 Who experienced team interactions with difficult discussions and ‘alignment’ was sometimes not possible ?
- 11. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 12 how ?
- 12. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 13 Traditional goal setting Agile goal setting Plan based Vision based AGILITY INNOVATION
- 13. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 14 A CATALYST FOR TEAM SPIRIT creating meaning and ambition. BHAG - Jim Collins
- 14. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 15 “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” Michelangelo
- 15. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 16 Plan based versus vision based Also creativity will motivate people/teams to reach higher. When discovering is a participative journey WHY
- 16. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 17 CHANGE MASTERS ? ‘Change masters’ manage to learn with changes during the project. They aim high and manage not by fixed goals. RICE
- 17. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 18 TEAM OR GROUP?
- 18. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 19 PEOPLE & ROLES COMMON GOALS VALUES RULES & ACTIVITIES NEEDS & EXPECTATIONS PERSONAL GOALS WEAKNESSES & RISKSSTRENGTHS & ASSETS PURPOSE COHESION & DIVERSITY
- 19. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 21 GOAL: we all feel like we can say anything to each other
- 20. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 22 WHAT CAN LEADERSHIP DO? ASPIRE & INSPIRE
- 21. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 23 WHAT CAN LEADERSHIP DO - GOAL SETTING Creating the Now Low team/ High leader Contribution split Self monitoring & assessment Growing personal skills Participative Management Making success appealing / wanted / reachable Deliberate learning & strategies Creating the Future High team /Low leader
- 22. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 24 WHAT CAN LEADERSHIP DO - TEAM INTERACTIONS & TRUST How to ensure an open & respectful dialogue to constructively create & exchange ideas.
- 23. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 25 WHAT CAN LEADERSHIP DO - TEAM INTERACTIONS & TRUST Team spirit Creative interaction models Addressing unspoken issues Constructive debate environment Feedback without resentment Sharing fail modes Create equality
- 24. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 26 WHAT IS THE RIGHT TEAM CULTURE? Safe environment Allow failure Pro-actively look for failures Share failures Accept the ‘right’ failure Adaptability & resilience Learning process for risk taking Collaborate Peer pressure Set the pace Go the extra mile Fail fast Involve the team Personal growth Explorative Learn to help themselves Pro-actively look for learnings Share learnings ‘Challenge’ each other Consciously learning Innovation in Learning
- 25. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 27 THE SWEET SPOT CONFIDENTIAL 27
- 26. 4.2 The need for aspiring ambitions to guide your team CONFIDENTIAL 28 Innovation Day is an initiative of Masters in Innovation, the umbrella brand of the Verhaert Group which aims to connect, train and accelerate professional innovators. Kruibeke Belgium Hogenakkerhoekstraat 21 B-9150 Kruibeke T +32 3 250 19 00 E info@verhaert.com www.verhaert.com Nivelles Belgium Noordwijk Netherlands Av. Robert Schuman 102 B-1400 Nivelles T +32 67 47 57 10 E info@lambda-x.com www.lambda-x.com Kapteynstraat 1 2201 BB Noordwijk T +31 71 760 05 50 E info@verhaert.com connect.verhaert.com INDUSTRY TECHXFER MEDICAL AEROSPACE TECHXFER FMCGCONNECT TECHXFER FMCGCONNECT MEDICAL Aveiro Portugal Av. Dr. Lourenço Peixinho 96D 4o 3800-159 Aveiro T +351 234 604 088 E info@load-interactive.com www.load-interactive.com CONNECT Gentbrugge Belgium Bruiloftstraat 55-57 B-9050 Gentbrugge T +32 9 330 27 90 E info@moebiusdesign.be www.moebiusdesign.com ON SITE CONSULTANCY