The Commitment Language for Team Leaders

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I think at some point, it's really more about bottlenecks. My job is always to remove myself as a bottleneck. As a leader of developers, maybe I'm the bottleneck for some decision making. But if I'm a leader of team leads, then what is my role? How do I measure? The answer again to me is what is the thing that they need me for? Do they needs me for specific planning purposes? Because I see something farther into the future and want to help them there. That's my bottleneck theory. I want to removed myself as bottleneck. No one can hire, doesn't make any sense. You should be able to hire people.

“As a team leader, you will become more successful and valuable if you are no longer a bottleneck for the people who are working with you and under you."

Roy Osherove is the author of “Elastic Leadership” and “The Art of Unit Testing”. In this episode, we discussed leadership insights from “Elastic Leadership”. Roy first shared how he came up with the concept and described what elastic leadership is. He explained the different leadership styles based on the 3 team phases (survival mode, learning mode, and self-organizing mode) and advised how leaders can adapt and transition their leadership style from one phase to the other to lead effectively. Roy also shared about the Team Leader manifesto and the Line Manager manifesto to provide guidance on how leaders can grow their teams towards self-organization and self-sufficiency.

Listen out for:

Career Journey - [00:06:45]
Writing “Elastic Leadership” - [00:11:31]
Team Leader Manifesto - [00:17:57]
There Are No Experts - [00:23:23]
Survival Mode - [00:30:49]
Slack Time - [00:37:52]
Self-Organizing Mode - [00:39:21]
Learning Mode - [00:41:18]
Line Manager Manifesto - [00:45:47]
3 Tech Lead Wisdom - [00:48:13]

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Roy Osherove’s Bio
Roy Osherove is the organizer of the CD/XP Israel meetup group. He’s the author of “Art of Unit Testing”, “Elastic Leadership” and the upcoming “Co-Ops: Pipeline Driven Organizations”. He has been working in the software industry for over 20 years in most types of technical & testing roles, and these days is working as a freelance consultant & trainer on-site for various companies across the world.

Follow Roy:

Twitter – @RoyOsherove
LinkedIn – https://linkedin.com/in/osherove/
Website – https://osherove.com/
5 Whys – https://5whys.com/

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