This week, Dan Neumann is joined by Justin Thatil and Mariano Oliveti, both AgileThought colleagues. They are addressing today a very important topic, which is how to successfully address individual behaviors that might threaten your team’s performance.
In this episode, they dive deep into three efficiency killers: procrastination, avoidance, and delay, while providing strategies and ways to treat these individual behaviors to effectively achieve teams’ goals and objectives.
Key Takeaways
- When individual behaviors impact team delivery
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- You can’t solve individual behaviors from a team’s perspective.
- Disruptive individual behaviors can be procrastination, avoidance, and delay.
- Build to perfection can contribute to delays in delivery.
- How do you spot efficiency killers?
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- A procrastinator might be someone who is very busy but not with meaningful tasks that will help to achieve the sprint goal.
- Does someone have difficulties sticking to a productivity system?
- The daily Scrum is a useful tool to spot disruptive behaviors.
- Make sure there is safety within the team to call on someone who is struggling.
- Which are the strategies to treat efficiency threateners?
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- Identify the root cause.
- If your to-do list is too long, you can split it into the specific goals you want to accomplish in a day.
- Prioritization is key! Ask yourself: Is this something I need to do right away? Can it be automated?
- Do the hardest thing first.
- What happens when it is not clear what needs to be done or what the outcome is?
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- Not starting to work until you have an exact idea of what needs to get done could be a trigger for procrastination.
- There are intermediate steps too; you do not have to look at the entire journey at once.
- How to seek continuous improvement?
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- True conversations have to take place, especially when there is a failure in delivery.
- Inspect the process of the work on a continuous basis.
- Who can solve the problems that are being encountered? Assign responsibilities.
- Tackle the problems first.
- The whole team has to work together.
Mentioned in this Episode:
Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success, by Rory Vaden
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“Agile Coaching vs. Professional Coaching”
“Are Agile Coaches Really Coaches?”
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