"Want to Empower and Unleash Your People? Then Change How You Make Decisions"

In many organizations, leaders have changed the structure to smaller agile teams and perhaps also tribes (teams of teams). Going beyond the new boundaries of teams, however, delivery of complex larger scale changes often stays slow and ineffective.

When speaking with these leaders, they talk about bureaucratic processes and complex web of dependencies leading to frustratingly ineffective prioritization and delivery. It is everything but agile or continuous delivery. For someone like Andrea, who has seen the "other side", the trigger word prioritization in the client language translates to "we need more effective decision-making".

In this talk, we will look at how we can empower and unleash people by involving them in various, clearly defined decision-making processes. We will look at possible answers to these questions:

Who shall make decisions in our context?
How shall they make decisions?
Why shall they make decisions?
What enabling factors are needed for decision-making to be(come) effective?

About Andrea Darabos:

Andrea is a frequent conference speaker and (co-)author of several books and articles including "Agile People: Your Call to Action for The Future of Work", "Ethics in Agile Coaching (AgileAlliance)" and "De-Risk your Products with Experiments (InfoQ)".

Andrea Darabos advises senior management teams and organisational leaders in using agile and New work leadership approaches to help achieve business adaptability, innovation capacity and continuous product to market delivery. Andrea and her team deliver organizational results through a combination of facilitated learning programmes and targeted consulting/advisory.