Quick facts
- Duration 1-2 days
- Class size: 10-25
- Location: On site
- Follow-up Coaching: Available on request
- Award-winning book included: Leading Geeks
Who should attend?
- Project managers
- Technical leads
- Business sponsors
- Operations managers
- Relationship managers
- Technical executives
- Product managers
Based on the critical insight that “Geeks are different”, this course teaches both technical and non-technical leaders the understanding and skills necessary to unlock the value of technology groups.
Without mastering the skills taught in this course, a leader risks squandering the company’s investment in technology teams by committing easily avoidable leadership blunders.
You will learn:
- How to adapt your leadership style to the idiosyncrasies of geek culture
- How to create a safe environment to unleash geek creativity
- How to manage ambiguity to increase geek productivity
- How to emphasize meaning and interdependence to foster geek motivation
- How to protect and integrate geek teams into the wider organization
Agenda
1-2 hour session combining presentation, discussion and experiential exercises
- Dispelling the myths of leadership
- How geeks are different
- Geeks in groups
- Power is useless
- External representation of geek teams
- Savvy facilitation of tasks and goals
- The art of motivating geeks
- Managing the unknown – the most important and least understood aspect of geek leadership
