Thursday, May 17: Heidi Helfand
Dynamic Reteaming at Fast-Growing Companies
Team change is inevitable, especially when your company is hiring like crazy and doubling in size. Your teams might grow and split - like mitosis. 20 people might arrive in one day. What feels like tectonic shifts happen as you morph structurally to refocus people and work. How can we bring a humanistic stance to this dynamic reteaming? How can the people be empowered to have ownership over their team change? How can we integrate the new people in without losing our sense of “culture?" We will explore questions like these and will discover practical strategies to master dynamic reteaming.
Friday, May 18: Mike Rother
Toyota Kata: It May Be Habit Forming
Katas are simple practice routines that help you establish a baseline of fundamental skills, which you can then build on. Toyota Kata is about individuals, teams, and even entire organizations practicing scientific thinking skills, to enable them to achieve all sorts of challenging goals.
One of the most valuable skills you can have is the ability to adapt. Scientific thinking is exactly that. The practice routines of the Improvement Kata and Coaching Kata help make you better at improving, adapting, innovating, and achieving whatever you set out to do. Integrated into your normal daily routine, Toyota Kata turns scientific thinking into a practical skill anyone can learn.
