Chapter 5: Leadership Skills Flashcards

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C5 Leadership Skills: Terms and terminology

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General terms

  • Centralized vs Distributed Management and Leadership - Centralized teams report to one leader (such as the PM). Distributed - нескольким (например: project manager and project management team)
  • Five Cs of Communication: Correct grammar and spelling, Concise (лаконичный) and well-crafted, Clear and purposeful, Coherent (последовательный) and logical, Controlled flow of words and ideas
  • Gulf of execution - difference between intention of a user and what the item allows them to do
  • Gulf of evaluation - interpret whether or not the action they performed was successful / mismatch between what the stakeholder wanted and how the team interpreted it

Persons

  • Crosby - a quality theorist who advocated prevention over inspection
  • Leas - created a framework for judging and assessing conflicts on projects
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Management vs Leadership differences

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Emotional Intelligence Quadrant

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Communication Types

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formal / Informal, written/verbal

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Communication Models

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(похоже, только для in-person communications)

При кодировке сообщения принимать во внимание след Communication factors:

  • Nonverbal communications: значительная часть коммуникации. E.g. facial expressions, hand gestures, and body language
  • Verbal. Важные факторы:
    1. слова важны, но могут опоясываться nonverbal факторами
    2. Pitch and tone помогают передавать голосовое сообщение

Не забывать о подтверждении с обеих сторон а-ля “повтори своими словами” и “я не понял, повтори еще раз”

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Communication Methods

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  • Interactive communications
    2+ people in real-time. E.g. Meetings, calls, ad hoc conversations
  • Push communication
    One-way stream of info. E.g. Условно статусные письма, company memos
  • Pull communication
    Информацию можно достать самостоятельно из центрального источника. E.g. Databases, web-portals

————– НЕ УПОМИНАЮТСЯ У РИТЫ ————-

  • Interpersonal communication: Лучший способ. individuals, typically 121
  • Small group communication: 3-6 people
  • Public communication - single speaker to a group
  • Mass communication - minimal connection to the large group
  • Networks and social computing communication - . Many-to-many supporting by social computing (facebook/linkein/instagram)
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Communication Channels Formula

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  • Количество потоков информации между каждым из участников. Не забыть считать себя, всех участников команды, и каждого стейкхолдера (257 sales представителей, например). ВНИМАТЕЛЬНО ЧИТАТЬ ВОПРОС, включен ли ПМ или нет.
  • ( N(N – 1) ) /2 - N - the number of identified stakeholders.
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Motivation Models \ Intrinsic vs Extrinsic

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According to Daniel Pink

Extrinsic (external) - salary etc -limited and short-term motivators. Intrinsic (internal), types:

  • Autonomy - motivation to direct their own life (E.g. flexible work hours, working from home etc.)
  • Mastery - desire to improve, excel, learn and do excellent work
  • Purpose - need for a sense of purpose
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Motivation Models \ X, Y and Z

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Management’s perspective of employees.

  • McGregor X,Y:
    • Theory X - (pessimists) are bad, lazy, and need to be micromanaged.
    • Theory Y - (optimists) are self-directed.
  • Maslow Z: individuals are motivated by self-realization, values. The optimal style - is one one that cultivates insight and meaning (понимание и смысл)
  • Ouchi Z - motivation on well-being of employee and their families - a job for life that takes care of them promotes morale and productivity
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Motivation Models \ Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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A person cannot ascend to the next level until the levels below are fulfilled

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Motivation Models \ McClelland’s Theory of Needs (or Acquired Needs Theory)

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People motivated by one of three needs. Люди должны управляться и мотивироваться в соответствии с тем, в какой категории они.

McClelland used a Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) to determine an individual’s needs.

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Motivation Models \ Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory of Motivation

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2 streams:

  • Hygiene agents are expectations for employment:
    paycheck, insurance, safe working environment. Will not motivate, but their absence will de-motivate.
  • Motivating agents are motivators for employees
    such as responsibility, self-actualization, professional growth, Recognition
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Models of Skill Mastery

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Shu-Ha-Ri Model Of Skill Mastery (Agile)
Move through 3 levels of mastering a new skill or process:
1. Shu - rules are learned and obeyed
2. Ha - rules have been mastered through practice
3. Ri - rules become second nature

Dreyfus Model of Adult Skill Acquisition
Skills are learned through 5 stages:
1. Novice
2. Advanced beginner
3. Competent
4. Proficient
5. Expert

T-Shaped Skills

  • I-shaped - узкий спец
  • T-shaped - широкий (обязательны в agile, но в других тоже желательны, при этом сохраняя свою специализированность)
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Situational Leadership Models

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Situational Leadership II
(Ken Blanchard)
Основывается на двух факторах:
AS you learn a person’s competence and know how to help them to improve their skills,
AND you know their commitment (=confidence and motivation) is solid,
THEN leadership approach evolves from directing to just delegating

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The OSCAR Model
(Whittleworth and Gilbert)
Helps leaders define goals for individual team members

  • Outcome - стратегические цели индивидума
  • Situation - где сейчас
  • Choises/consequences - индивид принимает решение как достигать целей
  • Actions - действия
  • Review - проверяем, что движемся правильно
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Team Development Models

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Tuckman Ladder Model of Team Formation

  • Forming
    team meets and learns about their roles and responsibilities on the project. Little interaction among the project team happens in this stage as the team is learning about the project and project manager.
  • Storming
    There are disagreements as people learn to work together
  • Norming
    Team accepts their works and starts to work, begins to rely on one another, and generally complete their project assignments.
  • Performing
    COLLABORATION. Trust one another, work well together, and issues and problems get resolved quickly and effectively.
  • Adjourning
    the project ends and the team is disbanded

Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Model

  • Step 1: Orientation, or “WHY?”
  • Step 2: Trust building or “WHO?”
  • Step 3: Goal clarification or “WHAT?”
  • Step 4: Commitment or “HOW?”
  • Step 5: Implementation
  • Step 6: High-performance
  • Step 7: Renewal
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Other Leadership Concepts

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  • Negotiation - включать членов команды в decision-making process и показывать что ценим их input
  • Influencing - begins with active listening to different viewpoints. Далее применяем скиллы убеждения и коммуникации to develop mutual trust and agreement within the team
  • Training - тренируем для повышения эффективности
  • Coaching - with the team, and with individual members
  • Recognition and Rewards
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Conflict Management

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PM старается избегать конфликтов через

  • Keeping the team informed about where the project is headed, objectives, content, decisions, changes
  • Clearly assigning work без размытий и пересечений
  • Encouraging collaboration and consensus building
  • Making work assignments interesting and challenging
  • Following good practices (project management and project planning )

Sources of conflict in order of frequency
1. Schedules (unrealistic)
2. Project priorities
3. Resources
4. Technical opinions
5. Administrative procedures
6. Cost
7. Personality

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Conflict Model / Conflict resolution techniques

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Thomas and Kilmann
(учить все синонимы)
Обычно Collaborating лучшее, но бывает Withdrawal
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  • Collaborative / problem solving - конструктивное решение. Win-win
  • Compromising / reconciling - каждый по немногу уступает. lose-lose solution . Второе после collaborative по приоритету
  • Withdrawal/avoiding
    Ingores the issue! Parties retreat or postpone a decision on a problem. Sometimes is necessary
  • Smoothing/accommodating
    Небольшие уступки, подчеркивает agreement rather than differences of opinion. Не ведет к постоянному и готовому решению
  • Forcing / directing - person with authority makes a decision. Должен быть достаточного ранга или экспертизы. decision based on factors not relevant to the problem. Win-lose situation.
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ECO - building vs supporting team

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