The Leadership Game
Add to calendarAbstract What do you at expect from a leader? • That he goes away? • That she takes you strong and firmly by the hand? • That he enforces the team spirit?
In this three-hour game, together with you, we try to find an answer to these questions. By experiencing this situation on our playground, we hope to give you a better insight in: • The differences in result. • Personal taste • Group dynamic effects
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Introduction 20 min First round: strong visionary leaders 30 min The team gets the order to make a project. The leaders directs strongly and takes all the decisions. Feedback: 10 min second round: without a leader 20 min In this assignment the (same) group has to build another project, but no leader is appointed. The organizers make sure no-one will take leadership. Feedback: 10 min Third round: process leaders 30 min Again a (detailed) project has to be made. This time we have a leader who will guide the process, not the product. The leader will get a cheat sheet with tips to look for. The organizers help him, when he would go for the product. Feedback: 10 min General feedback: 40 min. First we ask the leaders to share their experiences. After that we ask the observers to tell us what they have seen. And finally the other participants can take the word. At the end we finish with a little bit of theory about the exercises.
- This session lets you see what influence the leaderships style has on your team. It lets you reflect on the leadership style you wish to use or/and wants to get.
- We selected these 3 kinds of leaderships because these are the most extreme cases. A real situational leader would use the 2 leadership styles in different situations. By playing it so extremely it becomes a lot clearer for the participants.
- History
- This game was played at multiple agile conferences around the world since 2004.
- XP Day Benelux (2005), Xp Day France (2006, 2007, 2008), Essap (2005), Agile 2008, Agile 2009, Agile Tour Bordeaux (2009)
- Not only the “leaders” learned a lot but also the other players learned alot about “their preferred way of being led” and how they look at a leader. Many participants also told us they learned a lot from being observer.
