Agile Network India | Develeoping Leadership to Enable Leadership by Vinay Baijal

2. Vinay Baijal
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinaybaijal
• 29 years of work experience with global corporations
• Practiced Agile, Lean Six Sigma, Driving Change and
Involved in Global Transformations
• Passionate about Developing people and Delivering
Results. Risk Taker and Love Ambiguity
• Lead the Quality and Business Excellence Teams in
HP, Target, HSBC and now in Siemens
• Trained over 2700 participants in 7 countries and
multiple locations in India

3. Disclaimer
The views in this presentation
and set of slides are my own,
and not necessarily endorsed
by my employer, employees.
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These views are based on
experiences over the last few
years during Transformation
journeys
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4. Developing Leaders to Enable
Transformations
Need to Develop Leaders
Understanding Leadership Traits
How to identify talent ?
Role of leader in grooming Leadership skills

5. Defining
Transformation need

6. Defining transformation need
SPEED COST FASTER
RELEASE CYCLES
ADAPTING MARKET
EXPECTATIONS
CULTURE CHANGE

7. Defining transformation need
SPEED COST FASTER
RELEASE CYCLES
ADAPTING MARKET
EXPECTATIONS
CULTURE CHANGE
Traditional Needs Survival Needs Sustenance Needs
If you have ONLY these Goals, You should revisit if this is enough Long Term Strategy

8. Industry View on Need to
Develop Leaders and Culture

9. Survey headlines on Transformations
Top 3 Challenges to Making Agile Development Successful
• Shifting from Control to Trust Outpaces Every Other Challenge – By More Than 20 Percentage Points
• Culture Change Continues to Be the Top Challenge in Adopting Agile
Gartner Report 2019 : Agile in Enterprise
“84% of Companies Fail At Digital Transformation.”
-- Forbes
“Only 48% reported that most or all of their Agile projects were successful.”
-- stateofagile.com

10. Recurring Transformation Challenges
Org Culture & Leadership at odds with the Change…

11. Understanding Leadership Traits

12. Understanding Leadership Traits
PLANNING TO ENSURE
COMMITMENTS
PROBLEM SOLVING TO
ENSURE DELIVERY
PERFORMANCE
DEVELOPMENT FOR
SUSTENANCE
TALENT
DEVELOPMENT TO
ENSURE GROWTH
COMMUNICATION TO
CONVEY WINS AND
CELEBRATE
DELEGATE TO
ENHANCE OUTCOMES
“People don’t follow Leaders, they follow what they see in their Leaders.”

13. Understanding Leadership Traits
Traditional Expectations in all teams New Additions
PLANNING TO ENSURE
COMMITMENTS
PROBLEM SOLVING TO
ENSURE DELIVERY
PERFORMANCE
DEVELOPMENT FOR
SUSTENANCE
TALENT
DEVELOPMENT TO
ENSURE GROWTH
COMMUNICATION TO
CONVEY WINS AND
CELEBRATE
DELEGATE TO
ENHANCE OUTCOMES
Culture of teams is one key responsibility of Leaders of any organization

15. So during Transformation what is priority ?
Improving self or fixing team delivery issues

16. Middle Management pitfalls ?
TOP MANAGEMENT EXPECTS
DELIVERY
TEAM WANT TIME OF
MANAGEMENT IN CRISIS
CUSTOMERS STARE AT YOU WITH
EXPECTATIONS OF DELIVERY
We have an option:
Identify Management backups before transformation starts
Invest on making them leaders and effective early on

17. How to identify talent ?

18. Identification of Right People
MOST
AVAILABLE
LEADERS
CHOICE
ACQUIRED ALL
CERTIFICATIONS
OPEN TO IDEAS KNACK FOR
EXPERIMENTS
RISK TAKERS

19. Identification of Right People
Ensuring Failure Experimental and coachable
MOST
AVAILABLE
LEADERS
CHOICE
ACQUIRED ALL
CERTIFICATIONS
OPEN TO IDEAS KNACK FOR
EXPERIMENTS
RISK TAKERS

21. Role of leader in grooming
Leadership skills

22. Role of Leaders – People Topics
UNBLOCK
MINDSET ISSUES
BE A GOOD LISTENER PROMOTE
SPEAK-UP CULTURE
CELEBRATE
TEAM ACHIEVEMENTS

24. Role of Leaders – Process Topics
HAVE TIME FOR
REVIEW
SUPPORT IN THE
TRANSITION
ENSURE KEY ROLES
PLAY THEIR ROLES
ALLOW TEAM TO
TAKE RISK
HELP IN
PRIORITIZATION

26. Takeaways to the audience
Experiences and
knowledge gained during
transformations
Complexities of large
corporations in multi-
location set-ups
Why to focus on
leadership development
The impact of doing it in
a much pragmatic
manner