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author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "A two-day Elastic Leadership workshop with Roy Osherove: the three team modes, getting out of survival mode, commitment language, delegation, clearing meetings and influence forces."
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# Elastic Leadership Workshop

with Roy Osherove

# Elastic, Agile and adaptive Leadership Workshop

A two-day, hands-on workshop for managers, architects and technical team leaders who want to make real change happen in their teams.

Duration

Two days, 09:00-16:00

Level

Beginner

Subject

Elastic Leadership

Materials

PDF of all course slides

## The Problem

As managers, architects, and other types of technical team leaders, you usually learn the “what” of how your teams should work. You learn about methodologies, practices and techniques for delivering software.

Often, you leave courses on these topics with a great desire to “change” how things work, but soon discover you are “stuck”. Stuck convincing your team to adopt specific practices. Stuck by not having enough time to learn how to accomplish these practices (“we don’t have time for unit testing”). Stuck with all the people related aspects of leading a team.

## Objective

In this workshop we will learn essential skills and techniques for leading software teams, based on elastic and adaptive leadership principles. You will gain the skills to make real change happen in your team, and to grow the team you want from the team you have.

## Materials

All students get a PDF of all the slides in the course, in downloadable form.

## What you’ll learn

- Learn about the three basic team modes: Survival mode, Learning mode and Self Organization Mode. Learn how to know which mode your team is in right now.
- Learn essential skills for the three modes of leadership you will need for the three phases of the team: Command and control leadership, Coaching and facilitative leadership.
- Learn how to change anything by understanding why people behave the way they do, and understanding the six influence forces that affect our behavior.
- Participate in engaging exercises that will examine your skills at the various leadership modes.

## Agenda

### Agenda - Day 1 (09:00-16:00)

1. The role of the leader, and the leader’s manifesto
2. Introduction to elastic leadership
3. The three team and leadership modes
4. Focusing on Survival mode and how to get out of it
5. Exercises on survival mode
6. Commitment Language
7. Exercises on Commitment Language

### Agenda - Day 2 (09:00-16:00)

1. The Learning Mode, and the coaching leader
2. How we learn
3. How to grow people
4. Delegation as growth tool
5. “What are you going to do about it?”
6. Exercises in delegation
7. Team Homework
8. Clearing Meetings and growth meters
9. Influence Forces
10. Exercises in influence forces
11. Team Dysfunctions


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

### Social

- X: https://x.com/royosherove
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/

### Contact

- Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7

### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/