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Topic: The Cost of Drama to Your Projects, Your Company, and You Personally  

Many organizations never fully realize the goals and hoped-for benefits of their organizational transformation efforts often because precious time, skills, and attention are spent on unhealthy workplace drama.  The cost of drama can be measured in dollars - ailing stock prices, lower than expected sales, recruiting fees and in things like reputation, innovation stagnation, change resistance, and disengagement both of your employees and your customers.

Recognizing the cost of drama is a great place to start and learning more about an alternative choice to how we show up and take action and avoid this cost is even better.  

Based on the work of David Emerald, The Power of TED* and 3 Vital Questions™, in a fast paced, highly interactive session we will explore:

• what drama looks like in action and the roles we all can choose to play in it
• where empowerment can be the antidote to unhealthy drama
• ways to recognize your choice when faced with drama
• how to identify if drama is taking a toll on you as a leader, your team, and your organization

Leaving our session, you will be able to: 

• recognize how an over-focus on problems can lead to reactive behaviors that result in unhealthy drama, inconsistent results, and measurable disengagement
• understand how maintaining an outcome focus supports behaviors that result in greater empowerment, change acceptance, and observable employee engagement
• learn helpful self-coaching approaches that enable you to shift yourself out of drama to an empowered place and how to invite others to make the shift with you

The behaviors and actions of employees at all levels of an organization have a direct effect on bottom-line results.  When an organization is not equipped to identify what is at the core of the performance challenges, this further perpetuates issues of increased employee and customer disengagement and can have debilitating results for any business.  Further, the effect on company culture and reputation creates pervasive challenges in the realm of talent acquisition and retention.  

This program addresses head-on the effect of drama and also provides practical tools and approaches that project leaders can immediately take back to their organization to begin supporting the shift in behaviors and ultimately culture.  This can also empower project leaders to link culture to the bottom-line results an organization achieves.

Your Facilitators:

Beth Davis

Beth Davis has a passion and belief that everyone in a company is responsible for HR, people development, and creating company culture. Beth is the founder of The Llewellin Group (www.thellewellingroup.com) and LLEWP (www.llewp.com). She passionately works with people serious about bringing the Agile mindset and principles with the Scrum framework and values forward in their workplaces.  She has a diverse global, professional background and has demonstrated success in applying Agile methods in operating HR and People Development.  She is committed to changing the role HR plays in organizations seeking to embrace the Agile mindset and methods as a mean to promoting thriving workplace cultures that inspire innovation and value creation.

Beth is a certified Scrum@Scale Practitioner, Professional Scrum Master and is a certified facilitator of the iCAgile – Agile Talent certification program.  Beth also holds certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources and is a certified trainer of 3VQ aimed at developing self-coaching and leadership capabilities in everyone she gets to work with.  She has deep experience and belief in Servant Leadership and brings that mindset when working with teams to embrace shared leadership, culture change, and lasting transformation.

John Davis

John Davis has spent the past decade helping Fortune Companies launch product-centered Scrum teams to accelerate business results on their path of Digital Transformation:  BNY Mellon, Alcoa, PNC Bank, Thompson Reuters, FedEx, ThermoFisher, Highmark and various mid-size and tech startups.  He is a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) with Scrum.org and contributed to the original development of the Professional Agile Leadership (PAL-E) certification.

Over the past 5 years as professor with Carnegie Mellon University, John has connected graduate students with deeper understanding of Agile Mindset and Methods, essential for new leaders entering the best innovative companies.  

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