Le Podcast on Emerging Leadership

Let’s draw together the four axes of the BEPS framework. You can draw it in your mind, on a real page, or follow along using the drawing available in the companion blog post.

Starting from the center of the page and going up, the Business axis involves understanding the business and the ecosystem in which the organization operates. It also involves developing a clear vision and understanding the reasons behind the organization's solutions, products, features, and services.

Starting from the center of the page and going down, the Execution axis involves delivering the work and achieving results.

Going back to the center and heading to the right, you have the People axis. The People axis focuses on the management and development of people within the organization. This includes hiring, growing people, managing performance, and, of course, self-improvement.

And finally, starting again from the center of the page and heading to the left, the System axis involves understanding the system formed by people, organization, processes, and tools and removing obstacles to great work.

By considering these four axes, a leader or manager can ensure that they effectively balance their time and focus on achieving success and meeting the organization's and its people's needs.

Today, I have the great pleasure of having Alexis Monville, the creator of the framework, as the guest on the podcast.

Learn more in the companion blog post.

What a joy to listen to Laurence in this episode. She makes reputation and how to manage the reputation of your company so easy to understand.
In the episode, you will learn:

• What is reputation,
• Why it is important for your company,
• What are the reputational risks,
• What are the steps to manage the reputational risks,
• How to build your shield,
• The critical trait of a leader.

Find the transcript and more in the companion post to this episode.

Jared Kleinert is the CEO and Co-Founder of Offsite. He is also the founder of Meeting of the Minds, as well as a TED speaker, 3x award-winning author, and USA Today's "Most Connected Millennial".

Find more about the episode and its transcript in the companion post:
https://alexis.monville.com/en/2022/03/16/meeting-in-person-with-jared-kleinert/

Portia Tung is an Executive & Personal Coach, an Executive Agile Coach, a Play Researcher, and a Keynote Speaker. I had the pleasure to have her on Le Podcast for an amazing episode on the gift of play.

In this episode with Portia, you will learn:

• a lot about the kind of question a coach can ask,
• about The Dream Team Nightmare, a novel where your decisions determine the outcome of the story,
• how to efficiently introduce each other in one-on-ones,
• what a dream job can be,
• the connection between play and creativity,
• Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart M. Brown Jr.
• the 5 Rs of playful leaders,
• and why they can be offered to lead transformations,
• how to introduce play in a serious work environment (spoiler, you can use other words, like simulation for example),
• the XPGame,
• the Deming Red Bead Experiment, and how I played it during a conference,
• about bringing your whole self at work,
• working assumptions on leadership,
• and much more!

Find the transcript and more in the companion blog post.

Check the transcripts and the links to the references in the companion post.

Building Products is what we explore in this episode of Le Podcast on Emerging Leadership. In this episode, learn from Gojko:

• How to build the perfect product,
• How to avoid waste when building software,
• How to waste 75 Million in an agile way (does the currency matters here?),
• Is Impact Mapping simple or easy?
• How to measure anything, a book by Douglas Hubbard
• Four Disciplines of Execution, by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling
• The Art of Business Value, by Mark Schwartz
• How to run control experiment with Microsoft,
• How to collaborate to built products,
• Pair programming, of course!
• How to deal with conflicts,
• How to give a promotion to your number two problem :)
• Software and IT is evolving in an upward going spiral!

Find out the transcript and much more in the companion blog post!

In this episode of Le Podcast on Emerging Leadership, I am pleased to welcome Lucinda Duncalfe, Serial Entrepreneur, Founder, and CEO at AboveBoard, to discuss hiring and diversity.

Find the transcript and links to the references in the companion post.

Jeremy Brown is Chief Product and Technology Officer at Traveldoo, Expedia Group. We discussed leadership and teamwork in this quite emotional episode of Le Podcast.

In this episode, you will learn how Jeremy:

• How Jeremy ended working on his passion,
• What leadership really means to him,
• How he tried to learn with his team in the current crisis they face due to the pandemic,
• How individual incentives and rewards drive the opposite behavior of what you want to bring when building a team,
• How to replace meetings, or instant messaging, with more asynchronous means of collaboration,
• How both of us miss the opportunity of connecting with people offered by travels, conferences... [which made me think of an idea to create those opportunities, I will go back to that in another post]
• What gives or drains his energy, and his tactics to avoid the energy drainers,
• The importance of knowing yourself and knowing the people around you, learning to use personality profiles could be a good first step, using the Clifton Strengths Finder is an example,
• How to provide useful feedback,
• How to manage the relationships around you, and make sure you don't stay stuck with the wrong people.

Check the companion blog post for the transcript and more!

• What is a Community Builder?
• The evolution of Communities
• The Chief of Staff role
• The Chief of Staff Network
• The importance of community in personal and professional development
• How to build a Leadership Team
• Culture-fit, culture-add, and exponential-add through diversity
• Alexis Ohanian as a leader to look-up to in Community building

You can find more references and the transcript in the companion blog post.

In this episode of Le Podcast, I had the pleasure to receive Ally Kouao, Developer Advocate and Solution Architect at Red Hat. We discussed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).

Find the references and more in the companion blog post.

In this new episode of Le Podcast, I had the pleasure to have Chris Foley joining. Chris is a Principal Systems Design Engineer at Red Hat and a sports coach. Together we explored what software teams could learn from sporting teams.

Find all the references of the episode in the companion post.

In this episode of Le Podcast, I was lucky to have Mary Provinciatto, an author passionate about lean and agile, and an Engagement Lead with the Red Hat Open Innovation Labs provides her insights about agile and open innovation.

Mary is the author of Sprint a Sprint, a book about the mistakes and successes in the cultural transformation of an agile team.

We covered a lot of ground during the episode on how to build a bridge between technology and business, the importance of sharing clarity on why we are doing things, and a lot more on how to build a team.

Find all the references in the companion post.

Find all the references in the companion blog post.

Geof Ellingham, a Business agility champion and leadership coach, gave his insights about Agile Coaching in this new episode of Le Podcast.

Find out more about the episode and the references in the companion article.

Find the references and highlights in the accompanying post.

Emilien Macchi is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. He is French and lives in Canada. He contributes to OpenStack nearly since the inception of the open-source project.

I had the pleasure to get Emilien on Le Podcast to discuss how learning and sharing were essential ways of growing his career in Software Engineering.

Find out more about the episode here.

In this episode of Le Podcast, I had the great pleasure to receive Jason McKerr. Jason is the Engineering leader for Management and Automation at Red Hat (great things like Ansible, Insights, Satellite...)

My objective was to have Jason explained his Thirteen Rules of a Team which I discovered during one mentoring session with one member of his team.

The thirteen rules are in the companion post.

In this episode of Le Podcast, I had the pleasure to discuss Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) with Bart den Haak. Bart is a Software Engineer who fell in love with OKRs at a startup more than 10 years ago. He continues to use OKRs since then and he is now advising companies on how to use them.

Find more in the companion post!

In this episode of Le Podcast, I had the pleasure of discussing with Julien Danjou. Julien has more than 20 years of experience as an open source software hacker. Julien wrote two books about Python.

I wanted to ask him about the myth of 10x Engineers and what advice he could have for Engineers who want to grow their skills.

https://alexis.monville.com/en/2020/04/10/do-you-want-10x-engineers/

In this episode of Le Podcast, John Poelstra and I had a conversation about the book The Anatomy of Peace.

John recommended the book in our previous conversation on how (not) to provide feedback. I read it twice and fell in love with it. John mentioned that in Changing Your Team From The Inside, I said that Change starts with you, it seems The Anatomy of Peace pushes it further: change starts with who you are.

Click here for more about this episode!

Psychological Safety is the term coined by Amy Edmondson, the author of The Fearless Organization.

I already talked about Psychological Safety, when I presented the work of Google on the project Aristotle, and how it was a very good conversation starter for my team.

Tell me what you think!

John Poelstra, Michael Doyle and I talk about how to make distributed teams efficient. We had that conversation while we were spread over 15 timezones: John in Portland, Oregon, Michael in Brisbane, Australia, and me in Boston, Massachusetts.

The conversation is republished from the John's show.

Let me know what you think!

Happy to connect to share remote facilitation approaches!

I had the opportunity to have a great conversation about the book, Changing Your Team From The Inside, on John Poelstra's show.

John proposed the idea to cross-publish our conversation on our respective podcasts. In order to do that, I had to re-listen to the conversation and I really enjoyed it.

Yes, of course, there is some Ego involved in that, and this is one of the topics we covered in the podcast, among the other aspects of what makes a team great and how to get your team to be a great one!

Give it a try! And let us know what you think!

In this episode of Le Podcast, I had the great pleasure to receive Michael DeLanzo to discuss the importance of coming to terms with terms. Michael and I met at a Boston Spin event when I gave a talk: The Change Starts Here. You can find more about speaking engagement here.

More details in this post.

In this episode of Le Podcast, I had the great pleasure of having John Poelstra to discuss a very personal experience about providing feedback.

Mode details in this post.

In this episode, I had the great pleasure of having Frank Jansen join Le Podcast to discuss how to deal with stars. We started the discussion referencing how Kim Scott defines Rock Stars and Super Stars in her book: Radical Candor. Rock stars are a source of stability for the team, people very talented, and they will keep doing it for years. Superstars are a source of growth for the team; they want to change everything; they are looking to grow at their next level.

More on the blog!

In today's episode, Jérôme Bourgeon and I will explore the question of cultural differences and their influence on the adoption of agile.

Spoiler, we don't think that cultural differences are the real problem.

Jérôme is an agile coach with Zenika. He is based in Singapore.

Together we discussed:

• build trust take a different amount of time
• culture of companymatters more than countries (Jérôme used the model proposed by Frederic Laloux in his book Reinventing Organizations)
• beliefs of people matter more than anything else
• the power of appreciative inquiry and how to use it
• accepting differences that are important for people

I am eager to hear your feedback, so drop me a note at alexis@monville.com, on Twitter or LinkedIn. You can also use those channels to propose the next question you want Le Podcast to answer. We can even record the answer together!

And more specifically, how to create great goals using the OKRs approach. OKRs stands for Objectives and Key Results.

In the episode, I used a simple example and the Impact Mapping approach, to walk you through the process of creating great OKRs.

I am eager to hear your feedback, so drop me a note at alexis@monville.com, on Twitter or LinkedIn. You can also use those channels to propose the next question you want Le Podcast to answer. We can even record the answer together!

In today's episode, we celebrated with Michael Reid, the narrator, the availability of the audiobook edition of Changing Your Team From The Inside.

Among other topics, we discussed the importance of:

• making the work visible,
• invest time to play learning games,
• buidling lasting relationship,
• and clarify the goals of the team.

We concluded on the note that the book is for all practitioner and not only for managers, and that the book really equips you to make positive change in the team, from the inside.