Session Title
Self-Care: The KEY to Organizational Agility
Abstract
There are crucial aspects to the agile mindset in order to achieve organizational agility. One of them is the notion of servant leadership. And it’s a wonderful aspiration. Serving your team, your peers, your leaders, and your organization. It’s an ego-less and selfless posture and central to the mindset. But what often can get lost in all of this service is…service to oneself. And placing service to self above the others so that we can serve them all the better. And by serving, then delivering on the innovative, high-value, and high-impact promises of agility in operation.
In this session, we will be deeply exploring the notion of self-care. We’ll look into several aspects of it, exploring the notion as more than simply taking time off or exercising. So, as a group, we’ll create a much richer landscape in what taking care of self looks like by leveraging a self-care canvas I’ve developed. Finally, we’ll take a step back and look at what gets in the way of our self-care. What are the blockers and impediments from ourselves, our teams, and our organizational cultures? And we’ll discuss some ways to overcome those impediments.
Bio
Bob Galen is an Agile Practitioner, Trainer & Coach based in Cary, NC. In this role he helps guide companies and teams in their pragmatic adoption and organizational shift towards agile methods of working. Bob has been doing that since the late 1990s, so he’s deeply experienced. He is the Director of Agile Practice at Zenergy Technologies, a leading business agility transformation company. Bob is also President and Head Coach at RGCG a boutique agile coaching firm.
Bob regularly speaks at international conferences and professional groups on topics related to agile software development, testing, scaling, and organizational leadership. He is a Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC), CAL I trainer, and an active member of the Agile & Scrum Alliances.
He's published three agile-centric books: The Three Pillars of Agile Quality and Testing in 2015, Scrum Product Ownership, 3'rd Edition in 2019, and Agile Reflections in 2012. He's also a prolific writer & blogger (at - www.rgalen.com ) and podcaster (at www.meta-cast.com )