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Lead without Blame: Building Resilient Learning Teams

A detailed framework for leaders to move past outdated workplace blame and shame strategies to cultivate resilient teams capable of facing adversity and setbacks confidently.

Workplace finger-pointing stifles creativity, reduces productivity, and limits psychological safety. Although no one sets out to be judgmental, learning new habits is hard. Two experienced leadership and agilists coaches share a road-tested leadership model that continuously embraces humility and failure as part of the growth process to deliver results.

By facilitating blame-free retrospective meetings, leaders chart a productive path forward. They amplify three essential motivators of purpose, autonomy, and co-intelligence within their team. Layered on with four resilience factors: inclusive collaboration, transparent power dynamics, collaborative learning, and embracing conflict. After applying these strategies, learning leaders will help their teams and themselves become more resilient and better equipped to handle any unexpected and challenging tasks that come their way.

About the Author(s)
Diana Larsen

A visionary pragmatist and co-founder of the Agile Fluency Project, Diana Larsen co-authored, “The Agile Fluency Model: A Brief Guide to Success with Agile.” She is the author of “Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great”, “Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams”, and “Five Rules for Accelerated Learning”. For more than 20 years she has worked with leaders to design work systems, improve project performance, and support leadership and enterprise agility. An active speaker and contributor to her professional community, Diana has contributed in leadership roles to the Agile Alliance, the Organization Design Forum, and the Agile Open Initiative.

Tricia Broderick

Tricia Broderick is a leadership and organizational advisor. Tricia has more than twenty years of experience in the software development industry. Her transformational leadership, at all levels of an organization, ignites the growth of leaders and high performing teams to deliver quality outcomes. As a result, she is a highly-rated trainer, coach, facilitator, and motivational keynote speaker. In addition to her extensive knowledge and skills, her biggest offering is inspiring people to believe anything is possible. Her aim is to create connections and environments that challenge and support people in an authentic, vulnerable, engaging, and fun way. In 2020, she founded Ignite Insight + Innovation.

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