Talk: When Experts Collide- Exploring the Nuance of Team Integration with Popular Drum Beats

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Title:	When Experts Collide- Exploring the Nuance of Team Integration with Popular Drum Beats
Short synopsis:	When forming a team we look for individuals that possess specific skill sets. To be effective, teams must integrate those skill sets and therein lays the challenge. Empathy is an important tool in an agile coach’s tool box and the quickest route to empathy is first-hand experience. Wouldn’t it be nice to acquire first-hand experience of the nuances of team skills integration and process the whole event in the duration of a single workshop? Oh, and experience it kinesthetically? Dude! Max size: 500 chars
Long synopsis (optional):	INTRODUCTION Playing each part of a drum set is much easier than playing all the parts at the same time and in this session we leverage from that experience. Teams of performers will actually play their part of a drum beat then integrate with other performers playing their parts at the same time. These teams will experience a progression through individual mastery, peer team mastery, integrated team mastery (this is where it gets interesting), integrated team agility, and integrated team stability. There are two important elements in an agile coach’s toolbox. The first is personal awareness in order to mindfully engage another human or group of humans without emotional attachment. Mastery of this element is a multi-faceted and an ongoing journey. The second element is to bring first-hand experiences to their work, especially if the nuances of that experience have been meaningfully studied and processed. The experiences during this session will be discussed at each phase and more richly processed with the help of assigned observers. SESSION TAKEAWAYS - Team skills integration is physically contextual, but challenged with emotions - Apply a construct that defines steps from individual mastery to integrated team mastery - Become highly sensitized to the nuances of team skills integration SESSION FORMAT Materials: Team integration construct poster, plastic (quiet) drum sticks, chairs Session breakdown: Theme 1: Individual and peer mastery 0:00-0:03 Presenter introduction, demonstration of drum beats, elements of the construct 0:03-0:05 Introduction of rhythmic map 0:05-0:08 Identify volunteers- Two sets of- a trio to be the high-hat, a trio to be the snare drum, a trio to be the bass drum. This will total 18 persons. This can be done with duos totaling 12 if necessary. 0:08-0:14 Each set of trios has 3 minutes to master their 5 rhythms with coaching Theme 2: Integrated Team Mastery 0:14-0:20 Each trio will perform their patterns individually, then together. This is the crucial step into the team integration space. The experience is processed with the observers. Theme 3: Team Agility 0:20-0:25 Agility- Each trio is then assigned a specific order in which to play their patterns. The experience is processed with the observers. Theme 4: Team Stability 0:25-0:30 Stability- The trios are given a specific pattern to perform together then challenged by varying degrees of audible rhythmic disruption. The experience is processed with the observers. Fun Time: 0:30-0:35 The skilled and integrated volunteers now get to play along with David Bowie (Let’s Dance, Fame), Rolling Stones (Miss You, Give Me Shelter), Michael Buble singing Sway, and Harry Belefonte’s Day O. Warning, spontaneous dancing may occur. 0:35-0:45 Q&A This has been presented once at Global Scrum London October 2018 with extreme reviews. Either people loved it or hated it. Judging from F2F feedback at the conference, the folks that volunteered seemed to be very happy with it. This may be best suited for a smaller group format. I do not yet have a video of this session available for public viewing but hope to soon. Here is a video of another drum-talk from 2016. https://youtu.be/ePt9UlV_wtw Max size: 5000 chars
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