Padmini Nidumolu
Co-Founder, Lean In Agile
Lean In Agile
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Padmini Nidumolu is an Agile community leader enabling the voices of women agilists be heard through women led events and campaigns. Her expertise and focus is to build learning organizations and delivering value by leveraging diversities as enablers leading to an enterprise culture of continuous improvement.
She plays an active role in the local Agile communities through speaking, volunteering, engaging with special interest groups with Agile practitioners, Agile Thought Leaders and Agile Coaches.
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Diversity is a powerful enabler to build high performing Agile teams
45 Mins
Talk
Intermediate
Summary: Building high performing teams requires leveraging various elements of diversity such as Cultural, Personality, Learning and Thinking styles.
Description:
Recognition and deep appreciation of diversity is aligned with the guiding principles within the Agile manifesto: Individuals and interactions over Processes and tools.
Often diversity is perceived as synonymous with age, ethnicity and gender. However, a team could be diverse in culture, personalities, thoughts and learning styles as well. Diversity within teams does not automatically contribute to high performance unless a safe and open environment is created to capitalize on their collective strengths, while enhancing communication, collaboration and cohesion.
The session will focus on two elements of diversity
- Cultural diversity: In this session, you will learn about cultural dimensions and frameworks forcross-cultural communication. People from different cultures generally have different levels of expectations, ways of interacting and communication. You will also learn how to understand various cultural attributes and ways to overcome the cultural barriers. This will reference Hofstede's cultural dimensions
- Diversity in Thinking and Learning styles: This session helps you discover and utilize the strengths and dominant themes impacting an individual’s performance. Complementary skills and thought diversity within the teams can significantly contribute to innovation and excellence. This will reference Hermann’s Whole brain thinking methodology.
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