Craig and a late-arriving and quietly spoken Renee talk to Christopher Avery, author of “Teamwork is an Individual Skill” and the visionary behind The Leadership Gift and The Responsibility Process, at Agile 2015 in Washington, DC:

• Management science says that the problem of business performing highly and being profitable and people having a life at work are highly at odds with each other, Agile has challenged that
• Organisational Agility and self organising teams have been around since the late 80’s / early 90’s
• Keynoted the first combined XP / Agile Universe Conference in Calgary 2004
• The Responsibility Process is now in 26 languages, including Klingon
• The Responsibility Process is a naturally occurring pattern that occurs in our mind that shows how we respond to upset or frustration in ways that we either cope with it or take responsibility to learn and grow
• Correlation between The Responsibility Process and the 7 stages of grief
• You go through each stage, even if it is for a microsecond
• The mental state of responsibility is available to you all the time
• Listen for yourself saying “I have to…” then catch it and change it to a statement you are willing to own like “I am…” or “I choose…”
• The Responsibility Process Game – each day score yourself for when you heard it, said it or caught it
• Research started in 1984 and collected through participant observation and interaction
• “The first job of a leader is to define reality” Max De Pree
• First principle of leadership of The Responsibility Process – “No group in an organisation will consistently operate at higher levels of responsibility than the people to whom they report”
• The Leadership Gift program for individuals via christopheravery.com and corporate solutions as well via Partnerwerks
• The Responsibility Process book (coming soon)

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