Web Directions Culture 2019 Creating better teams

In this talk Peter takes you on a journey, sharing some of the most exciting, secret inner workings of honey bee colonies, answering questions, such as: How did bees evolve into a well-organized communicating superorganism?

How do bees form cohesive collaborative colonies, whose abilities go way beyond those of its members? How do honey bee colonies, made up of insects with tiny brains, debate and make complex and timely life-and-death decisions as a single unit? In conclusion, you will walk away with practical organizational best practices you can apply - all based on what our sweet friends teach us.

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It's widely understood that culture is a key to the success of any company or organisation, but we don't seem to have a mainstream way of talking about it.

In particular, how do you talk about Culture and address cultural elements from a commercial perspective? How does this help you design and scale culture?

And critically, how does this "rational" approach work with the our not entirely rational approach to life that we humans often take?

In this presentation, Mahesh Muralidhar will draw on lessons evolving and scaling culture at companies like Airtasker and Canva.

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There's no denying that flexibility is fast becoming a requirement when forming modern teams. We're seeing some great example patterns for successful remote, onsite and distributed team structures when it comes to scaling delivery, but how do we bring people closer together when they're getting further apart? Let's talk about scaling culture and deliberately designing in inclusive habits for the whole team.

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I will be using my experience and knowledge of working within people & culture teams, trying to drive change on gender balance in tech teams. In high growth tech companies, she has experienced first-hand the challenges faced by most companies and recognises the immense pressure technology leaders face to make a difference without the understanding of how to achieve it. The group I created 'Men Championing Change' has set out to equip the leaders of these teams with what they need to help influence this problem and also a platform with which to amplify the message.

Attendees will take away a fresh perspective on solving the issues around improving representation of w*men in technology careers. The goal is to give the audience an understanding of why men in leadership are a critical component of solving the challenge and to inspire them to explore how they can harness this approach in their own environments instead of leaving D&I to the women

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It’s something we all struggle with, admitting we don’t know something. But I’m here to show you the power of saying “I don’t know” to people.

Saying “I don’t know” doesn’t have to be the end of a conversation, in fact it can be the start of an entirely new, exciting conversation with learning opportunities for all parties.

We will talk through scenarios where we don’t feel comfortable saying it, ways we can feel comfortable saying it, and the good things that come from it.

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Want to know what it's like hacking hypergrowth and scaling people & culture at one of Australia's hottest start-ups? Jen is a radically candid people rebel leading SafetyCulture, a $440M AU tech start-up's, People team across APAC, EMEA and North America. Hear from Jen on some of the key lessons they've learnt along the way scaling from 50 to 300+ people in less than 2 years.

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Why is it so challenging for People and Culture leaders to create meaningful change within their organisations?

This talk explores the new realities facing People and Culture leaders and provides the audience with three actionable experiments to try today, tomorrow, and next week to overcome the strategy-action gap to build momentum and real cultural change within your own team or organisation.

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Kristi discovered growth businesses nearly fifteen years ago after starting her career in professional services (accounting, finance & law). Since then, she's had the privilege to help grow and evolve the operations of traditional service businesses by taking advantage of the power of technology, and establishing new categories.

Having served in a variety of leadership roles from product development to sales & marketing, she's most driven by finding the path forward for growth and building and aligning the team needed around that opportunity.

Her mission at Flatiron School is to create a new model for education that enables the pursuit of a better life. After an immersive twelve week program, their graduates launch careers in software engineering, armed with modern skills, an ability to learn rapidly and a feeling of purpose.

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Our relationship with collaboration is painful. We say we value teamwork, but it often gets messy and complicated. This session breaks down three ways we can work better together as product, developer, design, and business people to help their work shine.

I have several ways to shade this for different audiences. For developers, I focus on exploring ideas, and communicating; for product management I emphasize setting the right environment for their team to thrive as collaborators.

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People remain essential to any organisation's success but are ultimately volunteers. So how can you be sure your team will be inspired to come to work tomorrow to give discretionary effort and achieve something remarkable? Colleague, manager or leader, there are key principles underpinning how to energize your people and culture at scale to achieve lasting high performance.

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