Now we've given them every freedom and they still don’t do what we want

– A cheat-sheet for all kinds of modern leaders, agilists or architects alike –

From "enabling constraints" and "acts of leadership" to the finer points of motivation (beyond the oversimplified intrinsic vs. extrinsic), this session will present ideas for participatory leadership that have been tried and tested in practice and can be used immediately.

In many large organizations, a "letting go of the reigns" approach to self-management leads to high levels of stress for everyone involved due to the mismatch between "covert" (implicit) expectations and "open" (explicit) requirements. Also, this creates major challenges when it comes to achieving goals that go beyond individuals or teams.

We'll explore how the conscious selection from four categories of "acts of leadership" – direction, setting examples, inspiration and signaling – can help to remove a lot of anxiety and burden.

And while for some personality types and in some situations total freedom of choice seems quite desirable, there are many situation where without agreed upon constrains work becomes neither fruitful nor joyful due to the lack of direction – but how do we find the balance?

In many areas from the performing arts to organizational development the kind of constraints that enable more fruitful and joyful work is called "enabling constraints"

This session is to show ways and means to create such enabling constraints collaboratively and how to design them in such a way that they even foster (sic!) motivation.

Furthermore this session will shed some light on the not so black and white area that is called autonomous motivation which lies between "extrinsic motivation" (seemingly bad) and "intrinsic motivation" (seemingly unattainable for many external requirements) and how this spectrum can be actively used.

The last area that is covered is how honest(!) delegation can reduce frustration on all sides and explain the possibilities behind the "Acts of Leadership" known from the Kanban method, for example.

Of course, the whole thing will be based on examples from personal work, coaching, and consulting experiences, so that participants can take away concrete ideas for their own work.