If You Stopped Assigning Work, Would Anything Happen?
Self-management isn’t a buzzword and it isn’t an absence of structure. It’s four specific things — autonomy, collaboration, adaptability, and accountability — and this course covers how to build each one.
Getting Out of the Way Is a Skill, Not a Decision.
Every leader has been told to empower their team. Almost nobody is told what has to be true first, or what to do when the team goes quiet and waits to be told.
This course is the four keys of self-management and the work behind each one:
- Autonomy — decisions made in role, and announced rather than requested
- Collaboration — a team working one item together, not dividing and reporting
- Adaptability — anticipating change instead of reacting to it
- Accountability — ownership of outcomes, held by peers rather than a manager
Three modules, ten templates, and homework for each one that you run with your actual team.
Start whenever you like
Self-paced: 3 modules, Free.
What you'll learn
- The four keys of self-management, and why a team missing one of them stalls
- Defining roles clearly enough that people stop asking permission
- Facilitating a team to its own core values, using reflection rather than a list
- “Intending up” — announcing a decision so the team can weigh in before you act
- Building team agreements collaboratively, and keeping them alive as the team changes
- What collaboration actually means: shared work, not divided work
- Cultivating adaptability through growth mindset and scenario planning
- The six parts of real accountability, including peer accountability and recognition
- Balancing adaptability against accountability without losing either
Who this is for
- Managers who want a team that doesn’t wait to be told
- Scrum Masters coaching a team toward self-management
- Team leads who keep getting pulled into decisions they shouldn’t own
What you get
- Three recorded modules with homework you run with your team
- Ten templates and worksheets — roles, values, agreements, adaptability, accountability
- A certificate of completion when you finish every module
- Yours permanently — free access doesn't expire
The fine print
What’s covered
Three modules, in order. Each ends with homework and the downloads to do it:
Module One
Focus: The four keys, roles, and core values
- What self-management is, and the four keys that make it work
- Defining roles, authority, and how people interact
- Facilitating core values through reflective questions
- Implementing autonomy and accountability, and “intending up”
- Homework: roles and responsibilities, core values, an action plan
Module Two
Focus: Team agreements and a collaborative culture
- What team agreements cover and why they prevent conflict
- Building them with the whole team rather than for them
- Collaboration as shared work on one item, not coordinated separate work
- Using agreements as an onboarding tool for new members
- Homework: hold the meeting and document your agreements
Module Three
Focus: Adaptability and accountability
- Growth mindset and scenario planning as adaptability practices
- The six elements of accountability, peer accountability included
- Balancing the two without letting either swallow the other
- Feedback loop frameworks and role clarity as working tools
- Homework: a scenario planning toolkit and a feedback loop framework
Modules unlock in order — finish one to open the next.
Module three is the longest and asks the most of you; it pulls the first two together.
Training formats
Self-paced online, start any time
Free — a free account is all that’s needed to enrol
Prerequisites
None, though Building Team Foundations pairs naturally with it.