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Maximize your Company’s Power with Open Leadership

Posted by Marbenz Antonio on February 6, 2023

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Regardless of their role, title, or position, leaders at all levels can practice leadership, including managers and individual contributors. Transforming or modernizing a business, whether it’s a small team or a large organization, requires a change in multiple areas. What was effective in the past may not be applicable in today’s rapidly changing, volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. Leadership is distinct from management, particularly in organizations that embrace open leadership, where every individual can exhibit leadership qualities.

What is open leadership?

Open leadership is a perspective and a set of actions that anyone can take on. Open leaders, as described in The Open Organization, approach leadership with a focus on serving others, whether it be individuals, groups, teams, or the wider organization, in order to achieve a shared goal. They are individuals with strong characters who empower those around them. Open leaders excel in creating organizations that prioritize transparency, inclusivity, adaptability, collaboration, and a sense of community.

Red Hat Open Innovation Labs offers open leadership training sessions as part of its residencies, giving leaders the chance to enhance their open and agile skills needed to effectively lead their product teams. The training helps them to improve their sponsorship and advocacy skills, creating a supportive environment that encourages transformation and advancement.

When executed properly, open leadership fosters a positive organizational culture of involvement based on the principles of the open-source movement. In complex and rapidly changing business environments, leaders must learn to apply open values and principles in their actions and behavior. They must also effectively lead and manage remote and dispersed teams to build trust, promote psychological safety, and motivate their personnel.

About the “Open Leadership for Product Teams” workshop

The Open Leadership for Product Teams workshop is a crucial component of a Red Hat Open Innovation Labs residency and offers leaders practical, hands-on experience in establishing high-performing product teams. Our customer engagement approach is guided by our key leadership principles, which include collaboration, transparency, inclusivity, adaptability, community, agile methodologies, lean ways of working, and design thinking. The workshops are tailored to meet customers’ specific needs and are designed to be interactive, helping participants gain a practical understanding of open leadership and how to lead product teams using open practices. The workshop helps establish a shared language between leaders and managers, as well as the residency team.

Red Hat Open Leadership workshop outcomes

The objectives of our open leadership engagement workshops are to help participants achieve the following four goals:

  • A clear grasp of open practices gives participants specific insights on how to enhance their abilities as open leaders.’
  • Comprehending the purpose behind open practices and how to encourage transparency, inclusivity, collaboration, community, and adaptability through their application.
  • An understanding of how to aid teams in their transition to embracing open, agile, DevOps, and lean product development practices.
  • The capability to analyze their current situation and gain fresh insights for enhancing their organizational culture through the adoption of new working practices.

Red Hat, FIWARE, and Hopu power eco-smart cities:

“A team consisting of experts from Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, FIWARE, and HOPU joined forces for a six-week period to develop an open-source platform on Red Hat Openshift. This platform will host both FIWARE’s innovative smart cities solution and HOPU’s Internet of Things (IoT) technology. The objective of this cross-industry collaboration was to create a data solution that cities worldwide could use to become more intelligent and sustainable. By providing an easily deployable, secure, and scalable IoT solution, cities will be able to collect crucial data and harness technology for the betterment of citizens globally.”


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