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Everybody dreams about working with a team that is self-organising and high-performing.
In this talk, you will learn how to apply the principles of Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose
in the context of team building and culture. You will walk away with practical methods to
use these principles to make your team more self-organising.
I will explore:
* How to inject Autonomy into your team through Lean Startup and Product Thinking concepts.
* Instilling Mastery through utilising Agile and Data-Driven decision making.
* and, how to foster a sense of Purpose through the application of Goal Setting Theory and Vision Alignment.
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chrisseaton commented Nov 13, 2016

Everybody dreams about working with a team that is self-organising

Hmm... does everyone? I'm not sure I do. If you start with a statement like this it could turn away people who may be interested in what you're saying and could be convinced to your way of thinking.

you will learn how to apply the principles of Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose
in the context of team building and culture

I think you need to somewhat explain what these are in the abstract. Not only does it make the abstract useless unless you already know all about the topic (!) but it makes it look like you don't understand that other people may not be as familiar with the topic as you.

How to inject Autonomy

Why is 'Autonomy' in title case? It it a proper noun? Some kind of product?

Goal Setting Theory and Vision Alignment

Sorry to be a little mean, but I think you're way off into business-speak by this point. Sorry :(

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anjuan commented Nov 13, 2016

I've come up with a STARS set of criteria for evaluating conference abstracts and proposals. Here's how I apply STARS (Subject, Type, Audience, Rigor, Speaker) criteria by awarding roughly one star to each successfully met criterion to this abstract:

(X) - Subject: I assume you're using Dan Pink's Drive book which describes autonomy, mastery, and purpose because I'm familiar with Pink's TED Talk. However, you should reference Drive to give proper attribution to Pink and help increase the relevance of this abstract.
(X) - Type/Track: Is this a 30-45 minute session or a Lightning talk? What track would this fall in at the conferences you plan to submit the abstract to?
(X) - Audience: The audience is not clear. I don't think "everyone" is a good target audience. Who do you expect to attend this session?
(X) - Rigor: Abstracts are meant to be light, but this one needs more detail. How will you present the ideas behind this abstract? Will you do a case study, draw from your own experience, or use technical examples?
(X) - Speaker(s): Abstracts often aren't appropriate for including a link to a video of you giving a presentation, but I do recommend including them somewhere else on the proposal if possible.

So, this abstract gets zero stars out of five, but I think you have something here. Keep writing!

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