Leading change in the 21st century? You need a 21st century engagement model:

• Based not on the imposition of prescribed solutions but around authentic agreement on outcomes
• Not linear and plan-based, but emergent, humane, and complexity-conscious
• Not just one-off projects, but the beginning of new conversations and new kinds of conversation
• Not proprietary, but open and framework-agnostic – built by and for a welcoming community of experienced practitioners working at the intersection of Lean, Agile, organisation development (OD), and strategy deployment

The Advanced workshop ‘Coaching and leading continuous transformation’ is the Agendashift engagement model compressed into a highly immersive 2-day workshop. It is aimed at coaches, consultants, and managers wishing to:

• Develop their coaching and leadership skills in the areas of enquiry, facilitation, strategy deployment, and change leadership
• Broaden and deepen their appreciation of the Lean-Agile landscape and related bodies of knowledge and their strategic application to organisational development

Who should attend?

The advanced workshop is aimed at all agents and leaders of organisational change – whether internal or external, specialist practitioner or sponsor. Whilst the majority of attendees have been coaches and consultants, a significant number have held managerial and business leadership roles.

This workshop is offered both publicly and privately. Public workshops are focussed primarily on skills. You will however have ample opportunity to put them into your organisational context and demonstrate Agendashift’s ability to meet organisational needs in ways such as these:

• Launching, refocusing, or reenergising continuous transformation in your organisation
• Enhancing your organisation’s internal coaching and change management capability
• Embedding outcome-orientation and continuous transformation through leadership development

Outcomes

• Practice in a range of outcome-oriented facilitation techniques
• Recognition of the role of outcome orientation in the modern organisation
• Understanding of the integration of techniques and concepts from Lean-Agile, Kanban, Clean Language, Cynefin, Lean Startup, and A3
• Awareness of the power of feedback loops in organisational behaviour and evolution

Participants will receive a print copy of the book Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation. A survey based on the Agendashift delivery assessment will be distributed to workshop participants a week or so in advance.

Facilitation

Your facilitator will be Agendashift founder Mike Burrows. Mike is the author of Kanban from the Inside (2014) and Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation (2018); his third book Right to Left: the digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile is due August 2019. Mike is known for Kanban’s values model, the Featureban and Changeban games, and as a strong advocate for participatory and outcome-oriented approaches to change, transformation, and strategy. Prior to his consulting career, Mike was global development manager and Executive Director at a top tier investment bank, and CTO for an energy risk management startup.

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Discounts

Current members of the Agendashift partner programme and attendees of previous Agendashift workshops are eligible to a £50 discount. Attendance at this workshop qualifies new partners to the same discount off their first year membership. We are also happy to offer significant discounts to employees in the public, educational, and charitable/non-profit sectors. Please email support@agendashift.com for details and discount codes.

Workshop overview

Day 1: Learning the language of outcomes

1. Discovery: Describing where we'd like to get to

Exploring organisational context, objectives, obstacles, and outcomes using these Core exercises:

Additional material/exercises may cover:

• Culture
• Values
• Systems Thinking
  
  

2. Exploration: Prospecting for opportunities

The opportunity to practice skills acquired in Discovery, using for raw material an analysis of the Agendashift delivery assessment (an online survey distributed in advance as prework):

Additional material/exercises may cover:

• Mission, purpose, and identity
• Self-awareness and empathy
• Understanding and supporting the learning process
  
  

Day 2: Organising for impact

3. Mapping: Building a visual transformation plan

Additional material/exercises may cover:

• Complexity theory and its application
• Other mapping and strategy tools
• Strategy model reconciliations
  
  

4. Elaboration: Framing actions, testing our thinking
and 5. Operation: Change as real work:

The culture, practice, and organisation of hypothesis-based change:

Optionally:

• The Agendashift adaptability assessment
• Outside-in service delivery review (OI-SDR) and strategy review (OI-SR) meetings

Agendashift™ is copyright © 2015-2019 Positive Incline Ltd. All rights reserved. The Agendashift Advanced workshop description (and the Discovery, Exploration, Mapping, Elaboration, and Operation curriculum elements on which it is based) by Mike Burrows of Positive Incline Ltd is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.