Being Agile in Business - Managing your Business, Team & Projects

Being Agile in Business

Business Agility, Team Working, Project Management

Location: Online via Zoom

Overview

Join us for a practical, half-day online workshop. This session introduces Agile project management, a flexible and collaborative approach that helps teams navigate change, manage resources effectively, and deliver impactful work.

Why Agile

Agile is a people-first, flexible way of working that supports creativity, collaboration and change, making it a perfect fit for small to medium size organisations.

If your work often involves shifting priorities, tight deadlines and a need to adapt as you go. Agile provides a mindset and methods to navigate these challenges, create a sustainable pace and maximise outcomes.

It gives you practical tools to plan and deliver your work in manageable steps, communicate clearly with your team, and stay focused on what really matters, even when things are changing and unknown.

If you care about working well with others, delivering meaningful projects and making the most of what you’ve got, Agile can help.

In this practical course and workshop, you’ll learn how to create your own way of working that adapts to you and the world around you — helping you feel more organised, focused and in control

• Reduce overwhelm by breaking tasks into manageable steps using simple tools
• Stay organised and focused with your own adaptable planner — digital or physical
• Keep track of everything real-time in one place - no more wondering where you put things
• Feel more in control of shifting priorities, projects and to-do lists
• Make confident decisions using an adaptive mindset to navigate uncertainty
• Work more effectively by reviewing and improving how you work over time
• Manage real projects and ideas using practical, flexible planning methods
• Get unstuck and feel more motivated by seeing visible progress and quick wins
• Collaborate more smoothly with tools that reduce emails and improve communication
• Create a way of working that fits you — agile, adaptable and sustainable

This course is ideal if you’re juggling multiple demands, starting something new, or simply ready to work in a clearer, simpler way.

What You’ll Gain

• Understand Agile Principles: Learn the core concepts and benefits of Agile methodologies.

• Apply Agile Tools: Discover how to implement Agile thinking and tools in your projects and teams.

• Enhance Collaboration: Improve team communication and adaptability, whether working remotely or on-site.

• Practical Application: Use the Being Agile Canvas to apply Agile practices to your current work during interactive exercises.

Who Should Attend

No prior experience with Agile is necessary. Whether you’re managing a small team or coordinating large-scale projects, this workshop will provide valuable insights and tools.

Included in the Workshop

• FREE Project Planning Canvas: A printable canvas to help you apply Agile methods to your own work during the workshop. (Print 8 x A4 pages to create your own A1 Project Wall Planner.

• Online Resources: Access to the Being Agile Online Hub, including slides, templates, stories, and videos.

• Session Recording: A recording of the workshop for your reference or to watch on replay if you are unable to attend live.

About your host

Belinda Waldock is a business coach, trainer, speaker, and author of Being Agile in Business.

Hi, I'm Belinda Waldock,

I’m the founder of Being Agile in Business which explores how we can boost our productivity, growth and well-being to make our businesses and lives better.

In my book Being Agile in Business, and my Online Courses and Workshops, I share practical insights into how we can be more adaptable, responsive and innovative in our business to help us overcome challenges and take advantage of opportunities.

Over 25 years as a business coach I've had the pleasure of working with thousands of businesses, founded 3 businesses, delivered multi-million pound growth programmes helping small and start up businesses to grow, formed a tech community and a global award winning conference and travelled internationally to share 'Being Agile' with corporates, public sector, charities and high growth businesses from Dublin to Doha.

The Being Agile Method was featured in The Times and the book voted Management Gold by the Chartered Management Institute.

I live in Cornwall, UK, when I'm not being agile in business, you can find me being agile with my pony, Murphy, and Jack Russell, Jed! I believe taking an adaptive agile approach works well in both work and life!

I look forward to connecting with you and helping you to be more agile in your business and boosting your productivity, growth and well-being!

Book Your Place

Spaces are limited to ensure an interactive experience. Reserve your spot today:

If you need assistance or have questions about the workshop, feel free to reach out to me, Belinda at belinda@beingagile.co.uk.

5 Reasons Agile Works

1. Supports Collaboration - Agile brings people together. It helps teams stay on the same page, share ideas, and move forward with clarity and confidence.

2. Adapts to Change - Projects often shift, new stakeholders join, budgets change, ideas evolve. Agile helps you respond to changes without losing momentum.

3. Works with Limited Time and Resources - Agile is all about doing what matters most, first. It helps you focus your energy and make steady progress, even with small teams or tight budgets.

4. Encourages Creativity and Experimentation - Agile supports trying things out, learning as you go, and refining your ideas.

5. Fits Your Values - Agile puts people first. It’s built on trust, openness, care and continuous learning.

A practical introduction to agile management, the mindset and its methods, practices and tools

“Thank you – one of the best training sessions I’ve been on in a long time. Really productive, pragmatic and helpful” Chloe, Cornwall Museums Partnership

Course Reviews

"Belinda’s sessions have transformed my approach to the day-to-day of my business. Before attending, I had hit a block about which next steps to take, but Belinda’s training transformed my approach. After implementing her recommendations, I achieved more in one day than I had in the previous few weeks, and that progress has continued since. Thank you" - Coralie Turner, Science Station

“Your system is brilliant, I have applied what I learnt from your training for the past couple of weeks and I’ve been the most productive I’ve been in ages - the concept is brilliant. I’m adhd too, and it’s so helpful to see visually what I’ve got to do. Thank you”

Justine Emma Marriott - Blossom and Bloom Maternal Wellbeing

“I found the Being Agile training very useful, especially the canvas. The clear method to organise my big giant list of all of the things that need to be done, with some practical ways to prioritise tasks is helpful. Belinda is really approachable and understands that museums can have some unique challenges, and her experience with small businesses allows for the exchange of ideas.” Zara Matthews, Museum Manager Network

Probably the best training I’ve ever done!

The most useful training I’ve been to to actually help with workload

Excellent, really clear and methodical approach that I can apply

Very useful and timely, some excellent specific outcomes.

Thank you very interesting and positive. Look forward to bringing this to the workplace 😀

Fantastic session so helpful and clear mix of theory and practice. Lots of to take good sense of humour and atmosphere trick/tip with the post its is a revelation !

Enjoyable and interesting day different way of thinking and learned how to use a Post-it note!

Great to be out of the office getting more perspective on managing workload effectively😀

Really useful like the canvas appreciate (online) course as follow-up

Very clear and accessible

Values and principles that feel intuitive tools that will be immediately helpful.

Concise, useful, interesting and interactive

Exceeded expectations, gave a structure to lots of ways that were familiar. Really useful and practical advice, well tailored to the sector.

Practical, succinct, relevant, and relatable. Thanks. PS Post it knowledge is mind blowing!

Museum Managers Network South East

“A really interesting session giving tips and tools on how to become more agile as remote teams. There was a lot of helpful content and ideas that I will be thinking about how to take forward in my own work, that of my team and wider project teams in which I participate. I really appreciated the links to free tools that can support agile working in practice and the nugget of advice to take an ‘agile’ approach to start to work in an ‘agile’ manner i.e. small and meaningful change.” Gaye Kirby, Head of Development & Strategy, Durham Cathedral

“Invigorating, timely and informative training. Given me confidence to try some of the ways of agile working, firstly as an individual and then across the organisation. Liked having access to the training material in advance of the training. Did not use jargon. Highly recommend. Can’t wait to try an agile approach.”Amanda Anderson, Chief Operating Officer , Durham Cathedral

“The course linked theory/mindset and practice and the conversations were flowing well. I’m going agile! Practical tools, but more importantly a clearer sense of how to relate them to my personal style and our working culture. This course is simple, well delivered and incredibly practical.” Guy Baxter, Museum of English Rural Life, Associate Director

“Belinda gave us an excellent introduction to the concept of Agile and the applications in managing teams and projects, demonstrating the potential benefits to our organisations of adopting Agile working. The workshop gave us practical methods to take away and apply to managing workflows and assessing current projects. I am using my board to manage my personal workflow as well as the ACE project overall and in the short term to manage the planning of a forthcoming event with colleagues.” Alison Hilton, Museum of English Rural Life, Marketing Manager

“Positive ideas for how to manage workload. I was impressed that from a one hour introduction I learnt 2 practical techniques for managing workloads as an individual and as part of a team. I like the fact that it is very visual but also transparent as other colleagues can see the workload of the team.” Caroline Gould, Museum of English Rural Life, Principal Archivist

“Agile can help free up space in your brain and help you track a rapidly changeable project, task or role more effectively. Belinda was the ideal person for opening the eyes of our stressed colleagues to the potential of Agile in their day-to-day work. The half-day workshop is a concentrated introduction to Agile concepts, methods and practical applications which left everyone who attended inspired to immediately order a million post-it notes. I enjoyed the emptying of my head onto the project board and the movement of tasks across it. The transition worked well to reinforce how project boards help. I have already made a personal and project board, and we are trialling Agile for my own project and with those who attended the workshop. We have plans to potentially expand it to more people in both institutions.” Adam Koszary, Museum of English Rural Life and Reading Museum, Project Manager

“The Agile workshop was a real invigorating experience. I left feeling enriched for life. it has given me a life tool to use not only in my professional life but also in my private life so much so that I have now passed on my newly acquired knowledge and skills to my immediate family members and friends. I think success is guaranteed for anyone who is equipped with such powerful knowledge and skills. Honestly speaking, I think it should be taught to all of us who aspire to do better and be instilled into young minds from very early on.” Nitisha Ramrekha-Heeramum, Museum Diversity Team, The Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading and Reading Museum

“I have found the ‘Learn Act Reflect’ board to be very useful for my own workload and collectively with the project team. It is a step up from writing down your tasks on a ‘to-do’ list or in a diary. With this plan you can really analyse everything that you are doing which can help to ease the pressure of working on a number of tasks simultaneously. It’s a great feeling when you see your tasks gradually move into the ‘Done’ box!” Charlene Marriott, Museum Diversity Team, The Museum of English Rural Life and Reading Museum

“Thank you – one of the best training sessions I’ve been on in a long time. Really productive, pragmatic and helpful” Chloe, Cornwall Museums Partnership

“A really productive thought provoking session packed full of material and good ideas.”

“Great blend of talking and activity.”

“very practical examples which everyone can relate to.“

“Relaxed and informative presentation style which enabled everyone to contribute.”

“Although I’ve been to an Agile workshop previously, this time everything slotted into place more clearly. I think it was being able to plot everything (first with the boat diagram and then moving on to our boards) and also being able to compare mine to everyone else’s boards as a team.”

What our customers say about agile for business..

“We invited Belinda to run a Being Agile course for our Museums Managers Network, and it was a brilliant day. As both organiser and participant, I found the training incredibly valuable, as did the group. It gave me a clear, practical way to organise my giant list of ‘to-dos’ and helped me prioritise effectively without feeling overwhelmed. Belinda is warm, approachable, and really gets the unique challenges museums face. Her background working with Arts & Heritage teams and small businesses brought a fresh perspective, it helped us to share ideas and gave us simple tools to help us collaborate more as a group and with our own teams.”

Zara Matthews - Museum Managers Network

“I worked with Belinda over a six-month time frame developing the strategy for my consultancy business. We completed a number of sessions both one on one and alongside my Non-Exec, and Belinda’s approach and application of key agile techniques were transformative in creating the 5 year business strategy that was created in 2021 and is still going strong today!” Marc Warburton, Founder & CEO, Daedal

“Belinda really helped us demystify our product development processes, planning and product roadmap. This helped us technically to better organise and manage our work, whilst also helping us consider different levels of roadmap presentation for investors and partners as a business. We highly recommend working with Belinda!” Matt Halstead CFO & COO Molydyn

• Immediate productivity increase of 25%
• Improved workflow management/organisation
• Continuous improvement
• Effective time management / prioritisation
• Leadership skills, team building
• Better collaboration, effective communication
• Team/organisational alignment
• A positive cultural/paradigm shift and the tools to sustain
• A more objective work ethic (smarter, not harder)
• Practical experience applying Agile / Lean which opens opportunities for further development & visibility

“Belinda walked us through the Agile mindset and methodology with the perfect blend of theory and practice, giving clear examples along the way to solidify our understanding and meticulously answering any questions we had. Each session covered hands on application to aspects of workflow/project management that were very helpful to the team and Trello is one of many tools that we will be using going forward to leverage “sprints” over “marathons” in ongoing and future projects. We applied tools to review, reflect and learn from previous projects, and created a product delivery roadmap that helped us organise our delivery framework from plant design and development to handover and scaling. Overall, from the Agile coaching provided we feel more prepared as a team to tackle upcoming workloads.“ Felipe Marques, CCm Technologies

“Belinda supported our team during our transition from a ‘brick and mortar’ into an EdTech resulting in a 150% increase in turnover. This was a new journey for most of the team and we needed a framework to work with along with a lexicon that we could all buy into. We were fortunate enough to have Agile training with Belinda. For the non-technical in the company this was life changing. Personally, I wish I had had such training on leaving full time education or even during education.” Neil Pick, Tellus Education Group

“Although I’ve been to an Agile workshop previously, this time everything slotted into place more clearly. I think it was being able to plot everything (first with the boat diagram and then moving on to our boards) and also being able to compare mine to everyone else’s boards as a team.”

“Belinda has enabled us to not only understand agile for business, but also to anticipate change in our fast-moving sector, streamline workflows and discover new ways to collaborate in and out of the organisation” Crowdfunder

“Belinda helped me to understand the concept and details of the Agile approach in a very effective way and with an excellent balance between breadth and depth. We also had the chance to talk about the different possibilities and options of applying Agile to the context of the business including suggestions of the best approach to start using it in real cases. As someone with Project Management background I really enjoyed the experience as it allowed me to expand my project management “toolkit”. I will start applying Agile in the business in the short term with special attention to its visibility and team coordination features.”

"One of the best webinars I’ve attended in ages. I liked the technology you used for the webinar too. Very user friendly and clear." Michelle Nelson Chart. PR MCIPR

“If you are always looking for ways to make you, your team and your business smarter then I strongly recommend this course. Thanks Belinda!” Percy Griffiths, Process Improvement Manager, Finance & IT, BRITA UK

"The squads we set up in November continue to run, they have definitely help drive collaboration, the breaking down of silos and greater trust across the team and with the leadership team. I think they also set us up to make the shift to remote working much quicker than might otherwise have been the case.” Rob Shaw, OMSE, BP Operational Management System Excellence.

If you would like to book an agile course customised for your team please contact belinda@beingagile.co.uk