No longer willing to stand by and watch as people try to transform your organisation like it’s just another rollout project? Then you’ll recognise both the urgent need and the real power of Agendashift™’s starting point: authentic agreement on meaningful outcomes as the basis for change.
That crucial shift in perspective opens up some exciting new possibilities:
New kinds of
conversations
Conversations in the language of needs, obstacles, and outcomes; agreement on outcomes the precursor to change
Adaptive
strategy
Outcomes organised coherently for impact, for alignment, and in the anticipation of future learning
Innovation
at the edges
Strategy turned to action where it matters most, solutions emerging from the people closest to the problem
Business agility
at every scale
Becoming a Deliberately Adaptive Organisation through continuous and self-sustaining transformation
Who we are:
- Pioneers in outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation
- Expert practitioners working at the exciting intersection of strategy, organisation development, and delivery
What makes us different:
- Our open framework: Having more in common with dialogic organisation development, Lean Startup, and OKR than it does with traditional change management, Agendashift is in the vanguard of a new category, the engagement model. Agendashift gives leaders new ways to approach their adaptive challenges, to keep people engaged people in that process, and to keep the organisation whole as it transforms.
- Our deep commitment to outcomes: not just outcomes first but outcomes from top to bottom and at the forefront throughout – maximising their meaningfulness, their significance, and their power to inspire collaboration, innovation, and reinvention
- Our mission: the wholehearted and Deliberately Adaptive (deliberately-adaptive.org) organisation. Not someone else’s delivery process to be inflicted out of context, but something to pursue – a holistic integration of strategy, delivery, and organisation development that works at each scale and between scales, embedding engagement, participation, and purpose
What we provide:
- Through the Agendashift Academy (academy.agendashift.com), self-paced training and public workshops for leaders at every level – managers, practitioners, and more
- Through our partner programme: integrated workshop materials and our unique assessment tools
- Through our partner network and directly: consulting, coaching, and facilitation services
- Free resources – tools, templates, and training games – as used by practitioners the world over
More:
About Agendashift
| Agendashift on Slack
| Agendashift on LinkedIn
| Become a partner
| Events
| Contact us
External:
Agendashift Academy (academy.agendashift.com)
| The Deliberately Adaptive Organisation (deliberately-adaptive.org)
Headlines
Blog
- All Agendashift assessments now available in Korean
- Agendashift roundup, July 2021
- Optimising for Significance
- Pilots wanted
- Inside-out or outside-in? A strategy warmup
- Loved Adam Grant’s Think Again
- Latest media and calendar updates
- What do I mean by ‘generative pattern’?
More: Blog | Monthly roundups | Classic posts (blog.agendashift.com)
Media
Calling all stakeholders to deliver an experience your users would actually love – the agile advantage (2 of 2)
Mobile Interactions Now (Mike Burrows interviewed by Jean Shin, www.tyntec.com)
Od czego zacząć transformację Agile?
Kanban przy kawie (Mike burrows interviewed by Radosław Orszewski, episode in English from 05:40 seconds onwards, kanbanprzykawie.pl)
Leading and Transforming with Outcomes
Expert Agile Club (expertagile.club, youtu.be)
Starting with user needs and optimizing for learning – how Agile is transforming (1 of 2)
Mobile Interactions Now (Mike Burrows interviewed by Jean Shin, www.tyntec.com)
More: Media
Read the book, now in its second edition:
Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation
Mike Burrows, (2nd edition March 2021)
By the same author:
- Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile (2019, audiobook 2020)
- Kanban from the Inside (2014)
More: Books
For the leaders of tomorrow’s wholehearted and deliberately adaptive organisations, Leading and Transforming with Outcomes is the Agendashift Academy’s leadership development curriculum, aimed at managers and practitioners both internal and external and at all experience levels. We deliver active, hands-on learning through a rich hybrid of self-paced training and facilitated workshops both public and private, directly or through partners. Always working on things that matter, it can even be integrated with on-the-job training.
It offers real flexibility without compromise: Foundation, Intermediate, and Advanced level completion will be certified only in that recommended sequence but students are free to take modules in any order according to need and interest.
All modules align with our philosophy of putting authentic agreement on meaningful outcomes ahead of solutions, an approach designed to promote meaning, participation, and engagement in work – both transformation-related and more broadly.
Foundation level:
Authentic Engagement
New conversations and new kinds of conversation – strategy conversations in the language of needs, obstacles, and outcomes
Intermediate level:
Meaningful Impact
Shaping and advancing strategy, aligning with the customer, maximising impact, meaningfulness, and learning
Advanced level:
Purposeful Adaptivity
Systematically removing the obstacles to wholeheartedness, business agility emerging at every scale
self-paced
self-paced
- Outside-in Strategy with Outcomes1
self-paced
- Transforming with Outcomes2
interactive
interactive
- Strategic Mapping with Outcomes
- Probe! Ideation & Experimentation
interactive
- Succeeding with Outcomes2
1From summer 2021
More:
Events (scheduled public classes and more)
External:
Agendashift Academy (academy.agendashift.com)
| The Deliberately Adaptive Organisation (deliberately-adaptive.org)
Calling all practioners! Join us in our mission: Helping organisations grow in wholeheartedness – to become less at war with themselves, their obstacles, imbalances, and contradictions identified and owned, value and meaning created through authentic engagement.
Removing what stands in the way of becoming a Deliberately Adaptive Organisation, business agility at every scale:
Agendashift partners
Corporate partners:
In our partner directory you’ll find dozens of individual practitioners in more than 20 countries worldwide listed. To become a partner yourself, start here:
Paid membership
The full range of assessment templates, no limits on survey size, a license to use our workshop materials, and an optional listing in our partner directory.
Free trial
For free, use the mini versions of our assessment tools for use with individuals or small groups. Templates in seven languages.
Assessments
The Agendashift Delivery Assessment in particular – the one introduced in chapter 2 of the book – is for many people their first experience of Agendashift; it sets the tone for what follows, and we take it very seriously! Unlike the vast majority of assessment tools – prescriptive, practice-centric, and therefore disappointing and frustrating to their respondents – ours is outcome-oriented and framework-agnostic by design, helping you quickly build agreement on outcomes, a legimate and powerful basis for change.
Experience this and related assessments in one of three ways:
Survey
Get a taste by participating in our global survey, which uses the ‘mini’ (18-prompt) version of our flagship assessment, the Agendashift Delivery Assessment.
Free trial
Administer your own team surveys for up to 10 participants per survey with a selection of our ‘mini’ (18-prompt) edition assessment templates.
Full access
Together with several other benefits, partners have access to the full range of assessment temnplate and may conduct surveys of unlimited size.
For our workshops, the assessment is typically distributed as prework a few days in advance or completed through a series of one-to-one conversations. Survey results may be debriefed via a clicker-friendly web report, printed for group work, or distributed as a PDF.
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- About Agendashift
- Agendashift as framework
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The books:
- Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation (2nd edition 2021)
- Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile (2019, audiobook 2020)
- The workshops:
- The Agendashift blog (blog.agendashift.com)
- Agendashift communities on Slack and LinkedIn
- Resources
Meet us online
- Subscribe (1-3 emails per month)
- Read our blog: blog.agendashift.com
- Join Agendashift on Slack
- Join our LinkedIn group: Agendashift
- Follow us on Twitter: @agendashift
About us
Agendashift™ is brought to you by Positive Incline Ltd, UK-based specialists in Lean, Agile, strategy, and change. Founder Mike Burrows came to prominence in the Lean-Agile community as the orginator of Kanban’s values model, out of which came his first book, Kanban from the Inside (2014). His more recent books Agendashift (2nd edition 2021) and Right to Left (2019, audiobook 2020) bring a resolutely needs-based and outcome-oriented perspective to change, transformation, and the Lean-Agile landscape as a whole, contributing meanwhile a number of popular tools, games, and other resources. He works as a consultant, facilitator, and trainer, and as a keynote speaker at events public and private around the world.
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