Agendashift™: The wholehearted, outcome-oriented engagement model
Not just game-changing for engagement, a completely different game
Could you accept that your organisation’s strategic challenges probably won’t be solved by yet another rollout project? Do you wish your organisation would stop wasting its energy pushing solutions that no one wants?
If you respond positively to those questions, you’re ready for a new kind of approach to strategy, change, and leadership.
Agendashift’s difference: how we think about outcomes. Not as numbers, not as sales pitches for solutions, but as the key to finding the right solutions at the right time and in the right way. Not just game-changing for engagement, a completely different game:
New kinds of
conversations
Conversations in the language of needs, obstacles, and outcomes
Adaptive
strategy
Systems primed for learning, outcomes organised for impact and alignment
Innovation
at the edges
Strategy turned to action, brought to life by the people closest to the problem
Business agility
at every scale
Through self-sustaining transformation becoming a Deliberately Adaptive Organisation
Directly and through our partners, we take this engaging and resolutely outcome-oriented stance to our work around the world in strategy, culture, and transformation. If it can be effective in organisations large and small – private companies, tech giants, the not-for-profit sector, and government departments and agencies – let’s see how it might work for you!
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 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 framework to be imposed 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, “strategy and leadership for the transforming organisation”), 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)
Below: Headlines | Agendashift Academy | Books | Partners | Framework & Resources | Assessments | Sitemap
Headlines
Blog
- Announcing 15-minute FOTO version 11
- Agendashift roundup, October 2021
- The 1967 Manifesto for The Deliberately Adaptive Organisation
- Get unstuck and get going: Starting small with 5% and 15% outcomes
- Up and Down the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation
- Celebration-5W version 6, “your next big breakthrough”
- All Agendashift assessments now available in Korean
More: Blog | Monthly roundups | Classic posts (blog.agendashift.com)
Media
The Agendashift Delivery Assessment – starting conversations in business agility
Smidig meetup (Norway)
Up and Down the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation
#bacommunity webinar series, Blackmetric Business Solutions
Leading and Transforming with Outcomes
Kanban New Zealand - the Limited-WiP-Society
Agendashift with Mike Burrows
Agile Uprising Podcast with Claudia Orozco-Gomez & Jay Hrcsko, agileuprising.libsyn.com
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)
More: Media
Agendashift Academy
Leadership and strategy in the transforming organisation
Powered by Agendashift, transformational leadership development for the transforming organisation.
Self-paced training and interactive workshops for every level of experience:
Foundation
New conversations and new kinds of conversation, inside out
Intermediate
Aligning to strategic customer needs, outside in
Advanced
Cultivating a wholehearted and deliberately adaptive organisation
- Leading with Outcomes (self‑paced)
- Outside-in Strategy with Outcomes1 (self‑paced)
- Transforming with Outcomes2 (self‑paced)
- Coaching with Outcomes (interactive)
- Strategic Mapping with Outcomes (interactive)
- Probe! Ideation & Experimentation (interactive)
- Succeeding with Outcomes2 (interactive)
1From autumn 2021
More:
Events (scheduled public classes and more)
External:
Agendashift Academy (academy.agendashift.com)
| The Deliberately Adaptive Organisation (deliberately-adaptive.org)
Books
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
The Agendashift partner programme
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.
Sitemap
- About Agendashift
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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)
- Agendashift as framework
- 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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