You know how it goes: somewhere there’s a desire for change, but somehow it just isn’t happening.

And so you find yourself facing three universal challenges:

1. Cynicism and disengagement – the legacy of past attempts at change
2. Same old, same old – hidden systems reinforcing old behaviours, driving the same old results
3. Innovation stifled – the wrong decisions made at the wrong time by the wrong people

Familiar? You shouldn’t be surprised: traditional approaches to change make these problems worse, not better. That’s our motivation to provide a real and practical alternative, helping organisations succeed at developing and pursuing the kinds of strategy that go hand-in-hand with transformation.

We follow three guiding principles:

1. Keep asking the agreement on outcomes question:

   What if we put agreement on outcomes before solutions?

2. Keep bringing outcomes to the foreground
3. Keep finding new places for strategy to happen

These are leadership strategies, strategies for getting better at strategy, meta strategies if you like. Having the kinds of conversations that too often get missed, working backwards (“right to left”) from key moments of impact and learning, and engaging with your organisation in all of its complexity – developing business agility at every scale.

Just trying them out – in one of our workshops perhaps – is enough to generate something of real business value. Work at them for just a little while longer and the transformation process is already underway. As for scale, that depends on who’s invited, and we can help with that too.

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 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 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 at every level 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 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 (“leadership and strategy 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

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Self-paced, video-based training

There is no challenge quite like being a leader in a transforming organisation. If you find yourself in that position, you aspire to that role, or you support others in that journey, then the Agendashift Academy's core curriculum Leading with Outcomes is for you.

Module availability:

• Leading with Outcomes: Foundation – available now
• Inside-out Strategy: Fit for maximum impact – available now
• Outside-in Strategy: Positioned for success – rolls out in installments from June 2022
• Adaptive Organisation: Business agility at every scale – due autumn 2022

Subscriptions: Affordable plans for businesses and individuals, with yearly and monthly options.

We will announce train-the-facilitator and train-the-trainer programmes shortly, again with options for businesses and individuals.

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Blog

• Agendashift roundup, June 2022
• New from the Outside-in Strategy department
• Resistance – or feedback?
• Agendashift roundup, May 2022
• On values, meaningfulness, and change – parallels with Bateson and Mead
• 15-minute FOTO, version 12
• Big changes for the Agendashift Academy
• What I really think about Kanban

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Read the book, now in its second edition:

Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation
Mike Burrows, (2^nd 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)

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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:

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