Engagement model
Agendashift is an engagement model, a framework for agents of participatory change and transformation. The framing there is deliberate: we distance ourselves from the failed solution-driven change management models of the last century and don’t wish to be numbered among them! Neither is Agendashift a model only for continuous improvement, a process that while necessary is not a substitute for strategy.
Outcome-oriented
Agendashift is outcome-oriented to the extent that this is its defining feature. It’s “outcomes all the way down”, dealing coherently, humanely, and strategically with everything from the most aspirational of goals to the impact of the smallest experiment. With outcomes generated, organised, and developed through participation, agreement on outcomes follows naturally; solutions come as they should on a just-in-time basis.
Wholehearted
We – Agendashift’s founders, partners, and supporters – are wholehearted in our commitments to participation, to outcomes, and beyond those to the wholeheartedness of the organisations with which we work. We strive to develop all the qualities of wholeheartedness, building organisations that create meaning continuously, through both their discourse and their ability to anticipate and meet needs.
Helping you navigate the work of strategy, change, and transformation:
Framework
A coherent framework – principles, patterns, activities, and a golden thread: the language of outcomes
Toolkit
Workshop, coaching, and assessment tools, many of our resources released open source (CC-BY-SA)
Models
Celebrating our sources: Lean-Agile, Cynefin, Clean Language, Solutions Focus, Lean Startup, OKR, and more
Workshops
Integrated online workshops facilitated by us, a partner, or (via our partner programme), yourself
Headlines from blog.agendashift.com:
- #2MBM: Meaning before Metric, Measure before Method
- Agendashift roundup, June 2020
- I’m really enjoying Challenge Mapping
- Outcomes all the way down
- Probe!
- Revisiting ‘wholehearted’
- My kind of…
- The audiobook is out! Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile
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Workshops
As described in the book Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation (2018) and resourced through the Agendashift partner programme, four transformation strategy workshops:
- Core Agendashift: Facilitating Outcome-Oriented Change
- Applied Agendashift: Co-Creating Your Transformation Strategy
- Agendashift Deep Dive: Coaching and Leading Continuous Transformation
New for 2020, two outside-in (customer/environment-first) strategy workshops leveraging the outside-in strategy review as described in Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile:
- Impact! Story, Strategy, and Outcomes for Products and Services
- Wholehearted:OKR – Integrating strategy, development, and delivery
And a growing portfolio of shorter training workshops – 1 or 2 sessions of up to 2 hours:
- Learning the Language of Outcomes
- Strategic Mapping with Outcomes
- Probe! Stories, Hypotheses, Challenges, and Experiments
- Implementing your Outside-in Service Delivery Review (OI-SDR)
Facilitated by an Agendashift partner, workshops are run both publicly and privately. Other workshops based on our tools and materials:
- Outside-in strategy reviews, service delivery reviews, etc
- Training workshops, based on (for example) our simulation games Changeban or Featureban
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Upcoming
Core Agendashift: Facilitating outcome-oriented change
Mike Burrows
Agendashift Deep Dive: Coaching and leading continuous transformation
Mike Burrows
Learning the language of outcomes (EMEA)
Julia Wester
Learning the language of outcomes (APAC)
Mike Burrows
Strategic Mapping with Outcomes (EMEA)
Mike Burrows
Learning the language of outcomes (Americas)
Mike Burrows
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Agendashift partners
Corporate partners:
You’ll find dozens of individual practitioners in more than 20 countries worldwide listed in our partner directory. 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 starting point of our wholehearted mission is authentic engagement on issues that matter, and an Agendashift assessment is an important way to kick-start that conversation.
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.
If you aren’t yet working with the support of a partner, you may still commission a full survey via the Agendashift Unbenchmarking Service. Interpreting the results will be largely up to you, but you’ll be helped by our machine learning model which identifies potential areas of opportunity for you automatically.
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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 (2018) 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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