About Agendashift™

We keep asking this simple but radical question:

What if we put agreement on outcomes ahead of solutions?

Emphasising authentic agreement and meaningful outcomes – needs met, happy endings to stories, the world changed meaningfully for someone – that question is the foundation for a fresh approach to change, transformation, strategy, and leadership.

In the vanguard of a new category, the engagement model

You can’t upgrade your organisation like you’re upgrading your email server! Traditional change management’s track record on cultural and other adaptive challenges is so disastrous that it’s time to carve out a new category.

If any of those jobs are yours too, you’d want an approach that encourages engagement, not destroys it! Agendashift puts authentic agreement on outcomes ahead of solutions, a simple but radical change in perspective with profound implications.

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Outcomes all the way down, outcome-oriented

Agendashift deals coherently, humanely, and strategically with outcomes – everything from the most aspirational of goals to the impact of the smallest experiment. These outcomes are agreed through participation, the right people in the room agreeing authentically on outcomes relevant and meaningful to them, articulating them in their own words, organising them into strategy.

Approached this way, outcomes give direction, they give people something to organise around, they provide measures of success, and they give focus to innovation. Putting them first creates the space for solutions to emerge from the people closest to the problem.

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Mission: growing wholehearted and Deliberately Adaptive organisations

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.

And removing what stands in the way of becoming a Deliberately Adaptive Organisation, business agility at every scale:

More: Wholehearted | deliberately-adaptive.org

What Agendashift provides

Framework

The framework comprises:

• Two key generative patterns
• Five core activities
• A golden thread, the language of outcomes

We make a point of celebrating our models, sources, and inspirations. We’re working at the exciting intersection of strategy, organisation development, and (Lean-Agile) delivery – helping each other grow in scope and capability, raising our game individually and collectively.

More: Agendashift as framework

Toolkit, resources, books

A toolkit of workshop materials, models, practices, templates, assessments, etc – many of our tools open source and available for download via our resources page, popular with coaches, consultants, facilitators, and trainers around the world.

Other supporting material, not least the books:

• Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation (2nd edition 2021) – describing a resolutely outcome-oriented approach to change and transformation, a book aimed mainly at practitioners
• Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile (2019, audiobook 2020) – again, a resolutely outcome-oriented approach, taken this time to the whole Lean-Agile landscape, a highly readable book for all ‘digital leaders’ – expert practitioner or otherwise

More: Resources

Workshops

Our workshops come in three main families, available both publicly and in private, in person and online:

1. Transformation strategy workshops – our classic Core and Deep Dive workshops, framework-agnostic, and designed to launch or reinvigorate your Lean-Agile transformation and to help raise your game as practitioner and/or leader
2. Outside-in strategy workshops, including Wholehearted:OKR and the shorter, more product-focussed Impact! workshop – whenever it’s time to review and refresh your strategy, whatever your organisational scope
3. Short training workshops broken out from our longer workshops, standalone opportunities to learn and practice particular skills and techniques

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Partners

If you represent an organisation, you can engage us directly or through our global network of partners. If you’re a practitioner yourself, become a partner! Not that these two relationships are mutually exclusive: several of our practitioner partners work internally, and service providers can join as corporate partners too.

More: Become an Agendashift partner

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Related

• Agendashift Academy
• About Agendashift
  • Our mission: Wholehearted
  • Agendashift partner directory
  • Become an Agendashift partner
  • Agendashift Assessments and Free trial
  • Subscribe
• 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
  • Generative patterns
  • Core activities
  • Models, sources, and inspirations
  • Agendashift Workshops
• The Agendashift blog (blog.agendashift.com)
  • Monthly roundups
  • Classic posts
• Agendashift communities on Slack and LinkedIn
• Resources