Model overview: Discovery

Discovery: Getting a shared sense of where we’d like to get to, identifying needs, ambitions and aspirations as well as shorter-term outcomes.

The Core Agendashift workshop includes the following Discovery exercises (with their related models/inspirations):

• Celebration-5W – context, future focus
• Agendashift True North and its obstacles (Lean and Agile)
• 15-minute FOTO (Clean Language)
• Plan on a Page (Lean Change)

Deep Dive workshops may add these and/or other related exercises/topics:

• Culture, values, and Systems Thinking (Schein)

We call the underlying generative pattern expressed in Discovery (and again in Exploration) ‘IdOO’, a mnemonic for Ideal, Obstacles, and Outcomes:

• Ideal (or Ideal best): In some established context, a lightly guided reflection on some provided or harvested generative image or adaptive challenge.
• Obstacles: What stops that? What gets in the way? See the blog post The language of outcomes: 2. Framing obstacles for thoughts on the use of language here.
• Outcomes: As with obstacles (and relative to them, and perhaps identifying further obstacles in the process), outcomes are generated, not prescribed. 15-minute FOTO is one way of generating them; it does it efficiently enough that they typically need organising afterwards.

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Related

• About Agendashift
• partner directory and Agendshift assessments
• The book: Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation (2018)
• Resources, in particular:
  • Celebration-5W
  • Agendashift True North
  • 15-minute FOTO
• Channel #workshops in the Agendashift Slack