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Core activities: Exploration

Exploration: Identifying opportunities for change; recognising appropriate change management approaches.

As a workshop session:

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

As practiced once already in Discovery, at the heart of Exploration is the generative pattern Ideal, Obstacles, Outcomes (IdOO):

  • Ideal (or Ideal best): In a context already established, a lightly guided reflection on some provided or harvested generative image or adaptive challenge, here each prioritised assessment prompt. “What’s it like when it’s working at its ideal best? What new stories could you tell?”
  • Obstacles“What stops that? What gets in the way?” – see also Good Obstacle, Bad Obstacle for tips on raising the quality of obstacles
  • Outcomes: 15-minute FOTO again (this time the Classic edition), with the resulting outcomes organised in the Mapping activity

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Agendashift™ is brought to you by Agendashift Ltd (formerly Positive Incline Ltd), UK-based specialists in leadership, engagement, strategy, and change. Founder Mike Burrows came to prominence in the Lean-Agile community as the originator 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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