Workshops: Agendashift Deep Dive: Coaching and Leading Continuous Transformation

PLEASE NOTE: These workshop pages are no longer maintained. From the Agendashift Academy site please see instead these standalone workshops addressing different aspects of organisation development and deliverable by authorised facilitators and trainers alike:

Deliverable by authorised trainers only:

Leading in a Transforming Organisation

Assuming meaningful interest in the issues under consideration (i.e. “skin in the game”), they are suitable for participants of all levels of experience. Some stakeholder involvement may be valuable also.

If interested in holding any of the above workshops or hosting Leading in a Transforming Organisation as public training, Contact us.

The Agendashift Deep Dive workshop ‘Coaching and leading continuous transformation’ is the Agendashift engagement model delivered in the form a highly immersive 2-day workshop. It is aimed at coaches, consultants, and managers wishing to:

Develop their coaching and leadership skills in the areas of enquiry, facilitation, strategy deployment, and change leadership
Broaden and deepen their appreciation of the Lean-Agile landscape and related bodies of knowledge and their strategic application to organisational development

It is run both publicly and privately; see the Events calendar for upcoming public workshops.

Who should attend?

The Deep Dive workshop is aimed at all agents and leaders of organisational change – whether internal or external, specialist practitioner or sponsor. Whilst the majority of attendees have been coaches and consultants, a significant number have held managerial and business leadership roles.

Public workshops are focussed primarily on skills. You will however have ample opportunity to put them into your organisational context and demonstrate Agendashift’s ability to meet organisational needs in ways such as these:

Launching, refocusing, or reenergising continuous transformation in your organisation
Enhancing your organisation’s internal coaching and change management capability
Embedding outcome-orientation and continuous transformation through leadership development

Private workshops allow greater emphasis on producing of artefacts of real value to the organisation. Their production involves both new conversations and new kinds of conversation, and we look for opportunities to sustain those beyond the workshop itself.

Workshop Outcomes

Practice in a range of outcome-oriented facilitation techniques
Recognition of the role of outcome orientation in the modern organisation
Understanding of the integration of techniques and concepts from Lean-Agile, Kanban, Clean Language, Cynefin, Lean Startup, and A3
Awareness of the power of feedback loops in organisational behaviour and evolution

Participants in most public workshops (and private workshops by arrangement) will receive a print copy of the book Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation (2nd edition 2021).

Workshop facilitation

Your facilitator will be one of our most experienced partners, either Agendashift founder Mike Burrows or a close collaborator.

Workshop overview

1. Discovery: Describing where we'd like to get to

Exploring organisational context, objectives, obstacles, and outcomes using these Core exercises:

This structure provides a great example of the generative pattern Ideal, Obstacles, Outcomes (IdOO). Additional material/exercises may cover:

Adaptive challenges
X-Matrix / TASTE

2. Exploration: Prospecting for opportunities

The opportunity to practice skills acquired in Discovery and to reinforce the IdOO pattern:

Agendashift delivery assessment – either set as prework or done in the workshop
Survey debrief
Ideal / Obstacles
15-minute FOTO (Classic)

Additional material/exercises may cover:

Challenge Mapping
Culture & Systems Thinking
Empathy & framing
Applicability

3. Mapping: Building a visual transformation plan

The output of Exploration fed through a “string” of complementary mapping exercises:

Option Approach Mapping (not its real name)
Option Relationship Mapping
Pathway Mapping

Additional material/exercises may cover:

Complexity theory and its application
Other mapping and strategy tools
Strategy model reconciliations

4. Elaboration: Framing actions, testing our thinking & 5. Operation: Change as real work

The culture, practice, and organisation of Right-to-Left Strategy Deployment:

Changeban (I): A process of knowledge discovery
Changeban (II): Double loop learning
Options to experiments
Experiment A3
The Meaning, Measure, Method pattern

Optionally:

Stories, situations of need, and hypotheses
Challenge Mapping
The Agendashift adaptability assessment
[Outside-in Service Delivery Review (OI-SDR)] and Outside-in Strategy Review (OI-SR) meetings

See also the separate workshop Implementing your Outside-in Service Delivery Review (OI-SDR) and the family of outside-in strategy workshops.

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