Workshops: Strategic Mapping with Outcomes

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PLEASE NOTE: These workshop pages are no longer maintained.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:

• Leading with Outcomes Assessment Debrief Workshop
• Leading with Outcomes Discovery Workshop
• Adaptive Organisation Workshop
• Outside-in Strategy Review Workshop

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.

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This 2-hour hands-on workshop covers mapping and other visualisation techniques employed in our longer workshops. In Agendashift, Mapping is the bridge between Agendashift’s two generative patterns:

1. Organising outcomes generated by occurrences of the Ideal, Obstacles, Outcomes (IdOO) pattern and as a medium for the ongoing work of the Discovery and Exploration activities
2. To help manage the process of Right-to-Left Strategy Deployment, reflecting priorities and other thinking as it evolves

No quadrants or clusters will be (ab)used in this workshop!

Exercises

Setup:

• Challenge Mapping, bootstrapping the outcomes used in later exercises
• Plan on a Page, the simple visualisation used in Discovery

Then the “string” of exercises defined for the Mapping activity, each exercise both valuable in its own right and making its successor easier:

• The Cynefin Four Points Contextualisation exercise (Snowden), introduced under the pseudonym Option Approach Mapping
• Option Relationship Mapping (Keogh/Scotland, Wardley), previously known as Reverse Wardley Mapping
• Pathway Mapping (User Story Mapping meets the Reverse STATIK model)

and here

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