New online workshops added to a reorganised portfolio

Rather than post the next installment in the Doing Agendshift Online series this week, it seemed sensible to wait until after next week’s public workshop and after that share some of the new things we’re trying.

Meanwhile, far from using this enforced period online as an excuse to withdraw, we’ve been working hard to round out the overall offering. The result: two new short training workshops (both of them online-first of course) triggering a reorganisation of the portfolio.

One wholehearted engagement model, three workshop families:

The transformation strategy workshops that we’re best known for
The outside-in strategy workshops that take us deeper into strategy deployment  – still highly compatible with Lean and Agile but less about them
A set of complementary short training workshops, more skills-focussed than organisation-focussed

With the two new short training workshops, Mapping with Outcomes, and Implementing your OI-SDR (more on those in a moment), this structure doesn’t seem like overkill. Here’s the relevant bits of sitemap:

The workshops:

Transformation strategy – Core, Applied, and Deep Dive:

Core Agendashift: Facilitating Outcome-Oriented Change
Applied Agendashift: Co-Creating Your Transformation Strategy
Agendashift Deep Dive: Coaching and Leading Continuous Transformation


Outside-in strategy – OI-SR (the generic platform on which the other two are built), Impact!, and Wholehearted:OKR:

Outside-in strategy review (OI-SR)
Impact! Story, strategy, and outcomes for products and services
Wholehearted:OKR – Bringing OKR to life with Agendashift


Short training workshops – one to two online sessions of up to 2 hours each:

Agendashift Online: Learning the language of outcomes
Mapping with Outcomes
Implementing your Outside-in Service Delivery Review (OI-SDR)

The new short training workshops

We’ve been doing Learning the language of outcomes online since last summer (see the calendar below for dates, with more added recently). The first of the two new additions is a natural follow-on to that:

04 June – one 2-hour session, Europe time zone:

Mapping with Outcomes (Europe)

It covers the following:

A quick reprise of Plan on a Page, the simple visualisation used in  Discovery
The “string” of exercises defined for the  Mapping activity, each exercise valuable both in its own right and for 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 Reverse STATIK)


An introduction to Changeban  and its simple kanban system for managing a portfolio of experiments

The second addition, Implementing your Outside-in Service Delivery Review (OI-SDR) complements the strategy workshops. It’s about how you set yourself up for success, before or after the strategy workshop – ie groundwork or follow-through – or as a standalone exercise in organisation design. Its agenda will resonate with anyone who has read Right to Left:

Thinking in circles:

Interlinked circles of responsibility
Concentric circles of alignment


Metrics:

Performance measures
Health indicators


Stories, hypotheses, and experiments:

Framing for maximum learning
Focussing for maximum leverage


The nuts and bolts of the OI-SDR meeting:

Agenda:

Outside in (customer & environment first), then
Right to left (outcome first)


Protocols, participation, and preparation

Initially at least, we’ll be offering this workshop only privately before deciding whether (and how) to make it available publicly. Do this workshop with your colleagues and you will be well on your way to implementing your own OI-SDR successfully. With that, you will be building into your organisation design some powerful expectations: that experimentation will always be happening, that the strategy will be advancing, that service continues to improve, and that intelligence and insights will be shared – all of this in a structure specifically designed to create leadership opportunities and to cause misalignments to reveal themselves.

Finally, a reminder that we make all our workshop materials available to partners for use with their clients. It’s easy and inexpensive to join; details here.

Upcoming online workshops

All online, and all with your truly (Mike Burrows) unless otherwise specified:

22-23 April – two 2-hour sessions, Europe time zone:

Learning the language of outcomes (Europe)
NEW! 28-29 April – two 2-hour sessions, Americas time zone:

Learning the language of outcomes (Americas)
NEW! 14-15 May – two 2-hour sessions, APAC time zone:

Learning the language of outcomes (APAC)
18-19 May, – Europe time zone:

Wholehearted:OKR – Bringing OKR to life with Agendashift (Europe)

Mike Burrows ,  Kjell Tore Guttormsen ,  Halldor Kvale-Skattebo
NEW! 04 June – one 2-hour session, Europe time zone:

Mapping with Outcomes (Europe)
17-18 June – two 2-hour sessions, Americas time zone:

Learning the language of outcomes (Americas)

For the latest workshop and speaking events check the Agendashift events calendar.

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