An invitation to a more thoughtful assessment

All the organisational scopes you identify with

Before you begin, think about all the organisational scopes you identify with. Formally-recognised or otherwise, your scopes bring together people, their value-creating work, and a sense of shared identity. Yours might include:

Teams, teams-of-teams, or biggerScopes smaller than teamsCross-cutting scopes that intersect with multiple other scopes

Next, two kinds of “healthy and productive”:

Thinking about your scopes individually, how healthy and productive would you say they are?How healthy and productive would you say are the relationships between scopes?

To the assessment itself:

As you score each assessment prompt, try to choose a point on our four-point scale that’s representative of all of your scopesWhere that’s hard to do authentically, you can restrict yourself to the scope or scopes with which you identify you most stronglyDon’t worry about being inconsistent – ranges of experience, opinion, and perspective are just as interesting as consensus, and our process will make good use of both

That’s quite a change from “Choose a scope and stick to it”! Given its length, I don’t know that I would use it frequently outside the Adaptive Organisation assessment, but for that one, it’s more in keeping with the module of the same name’s “Start where you are, everywhere all at once” approach.

Experience the full version of the assessment for yourself via the Melbourne (October) or Manchester (November) editions of Leading in a Transforming Organisation, or the online module Adaptive Organisation (I): Business Agility at every scale. Or a private event! If the 3-day Leading in a Transforming Organisation would be infeasible, various shorter options are available, and a new 1-day Adaptive Organisation workshop is ready to test, and on favourable terms. If that could be of interest, get in touch.

Related

Adaptive Organisation (I): Business agility at every scale v2.0 beta (July) Start where you are (February) Your organisation in 5 networks (November 2022)Upcoming events

With me (Mike Burrows) unless otherwise indicated:

September:

12-20 September, online, Tuesday & Wednesday afternoons (UK time):
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer/Facilitator (TTT/F) 28 September, 18:00 BST, Sheffield, UK:
Between spaces, scopes, and scales: What the scaling frameworks don’t tell you

October:

4-6 October, Melbourne, Australia:
Leading in a Transforming Organisation 09 October, Melbourne, Australia:
Kanban Australia 2023 17 October, online, 15:00GMT, 16:00CET, 10am ET:
Free webinar/AMA: How do we keep outcomes in the foreground?

Later:

09 November, online meetup, 11:30 GMT, 12:30 CST, 06.30am ET:
Between spaces, scopes, and scales: What the scaling frameworks don’t tell you 14-16 November, Manchester, UK:
Leading in a Transforming Organisation 1-2 December, Bengaluru, India:
Kanban India 2023 3-4 December, Bengaluru, India:
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F)

Leading with Outcomes from the Agendashift Academy
“Leadership and strategy in the transforming organisation”

Leading with Outcomes is our modular curriculum in leadership and organisation development. Each module is available as self-paced online training or as private, instructor-led training (online or in-person). Certificates of completion or participation according to format. Its four modules in the recommended order:

Leading with Outcomes: Foundation Adaptive Organisation , two parts:Part I: Business agility at every scalePart II: Between spaces, scopes, and scales Inside-out Strategy: Fit for maximum impact Outside-in Strategy: Positioned for success

Individual subscriptions from £24.50 per month, business subscriptions from £269 per month, with discounts available on both kinds of plan for employees and employers in the government, healthcare, education, and non-profit sectors.

To deliver Leading with Outcomes yourself, see our Authorised Trainer and Authorised Facilitator programmes. Our next TTT/F trainings take place in September (online) and December (Bengaluru, India).

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