Agendashift roundup, September 2023

In this edition: Experience/practice sessions; Leading in a Transforming Organisation; December; Top posts

(New! Free!) Experience/Practice sessions

I have added two more dates to the calendar, the first experience/practice sessions of what should become a monthly fixture (series link):

26 October, online, 15:00BST, 16:00CEST, 10am EDT:
Experience/practice session: Deliberately Adaptive Organisation assessment 23 November, online, 15:00GMT, 16:00CET, 10am ET:
Experience/practice session: The Agendashift Delivery assessment

They’re a chance to try one of our famously inclusive, non-prescriptive, and framework-agnostic assessments (a different template each month) and to experience with others some post-assessment conversations, Agendashift-style.

Post-debrief conversations will follow the IdOO (“I do”) pattern – Ideal, Obstacles, Outcomes, for which materials based on Leading with Outcomes: Foundation will be provided. If, within that structure, you would like to take the brief opportunity to practice our Clean Language coaching game 15-minute FOTO (Academy version here), this should be possible, numbers permitting.

The free webinars continue to cycle through the three “questions that drive us” (series link). The next two of those:

17 October, online, 15:00BST, 16:00CEST, 10am EDT:
Free webinar/AMA: How do we keep outcomes in the foreground? 09 November, online, 15:00GMT, 16:00CST, 10am ET:
Free webinar/AMA: Where to start? Where next? Leading in a Transforming Organisation: Engaging with complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation

I’m both counting down the days to Australia and looking ahead to Manchester!

4-6 October, Melbourne, Australia:
Leading in a Transforming Organisation: Engaging with complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation 14-16 November, Manchester, UK
Leading in a Transforming Organisation: Engaging with complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation

This is where it’s happening in Agendashift-land right now. If you’re tired of approaches to organisational challenges that can’t see beyond process (and trust me, it’s liberating to get past that) and have little of consequence to say about complexity, get yourself to one of these if you possibly can.

I should mention that my trip to Australia – my first trip abroad since COVID – is thanks to Kanban Australia 2023. Thank you Daniel and the rest of the organising team!

Looking ahead to December

In early December I’m off to India for Kanban India and the last TTT/F of the year:

1-2 December, Bengaluru, India:
Kanban India 2023 3-4 December, Bengaluru, India:
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F)

And a thank you to Noopur, Prachi, and the rest of the organising team there too!

Top posts An invitation to a more thoughtful assessment (September) My favourite Clean Language question (January 2019) What I really think about Scrum (August 2020) Your organisation in 5 networks (November 2022) From Reverse STATIK to a ‘Pathway’ for continuous transformation (October 2019)

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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