Announcing a new Adaptive Organisation workshop (and more)

Announcing:

The immediate availability of the Leading with Outcomes Adaptive Organisation workshop

And closely related to that:

Adaptive Organisation (II): Between spaces, scopes and scales, v2.1 betaUpdates on Leading in a Transforming Organisation, ManchesterNew experience/practice sessions begin next week1. Announcing the immediate availability of the Leading with Outcomes Adaptive Organisation Workshop

This new 1-day workshop takes the two-part Adaptive Organisation training module (two days of training when done in person, three days when taken with Foundation) and dials down the training dimension to make it all about the conversations your organisation needs to have with itself.

It follows much the same structure as the training:

IntroductionDelivery-Discovery-Renewal – value-creating work and how it is coordinated and organisedAdaptive Strategising – keeping us in the game, strategising and self-governing Mutual Trust Building – addressing the formal organisation’s deficit in information and decision-making capacityBetween and Across Scales – examining the relationships between scales of organisationOrganising at Human Scale – promoting adaptation, innovation, and learning at all scalesWhat Lies Beneath – dealing with organisational constraints

Points 1-5 above each correspond to a section of the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation assessment, and we’ll be working with that, making this a thorough health-check for your organisation. Per this recent blog post, the final part of the workshop takes it all forward into action, via some very interesting new tools for identifying and visualising organisational constraints.

The material has already been made available to authorised Leading with Outcomes facilitators and trainers. For myself, I am pleased to offer it in the form of a private, 1-day, in-person workshop. I charge a fixed rate for anywhere in mainland UK, and I make things as easy as I can for European destinations easily reachable from Manchester or East Midlands airport also. Outside those parameters – further afield, online, or spread over multiple days – let’s see what we can work out.

2. Adaptive Organisation (II): Between spaces, scopes and scales, v2.1 beta

I have already mentioned the two-part Adaptive Organisation training module on which the new workshop is based. This second announcement relates to its presentation in the form of online, video-based, self-paced training at the Agendashift Academy. Following on from Adaptive Organisation (I): Business agility at every scale (v2.0 beta), I have released the first chapter of Adaptive Organisation (II): Between spaces, scopes and scales (v2.1 beta). Still to come: two more chapters and an “interlude” (one of two windows into the in-person Leading in a Transforming Organisation). The beta tag will disappear when I’ve released all the videos and done their captions (still in progress for part I) and student workbook. Part I will at some point be re-recorded at version 2.1 or later but there is no great rush to do so – the two parts remain compatible.

Part I develops the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation, a model to describe any organisational scope at any scale (or many/all such scopes all at once!). Part II pays attention to issues of scale:

Relationships between scopes at different scales – between team and team-of-teams for exampleThe difficulty with which organisations adapt as scale increasesIdentifying and managing organisational constraints 3. Updates on Leading in a Transforming Organisation: Manchester, 14-16 November

This will be my most diverse group yet at a public training. Thanks to staff from the NHS and two universities (three if you count former staff), it’s quite possible that consultants, coaches, and trainers won’t be in the majority. An experience to savour I think!

New this time: with some additional study, this event allows prospective trainers (not only facilitators) to bypass Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F); further information about that on the event page.

The material (shared with Adaptive Organisation parts I & II) can be considered well-tested now, even a joy to teach! Between London, Melbourne, and my preparations for Manchester, each of the two parts fits comfortably in a day, and they take things more consistently in an emergence and complexity-friendly way, which is to say bottom-up. Not that it was ever top-down, but making it more consistent has definitely added to its impact.

While still in Melbourne I wrote up two changes:

15-minute FOTO’s cheat mode What Lies Beneath (Spoiler: Constraints)

And the Manchester event itself:

14-16 November, Manchester, UK:
Leading in a Transforming Organisation: Engaging with complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation (20% discount with coupon code BLOG20 has been applied to this link – ping me if you believe other discounts may apply)4. New experience/practice sessions begin next week

Next week, the first of what will become a monthly fixture:

26 October, online, 15:00BST, 16:00CEST, 10am EDT:
Experience/practice session: Deliberately Adaptive Organisation assessment

A different assessment tool each month, and we’re starting with the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation assessment (mini edition), a version of the one used in all the Adaptive Organisation workshop and training products mentioned in this post. A great way to get a firsthand impression of what it’s all about!

Upcoming events

With me (Mike Burrows) unless otherwise indicated:

October:

26 October, online, 15:00BST, 16:00CEST, 10am EDT:
Experience/practice session: Deliberately Adaptive Organisation assessment

November:

09 November, online, 15:00GMT, 16:00CST, 10am ET:
Free webinar/AMA: Where to start? Where next? 09 November, online meetup, 11:30GMT, 12:30CST, 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: Engaging with complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation 23 November, online, 15:00GMT, 16:00CET, 10am ET:
Experience/practice session: The Agendashift Delivery assessment

December:

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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