Agendashift roundup of the year 2023

Whether you have followed Agendashift and Leading with Outcomes over the years or have only just found us, thank you for your interest and support. As we approach the Christmas and New Year break, let me wish you a time of peace and renewal.

In this end-of-year edition: December looking forward; Top 10 posts of the year; Upcoming events (most of them free)

December looking forward

The usual monthly list of the top 5 most-read posts would overlap quite a bit with the year’s top 10, so instead I’ll point out just one recent post:

Confirming some changes to Leading with Outcomes (December)

As for the rest of the month, I have my fourth book to finish, and only then (though my head feels fit to burst) my fifth to start. Two very different books, their provisional titles:

Organizing Conversations: From inquiry to generative conversations – for the BMI series in dialogic organisation development, hence the American spellingWholehearted: Engaging with complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation

It would be quite something to get both books published in 2024, ten years since my first. Wish me luck! In relation to that second one, I have in the past couple of days updated the Everywhere all at once white paper to include a brief section on the recent What Lies Beneath stuff. You can request your copy here.

Of course 2024 won’t only be spent writing. Two modules of Leading with Outcomes still live on the old learning management system. Once their videos are re-recorded, I can consolidate everything onto the new platform. I’m looking forward also to doing more in-person training and workshops. I intend to put on the 3-day Leading in a Transforming Organisation publicly at least twice in the UK, hope to do it at least once in mainland Europe, and further afield as opportunities arise. Opportunities to do the private 1-day Adaptive Organisation workshop are materialising too; introductory pricing remains available for bookings taken in the next few weeks.

Top 10 posts of 2023

Most popular first, these are this year’s most-read posts:

#2MBM: Meaning before Metric, Measure before Method (July 2020) – the prototype for the Meaning, Measure, Method pattern that features now in every Leading with Outcomes module Your organisation in 5 networks (November 2022) – now part of the Leading with Outcomes module Adaptive Organisation (II) My favourite Clean Language question (January 2019) – the oldest post in this list, still a regular fixture on our monthly top 5 What Lies Beneath (Spoiler: Constraints) (October 2023) – only a few weeks old but already #4 for the year! Explaining the “unreasonable effectiveness” of Agile (July 2023) – expect more on this in the coming months 15-minute FOTO’s cheat mode (October 2023) – another recent entrant It’s 10 years since the post that changed my career (January 2023) – referring to the evergreen Introducing Kanban through its values (January 2013), the post that spawned my first book Start where you are (July 2023) – a twist on an old idea Sell the pain, not the solution, the theory, or the blame (December 2022) – a tip repeated several times across Leading with Outcomes; see also the March webinar below Avoiding the disaster that is ‘solution-driven’ (June 2023) – why outcome-orientation mattersUpcoming events (most of them free)

January:

11 January, online, 15:00 GMT, 16:00 CET, 10am ET:
Free webinar/AMA: How do we keep bringing outcomes in the foreground? 25 January, online, 15:00 GMT, 16:00 CET, 10am ET:
Experience/practice session: Adaptive Organisation assessment

February:

6-14 February, online, Tuesday & Wednesday afternoons (UK time):
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F) *15 February, online, 15:00 GMT, 16:00 CET, 10am ET:
Free webinar/AMA: Where to start? Where next? 22 February, online, 15:00 GMT, 16:00 CET, 10am ET:
Experience/practice session: Agendashift Delivery Assessment (mini edition)

March:

07 March, online, 15:00 GMT, 16:00 CET, 10am ET:
Free webinar/AMA: Obstacles Fast and Slow

*For the February TTT/F, ping me for coupon codes if any of the following apply:

Past TTT/F participants can join again for free (a popular perk)Past participants of Leading in a Transforming Organisation get 60% offEmployees in public sector, education, and non-profit organisations get 40% offMembers of the old partner programme get 30% offLast but not least, Agendashift Academy subscribers get subscription-specific discounts also

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