Agendashift roundup, June 2024

In this edition: Organising Conversations; Leading in a Transforming Organisation and TTT/F; Conferences; Olivier’s phylogenetic study; Top posts

Organizing Conversations

Organizing Conversations, my fourth book, has been out for four weeks now. If you missed the original announcement, it includes a short video interview I did with series editor Gervase Bushe:

“Organizing Conversations” is now out

More recently:

A taste of my own medicine: Why “Organizing Conversations” took two and a half years to write

And a longer interview for the Agile Uprising podcast (thank you Jay!):

Organizing Conversations with Mike Burrows

On that last one I couldn’t resist mentioning book 5, but more on that in the months to come. Meanwhile, your Amazon ratings and reviews on book 4 would be most gratefully received!

Leading in a Transforming Organisation and TTT/F

Two weeks after doing it in Berlin (thank you Markus Hipelli), this week I was in London for Leading in a Transforming Organisation, my last public training until after an extended summer break. Across the two sessions, here’s how participants summarised it:

A human-centred way of understanding organisations, teams of teams, and teamsChallenges you to look at organisations and their dysfunctions in a new and refreshing wayThe only “3D” training on modern organisation and operating models out there!Addressing the real issues within the orgGreat approach to ensuring meaningful change in your companyGeneralised approach to collaborative org design and coachingBrain food!

See also this longer feedback from Chris Combe on LinkedIn.

The “3D” term above isn’t mine but I was very pleased to see it. Most of what we do in Leading in a Transforming Organisation is orthogonal and complementary to team-centric and process-centric approaches, taking you into different organisational dimensions. When it comes to strategy, organisation, and certain crucial aspects of leadership, most Agile training barely scratches the surface.

The next one will be in Southampton in October:

22-24 October, Barclays Eagle Labs, Southampton, UK:
Leading in a Transforming Organisation (Southampton)

Before that, there will be an online TTT/F, and I’m planning some significant updates to the material before then (past participants can re-attend for free, and there’s a 60% discount for part attendees of Leading in a Transforming Organisation also):

30 September to 03 October, four 4-hour sessions online, afternoons UK time:
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F)

Note the four consecutive afternoons there – I’m experimenting with not splitting it over two weeks.

Likely rounding off the year training-wise, in December I’ll be doing another in-person one in Bangalore:

8-9 December, Bengaluru, India:
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F) (innovationroots.com)Conferences

That trip to Bangalore coincides with Kanban India, and with a brand new talk I’m very glad to be keynoting there again! You can register for that here:

6-7 December, Bengaluru, India
Kanban India 2024

The autumn conference season kicks off for me in early October:

October 8-9, online:
Project to Product Summit 2024 Olivier’s phylogenetic study

The number of Adaptive Organisation assessments submitted for Olivier Bertrand’s PhD research exceeds 50, but twice that many would be great! To participate, visit Survey: Phylogenetic research study: Adaptive Organisation Assessment. Be assured that no personally identifying information will be shared without permission, and any subsequent communication will be on an opt-in basis. You can read the original announcement here: Help our research: an “Organisational DNA test”.

If you’ve done one already and would like to submit another for a different organisation, either register with a different email or ping me and and I’ll invite you to an alternative survey.

Top posts “Organizing Conversations” is out on Kindle (May) A taste of my own medicine: Why “Organizing Conversations” took two and a half years to write (June) My favourite Clean Language question (January 2019) Agile’s Great Rebalancing: My next book’s take on the Agile manifesto (April) From Flow to Business Agility (January)

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“Leadership and strategy in the transforming organisation”

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Leading with Outcomes: Foundation Inside-out Strategy (I): On the same page, with purpose Inside-out Strategy (II): Fit for maximum impact Adaptive Organisation (I): Business agility at every scale Adaptive Organisation (II): Between spaces, scopes, and scales Outside-in Strategy: Positioned for success

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