In this edition: Right to Left; Announcing two new workshops; New versions of Changeban, Featureban, and 15-minute FOTO; Upcoming: London, Istanbul, Berlin, and online; Top posts
Right to Left
It is still only six weeks since Right to Left launched! This month, a series of five 5-minute interviews – thank you Matthias Tölken of the Xuviate community! Details here:
Also:
- An epub version for Google Play, Apple, Kobo, etc is imminent
- Yes, an audiobook is looking increasingly likely
Announcing two new workshops
By some margin, this month’s top post was about a topic of active discussion in the Agendashift Slack, namely Objectives and Key Results (OKR):
To quote that post (a thought echoed also in Helpfully subversive about frameworks):
… OKR has something in common with Agile process frameworks: how you approach the framework matters very much more than the choice of framework itself.
That places OKR very much in Agendashift territory, and I’m glad to announce a new workshop, the product of a collaboration with (among others) Agendashift partners Karl Scotland and Steven Mackenzie. It will be available for client work in the coming weeks, and there will be public workshops in the new year.
For the record, I’ve put a page up for it already, though it doesn’t say much more than I’ve said here already:
Alongside that, another new Agendashift workshop. In common with the OKR one, it doesn’t assume that the focus is necessarily on things Lean or Agile (though it is of course 100% compatible with those Lean-Agile sensibilities). This one focuses directly on products and services, not just their delivery:
I’m excited about both of these workshops. Compared to the practitioner-focussed transformation strategy workshops (excluding the Applied one, for clients), they make few assumptions about the participants and should be highly accessible. Outcome-orientation – and some strategic thinking – for everyone!
New versions of Changeban, Featureban, and 15-minute FOTO
This month I did two Advanced workshops in quick succession, Stockholm and Athens on consecutive weeks. Somehow this always seems to amplify the feedback and I’m taking the opportunity to make some changes, some impacting our open source resources.
Watch this space and the relevant Slack channels for further announcements, but in brief:
- For Changeban and Featureban, a change to the order in which the rules are introduced, and switching the colours. I’ll be testing the first change at the Advanced workshop in London later this week and at a meetup beforehand. The second change necessitates updates to the printed cards if you’re using them (you can also use playing cards), so I’ll make two distinct releases.
- For 15-minute FOTO, a new introductory playing mode, and some quick forays from outcome space back in to obstacle space (making it more fractal). Both changes will necessitate an update to the cue card but I’ll test it first without.
Upcoming: London, Istanbul, Berlin, and online
- 3-4 October, London, UK:
2-day Advanced Agendashift workshop: Coaching and Leading Continuous Transformation - 15-16 October, online, two 2-hour sessions, mornings UK time:
Agendashift online: Learning the language of outcomes - 26th October (changed from the 23rd), Istanbul, Turkey:
1-day Core Agendashift workshop: Facilitating outcome-oriented change - 13-14 November, Berlin, Germany:
2-day Advanced Agendashift workshop: Coaching and Leading Continuous Transformation - 5-6 December, online, two 2-hour sessions, afternoons UK time:
Agendashift online: Learning the language of outcomes
Top posts
- There will be caveats: Warming cautiously to OKR
- Helpfully subversive about frameworks
- Right to Left in five 5-minute videos
- What kind of Organisational Development (OD)? (And a book recommendation) (May)
- It’s out! Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile
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