The time to take a close look at 1) your strategy and 2) your ways of working is now. You need to do those together – integrated, wholeheartedly, no half measures. The place to do it is online. We’re here to help you.
This is #4 in a series of unspecified length, covering ways you can do Agendashifty things online (we have plenty of practice). And here, we really get to the heart of things.
Followers of this blog will know that 15-minute FOTO is our Clean Language-inspired coaching game, one of the highlights of any Agendashift workshop. You might even have guessed that this would be the 15-minute FOTO installment. You’re not wrong exactly, but first let’s see it in context.
Here it is in the Discovery session of the classic Core, Applied, or Deep Dive workshop, chapter 1 of the Agendashift book:
Same workshops, same book, but session/chapter 2, Exploration:
And now the Wholehearted:OKR workshop, different book (Right to Left), and the session Outside-in review (I):
And session Outside-in review (II):
Even if 1) the slides didn’t give the game away already and 2) I told you that there are two different flavours of 15-minute FOTO here and that sometimes we use a different tool entirely, you’d have no trouble recognising that there’s a pattern here.
I’m calling that pattern IdOO:
Doing IdOO online
See the past installment 2. Celebration-5W to understand how we facilitate online at least one of the ways we can can establish some business context ahead of any reflection.
See 3. The assessments for how participants prioritise the assessment prompts on which they will reflect. For Discovery, it’s even simpler: just share the Agendashift True North (see the Resources section below).
Then (and you’ll find these questions in the True North deck):
- When this is working at its ideal best for you, what’s that like?
- And when that’s happening, what new stories could you tell?
Those questions work really well 1-2-4-All style as described in the assessments installment – individual silent reflections followed by pairwise, table group, and debrief conversations (a good test of your breakout room skills if you’re using Zoom).
That’s IdOO’s Ideal reflection part done. Easy!
To identify Obstacles:
- What stops that? What gets in the way?
(See also The language of outcomes: 2. Framing obstacles)
Again, that’s straightforward enough. And again, 1-2-4-All works really well, except that this time those obstacles will need to be captured somehow when the conversation gets to table group level. Google Docs works great, but you’ll want to get documents set up and distributed ahead of time.
To generate Outcomes, you could just ask these questions with respect to the obstacles just captured:
- What would you like to have happen? (or your favourite equivalent)
- Then what happens? (asked a few times perhaps)
Even online, that’s temptingly easy. That would however be a huge opportunity missed. Instead of you asking the questions, how about your participants coach each other? That’s what 15-minute FOTO does, and both editions of the game (Lite and Classic) have versions specifically tailored for online use.
In some ways the online version is more efficient, with everyone joining in to help with the scribe’s task of capturing outcomes, clients as well as coaches able to refer to the notes (these roles rotate by the way). Especially if you’re facilitating it for the first time, don’t be afraid to join in – the Lite edition in particular includes a familiarisation phase.
Next time (not Monday, it being Easter) we’ll look at different ways those generated outcomes can be organised online.
Resources
All of these are open source (CC-BY-SA):
Become a partner for both the integrated workshop materials and the ability to administer the assessments described in the previous installment.
And the two books:
- Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation (2018)
- Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile (2019)
Upcoming online workshops
- 22-23 April – two 2-hour sessions on consecutive days (UK morning):
Agendashift Online: Learning the language of outcomes - 18-19 May – Kjell Tore Guttormsen & myself, two full days, Europe-friendly time
Wholehearted:OKR: Bringing OKR to life with Agendashift - 17-18-June, online – two 2-hour sessions on consecutive days (UK afternoon):
Agendashift Online: Learning the language of outcomes
Agendashift, the wholehearted engagement model
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