Our monthly webinar/AMA series “The questions that drive us” returns tomorrow to question #1:
What if we put agreement on outcomes before solutions?
Essentially, this is principle #1 framed as a question. Framing it that way makes it even less prescriptive than it would be otherwise and more likely to spark innovation. Moreover, asking it can be an act of leadership. Given the premature rush to solutions typical in most organisations and assuming at least some level of safety, that act of leadership will be available frequently to many.
I got back from India only yesterday afternoon, and while it is fresh in my mind, I thought it would be good to debrief Friday’s conference workshop and certain aspects of Sunday & Monday’s Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F). My plan is to visualise* the designs of multiple workshops to make more visible some of their inbuilt configuration options, and to highlight recent and planned improvements to the materials. In the spotlight will be some old favourites:
- Celebration-5W, our trusty context-capturing workshop kickoff exercise
- Agendashift True North and some alternatives
- Good Obstacle, Bad Obstacle
- 15-minute FOTO, our Clean Language-inspired coaching game
- Plan on a Page
- …and more
See Upcoming events below for the registration links for tomorrow’s event and others, most of them free. Tomorrow’s begins at 15:00 GMT, 16:00 CET, 10am ET, and will finish as usual with an AMA (Ask Mike Anything) session. Notice also that we have the next of our free experience/practice sessions a week later.
*That visualisation is still under construction, but the Picturing Foundation picture is working very well, so I leave you with that for now 🙂
Upcoming events
February
- 18 February, Online, 16:00 GMT, 17:00 CET, 11am ET, Agile Strategy Meetup Group:
Meet Mike Burrows on strategy - 24-27 February, four 4-hour sessions online, afternoons UK time:
Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F)*
March
- 06 March, London, UK:
Kanban Edge 2025
*TTT/F and (where shown) LIKE events include free one-year membership of the Leading with Outcomes Authorised Facilitator programme, upgradeable to Authorised Trainer at any time. Both of those include access to the video-based Leading with Outcomes training and the full range of Agendashift assessment tools.
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 modules in the recommended order:
- Foundation module:
- Inside-out Strategy:
- Adaptive Organisation:
- Outside-in Strategy:
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