One of Agendashift’s oldest resources gets an update! I had the opportunity to test it at a workshop* at the DWP a few weeks ago, and I gave breakout groups the option to use either version. Not only did most groups choose the new version, it was mentioned in the retro as something they particularly liked.

If you’ve not come across it before, the Agendashift Plan on a Page is a quick and easy way to organise outcomes such as those generated by our Clean Language coaching game 15-minute FOTO when you don’t have time for a full-blown mapping exercise.

Here’s the old version:

But what do “short term”, “medium term”, and “long term” actually mean? In practice, the outcomes themselves determine that; as we do in other mapping exercises, participants identify extreme examples first (in this case long term, then short term), and the rest get organised relative to those. That works well enough, but that question keeps arising.

No such problem with the new version. It follows a structure we have long referred to as “outcomes all the way down”, the same structure we use in Leading with Outcomes: Foundation, our ideation exercise Meaning, Measure, Method, and to help frame OKRs and hypotheses. Signs of emergence – the smallest, most actionable outcomes, signs that we’re unstuck, the first tiniest signs that something interesting might be beginning to emerge – then (and giving direction to those), indicators of progress, measures of success, and out to goals and aspirations.

Grab it here. The PDF includes both versions, and if you need to customise it, you get the source PowerPoint too. A3 size works great. Premium subscribers get a facilitation deck too.

*Actually two half-day workshops, Plan on a Page featuring in the second:

1. Leading with Outcomes Essentials (I): Discovery
2. Leading with Outcomes Essentials (II): Assessment Debrief Workshop

Outside the UK government sector (where I’m currently engaged full-time), I don’t have the capacity to facilitate these privately – sorry! However, I’d be glad to recommend others who do, and you can get in touch if you’d like to join the Leading with Outcomes facilitator programme yourself.