What is Agendashift?
Agendashift is an engagement model aimed at helping to build wholehearted organisations – organisations in which people engage on the issues that matter, actively participate in anticipating and meeting needs, and through agreement on outcomes create the conditions for organisation and leadership development.
An engagement model must do these three things:
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Help the change agent structure their engagement with their client organisation and its staff
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Help the client organisation engage its staff meaningfully in change-related work
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Help the transforming parts of the organisation engage constructively with the rest of the organisation, so that both will thrive
In Agendashift, the engagement structure comes in the shape of five activities:
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Discovery: Establishing a shared sense of direction, identifying needs, ambitions and aspirations as well as shorter-term outcomes
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Exploration: Identifying opportunities for change, articulating them as outcomes, choosing appropriate change management approaches
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Mapping: Visualising plans and priorities, testing thinking, identifying gaps
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Elaboration: Keeping the change process fed with ideas, framing options as hypotheses and developing them as experiments
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Operation: The techniques and feedback loops required to sustain change over the long term, change treated as real work
Learning Agendashift
There are 3 families of workshops that can help you learn and practice the Agendashift engagement model:
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Transformation Strategy Workshops – hands-on with the Agendashift engagement model
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Outside-in Strategy Workshops – variations on this exciting strategy approach
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Short Training Workshops – specific skills and techniques of coaching and organisation design
All our workshops can be delivered online, typically over multiple days in sessions of up to two hours each.
Transformation Strategy Workshops
These workshops cover the Agendashift engagement model with a range of depth, coverage, and organisation focus:
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Core Agendashift: Facilitating outcome-oriented change provides a quick, single-day pass through the Agendashift engagement model. It is aimed at coaches, consultants, and managers wishing to practice a range of outcome-centric facilitation techniques and develop some awareness of the continuous transformation process.
Workshop outcomes include:
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Practice in a range of outcome-oriented facilitation techniques
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Recognition of the role of outcome orientation in the modern organization
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Understanding of the integration of techniques and concepts from Lean-Agile, Kanban, Clean Language, Cynefin, Lean Startup, and A3
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Applied Agendashift: Co-Creating Your Transformation Strategy Using the same Core material, the focus of the Applied workshop the host organisation and its ways of working. As its name suggests, its output is a coherent strategy for transformation, co-created by its participants. It is delivered either as an intensive 1-day event for a mixed audience or as a series of targeted events as part of a broader engagement.
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Agendashift Deep Dive: Coaching and leading continuous transformation Expanding on the Core workshop, the 2-day Deep Dive workshop is aimed at coaches, consultants, and managers wishing to develop their coaching and leadership skills in the areas of coaching, facilitation, strategy deployment, and change leadership, and to broaden and deepen their appreciation of the Lean-Agile landscape and related bodies of knowledge.
Outside-In Strategy Workshops
These workshops explore three variants on the theme of outside-in strategy review and organisation design:
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Agendashift Outside-In Strategy Review: For private clients only and comprising of five sessions. The Agendashift Outside-in Strategy Review (OI-SR) is described in the 2019 book Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile.
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Impact! Strategically outcome-oriented for products and services: A 1-day Agendashift workshop for product people. Different expressions of user need; managing your portfolio of experiments; thinking strategically about product evolution; options, hypotheses, and experiments.
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Wholehearted: OKR – Integrating strategy, development, and delivery: This workshop uses the outside-in strategy review as a safe and effective way to approach Objectives and Key Results (OKR). Get the benefits, avoid the dysfunctions, and begin to see your organisation differently. This workshop comprises 8 sessions of between 90 and 120 minutes each, typically delivered in 4 half days or 2 full days, online by default.
Short Training Workshops
These shorter workshops address specific skills and techniques of coaching and organisation design, all 100% online:
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Coaching with Outcomes (CwO): This 2-session workshop covers the Discovery and Exploration sessions of the Core Agendashift workshop and features both the Lite and Classic editions of our Clean Language-inspired coaching game 15-minute FOTO.
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Strategic Mapping with Outcomes: This short workshop is centered on the ‘string’ of three mapping exercises from the the Mapping session of the Agendashift Deep Dive workshop
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Probe! Outcomes, Stories, and Experiments: Described by one participant as ”A3 for the 2020’s", the Probe! workshop is a standalone and enhanced version of the strategy workshops’ Elaboration activity, as covered in chapter 4 of the Agendashift book. It features one of our most popular resources, the Agendashift Experiment A3 Template, and exciting new material from the Impact! and Wholehearted:OKR workshops.
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Implementing Your Outside-In Service Delivery Review (OI-SDR): A private workshop that will take you well on your way to implementing your own outside-in service delivery review (OI-SDR) as introduced in Agendashift (2018) and developed in Right to Left (2019)
