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Help our research: an “Organisational DNA test”
Excerpt from our article published May 2024 (academy.agendashift.com)
I spoke a few months ago with Olivier Bertrand and a couple of his colleagues who were looking into using phylogenetic techniques to analyse the results of organisational assessments. It seemed that Agendashift’s assessments were ideal for the purpose, and when we met for a second time, the team’s analysis of data captured via the classic Agendashift Delivery Assessment looked very, very promising (I exaggerate not – it was very exciting).
The timing could not be better. I’m now working hard on book 5, Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation, and Olivier has been accepted as a PhD researcher at Université Paris-Saclay to conduct study in the field of Organisational Phylogenetics (PhylOrg). Together, we would like to focus on the new book’s assessment tool (also the assessment tool of the Adaptive Organisation workshop and the Leading in a Transforming Organisation Training). And we need your input!
Article continued (academy.agendashift.com)
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Our leadership model: Engage, Invite, Celebrate:
Engage
Leaders of all kinds and at all levels of organisation engaging with the right challenges
Invite
Inviting the engagement of others, energising the strategy process through participation
Celebrate
Celebrating innovations emerging from the people closest to the need and the opportunity
A different kind of framework – an engagement model
At every scope and scale, developing strategy together, pursuing strategy together, outcomes before solutions, working backwards ("right to left") from key moments of impact and learning.
Not a change management model – we’re not in the business of imposition. Not a delivery framework – too disconnected from strategy. Instead, the development and pursuit of strategy in one, integrated process.
Training
Leading with Outcomes, Agendashift Academy’s core curriculum:
- Foundation module
- Inside-out Strategy
- Adaptive Organisation
- Outside-in Strategy
Available as self-paced online training or delivered in-person or online by an authorised trainer. Visit the Agendashift Academy Store for further information, or Contact us.
Workshops
Standalone workshops addressing different aspects of organisation development and deliverable by authorised facilitators and trainers alike:
- Leading with Outcomes Assessment Debrief Workshop
- Leading with Outcomes Discovery Workshop
- Adaptive Organisation Workshop
- Outside-in Strategy Review Workshop
Deliverable by authorised trainers only:
Assuming meaningful interest in the issues under consideration (i.e. “skin in the game”), they are suitable for participants of all levels of experience.
If interested in holding any of the above workshops or hosting Leading in a Transforming Organisation as public training, Contact us.
“Intensely practical with solid theoretical foundations”
“Expertly and confidently helps you learn how to get from strategy to execution and back again”
“You inspired people and got them talking – couldn’t have asked for more”
“Combines concepts I previously found challenging in a way that not only makes sense but is highly useful”
“I left motivated and confident enough to try these exercises the next day”
“Very practical, highly participative – learning by doing. I can see so many opportunities to use the approach and tools in my work”
As used in many of our workshops and training modules, our famously inclusive, non-prescriptive, and framework-agnostic assessment tools. Get a taste with one of our mini assessments:
- Agendashift Delivery Assessment, mini edition
- Deliberately Adaptive Organisation, mini edition
- Outside-in Strategy Readiness Assessment, mini edition
New! For a limited period only, you can access the full-length version of the Adaptive Organisation assessment via this article:
- Help our research: an “Organisational DNA test” (academy.agendashift.com)
Or go straight to it:
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About us
We are pioneers in outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation, expert practitioners working at the exciting intersection of strategy, organisation development, and delivery.
What makes us different:
- Our deep commitment to outcomes: not just outcomes first, but outcomes authentically agreed and kept at the forefront throughout – maximising their meaning, their significance, and their power to inspire collaboration, innovation, and renewal
- Our open framework: Having more in common with dialogic organisation development, Lean Startup, and OKR than it does with traditional change management, Agendashift is in the vanguard of a new category, the engagement model. Agendashift gives leaders at every level new ways to approach their adaptive challenges, to keep people engaged people in that process, and to keep the organisation whole as it transforms.
- Our mission: the wholehearted and deliberately adaptive organisation. Not someone else’s framework to be imposed out of context, but something to pursue – a holistic integration of strategy, delivery, and organisation development that works at each scale and between scales, embedding engagement, participation, and purpose
Our products and services:
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For transforming organisations and their leaders, Leading with Outcomes (academy.agendashift.com):
- Self-paced and instructor-led training and workshops for leaders at every level
- Subscription plans for individuals and businesses from just £24.50 per month
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For expert practitioners, Leading with Outcomes: Authorised Facilitator and Trainer Programmes (academy.agendashift.com):
- Integrated workshop materials
- Certifiable training materials
- Our unique assessment tools
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Through our partner network and directly:
- consulting, training, facilitating, and coaching services
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Blog
- Agendashift roundup, November 2024
- Assessment template tidyup and an update on book 5
- Agendashift roundup, October 2024
- From classic Lean-Agile to Outcome-Oriented Enterprise Agility: The 10-year Journey
- Engage, Invite, Celebrate – it was there all along
- Agendashift roundup, September 2024
- It only took me ten years
- Clearing the decks
- Agendashift roundup, August 2024
- Further to last week’s roundup
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Media
From classic Lean-Agile to Outcome-Oriented Enterprise Agility: The 10-year Journey
Businessmap (formerly Kanbanize)
Organizing Conversations with Mike Burrows
Agile Uprising Podcast with Jay Hrcsko, agileuprising.libsyn.com
Mike Burrows – Organizing Conversations: Preparing Groups to Take On Adaptive Challenges
Book launch interview with Gervase Bushe of the BMI Institute
Between Spaces, Scopes, and Scales: What the scaling frameworks don't tell you
Kanban New Zealand, Sydney, and Melbourne meetup groups
Karl Scotland: Agendashift, an outcome-oriented engagement model
Agendashift Academy's webinar series: The questions that drive us
Obstacles Fast and Slow
Agendashift Academy's webinar series: The questions that drive us
The Featureban Flow Experience
Episode 14. Strategizing Clean – Mike Burrows on Integrating Clean Language
Clean at Work podcast
Read the book, now in its second edition:
Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation
Mike Burrows, (2nd edition March 2021)
By the same author:
- Organizing Conversations: Preparing Groups to Take on Adaptive Challenges (2024)
- Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile (2019, audiobook 2020)
- Kanban from the Inside (2014)
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Resources
A small sample of free resources:
Our Clean Language-inspired coaching game 15-minute FOTO
Our trusty context-capturing kickoff exercise Celebration-5W
Our Kanban simulation games Featureban and Changeban
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About us
Agendashift™ is brought to you by Agendashift Ltd (formerly Positive Incline Ltd), UK-based specialists in leadership, engagement, strategy, and change. Founder Mike Burrows came to prominence in the Lean-Agile community as the originator of Kanban’s values model, out of which came his first book, Kanban from the Inside (2014). His more recent books Agendashift (2nd edition 2021) and Right to Left (2019, audiobook 2020) bring a resolutely needs-based and outcome-oriented perspective to change, transformation, and the Lean-Agile landscape as a whole, contributing meanwhile a number of popular tools, games, and other resources. He works as a consultant, facilitator, and trainer, and as a keynote speaker at events public and private around the world.
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