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Workshops: Coaching with Outcomes (CwO)


PLEASE NOTE: These workshop pages are no longer maintained. From the Agendashift Academy site please see instead these standalone workshops addressing different aspects of organisation development and deliverable by authorised facilitators and trainers alike:

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. Some stakeholder involvement may be valuable also.

If interested in holding any of the above workshops or hosting Leading in a Transforming Organisation as public training, Contact us.


Update: Until April 2021 this interactive workshop was previously known as Leading with Outcomes (LwO). That name now belongs to the corresponding (and complementary) self-paced training.

In this hands-on workshop of two 2-hour sessions we practice two related things:

  1. Putting outcomes before solutions, being outcome-oriented
  2. The language of outcomes as an essential discipline for managers, coaches, facilitators, and consultants

At this workshop’s heart is the IdOO pattern, short for Ideal, Obstacles, Outcomes. Demonstrating its power and flexibility we use this pattern twice, implementing it with a range of different tools over the two sessions.

Whatever your role, if you’re in the business of encouraging innovation, change, and transformation – helping people engage meaningfully in change-related work – then this workshop is for you. Our short training workshops Strategic Mapping with Outcomes and Probe! are ideal followups.

Among this workshop’s sources and inspirations are Clean Language, Solutions Focus, Challenge Mapping, Lean, and Agile. The Agendashift™ delivery assessment is included in the second session.

Online, this participatory workshop is conducted ‘open mic’ via Zoom and Google Docs. Afterwards, participants receive a certificate of participation.

Workshop overview

1. Discovery: Describing where we'd like to get to

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Establishing organisational context and high-level objectives, obstacles, and outcomes using these exercises (and more):

  • Celebration-5W – our context-setting kickoff exercise
  • True North / Obstacles – reflection, followed by obstacle generation and refinement
  • 15-minute FOTO (Lite) – the introductory version of our Clean Language-inspired coaching game
  • Plan on a Page – organising the outcomes produced in the preceding exercises

2. Exploration: Prospecting for opportunities

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Prospecting for opportunities, practicing skills acquired in the first session and reinforcing the IdOO pattern as we dig into the detail:

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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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