Workshops: Core Agendashift: Facilitating Outcome-Oriented Change

PLEASE NOTE: These workshop pages are no longer maintained.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:

Leading in a Transforming Organisation

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.

“Fantastic Agendashift workshop today. I’d recommend it to anyone responsible for organisational change”

The Core Agendashift workshop ‘Facilitating outcome-oriented change’ provides a 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 awareness of the continuous transformation process.

It is run both publicly and privately; see the Events calendar for upcoming public workshops.

Who should attend?

The core workshop is aimed at all agents and leaders of organisational change – whether internal or external, specialist practitioner or sponsor.

Public workshops are focussed primarily on skills. You will however have ample opportunity to put them into your organisational context and demonstrate Agendashift’s ability to meet organisational needs in ways such as these:

Launching, refocusing, or reenergising continuous transformation in your organisation
Enhancing your organisation’s internal coaching and change management capability
Embedding outcome-orientation and continuous transformation through leadership development

For private workshops, there is some choice in the balance between the focus on skills and on the production of artefacts of real value to the organisation. We use Core for mainly skills-focussed workshops and Applied where the goal is organisation development. The longer Deep Dive workshop provides space for both.

Workshop outcomes

Practice in a range of outcome-oriented facilitation techniques
Recognition of the role of outcome orientation in the modern organisation
Understanding of the integration of techniques and concepts from Lean-Agile, Kanban, Clean Language, Cynefin, Lean Startup, and A3

Workshop facilitation

Your facilitator will be one of our most experienced partners, either Agendashift founder Mike Burrows or a close collaborator.

Workshop overview

Important note: Not every exercise can be covered in depth in a single day, and your facilitator will prioritise according to need. The Mapping exercises (session 3) are considered optional and may sacrificed in their entirety in favour of the Changeban game or to allow more time for Discovery. Operation (chapter 5 of the book) is not typically included in 1-day workshops except for aspects combined with Elaboration as described below.

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

Exploring organisational context, objectives, obstacles, and outcomes using these exercises:

Discovery provides a great example of the generative pattern Ideal, Obstacles, Outcomes (IdOO).

2. Exploration: Prospecting for opportunities

The opportunity to practice skills acquired in Discovery and to reinforce the IdOO pattern:

Survey debrief / obstacles
15-minute FOTO (Classic)

Both to provide input to this session and to set the tone for the workshop overall, the Agendashift delivery assessment is set in advance as prework.

3. Mapping: Building a visual transformation plan

Typically just one of these mapping exercises, organising the outputs of Exploration:

Option Approach Mapping (not its real name)
Option Relationship Mapping
Pathway Mapping

4. Elaboration: Framing actions, testing our thinking & 5. Operation: Change as real work

An introduction to hypothesis-based change and other aspects of Right-to-Left Strategy Deployment:

Changeban (I): A process of knowledge discovery (optional)
Options to experiments
Experiment A3
Changeban (II): Double loop learning (optional)

And to close:

Full Circle

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