Workshops: Probe! Outcomes, Stories, and Experiments

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PLEASE NOTE: These workshop pages are no longer maintained.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

• Leading with Outcomes Assessment Debrief Workshop
• Leading with Outcomes Discovery Workshop
• Adaptive Organisation Workshop
• Outside-in Strategy Review Workshop

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.

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Described by one participant as ”A3 for the 2020’s", the Probe! workshop is a standalone and enhanced version of our strategy workshops’ Elaboration (ideation and experimentation) 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.

Topics and exercises:

• Stories and their authentic situations of need
• Hypotheses “hard” and “soft”
• Just-in-time option selection
• Challenge Mapping¹
• Generating 15% Solutions²
• Framing ideas as hypotheses
• Developing experiments with the Agendashift Experiment A3 Template (see below)
• Patterns: Meaning, Measure, Method, IdOO, and Right-to-Left Strategy Deployment

¹See the Ideal, Obstacles, Outcomes (IdOO) pattern page for some Challenge Mapping references
²15% Solutions: Discover and Focus on What Each Person Has the Freedom and Resources to Do Now (liberatingstructures.com), Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless inspired by Prof. Gareth Morgan

and here

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• The workshops:
  • Transformation strategy: Core, Applied, and Deep Dive
  • Outside-in strategy: Outside-in strategy review (OI-SR), Impact!, and Wholehearted:OKR
  • Short training: Coaching with Outcomes (CwO), Strategic Mapping with Outcomes, Probe! and Implementing your OI-SDR
• About Agendashift
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• Leading with Outcomes from the Agendashift Academy:
  • Leading with Outcomes: Foundation
  • Inside-out Strategy: On the same page, with purpose
  • Adaptive Organisation: Business agility at every scale
  • Outside-in Strategy: Positioned for success
  • Leading with Outcomes: Authorised Facilitator and Trainer Programmes
• The books:
  • Organizing Conversations: Preparing Groups to Take on Adaptive Challenges (May 2024)
  • Agendashift: Outcome-oriented change and continuous transformation (2nd edition 2021)
  • Right to Left: The digital leader’s guide to Lean and Agile (2019, audiobook 2020)
• Agendashift as framework
  • Generative patterns
  • Core activities
  • Models, sources, and inspirations
• Resources
• The Agendashift blog (blog.agendashift.com)
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