I am pleased to confirm the venue for the London 2024 edition of Leading in a Transforming Organisation. I am grateful to PA Consulting for hosting us again, this time at their Farringdon office, a short walk from Farringdon tube station. You can book your place now: 25-27 June, London, UK: Leading in a Transforming Organisation (London) Alternatively, there’s Berlin and Southampton also: 4-6 June, Berlin, Germany Leading in a Transforming Organisation (Berlin) 8-10 October, Southampton, UK: Leading in a Transforming Organisation Online, the closest thing is TTT/F, just five weeks away ..read more

Thing 1: Yesterday’s webinar recording For this month’s webinar we were joined yesterday by Karl Scotland, who over the years has made a number of significant contributions to the development of Agendashift and Leading with Outcomes. You can access the recording and related bits & pieces here. Enjoy! While we’re on free events, there are two more this month, both on the 18th: 18 April, online meetup, 18:00 NZST, 07:00 BST, 08:00 CEST: Between Spaces, Scopes, and Scales: What the scaling frameworks don’t tell you 18 April, online, 15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10am EDT: Experience/practice sessio ..read more

First off, we’re in that weird time when time zone offsets between Europe and the Americas are out of whack. I’ve updated this Thursday’s event to reflect that: 21 March, online, 15:00 GMT, 16:00 CET, 11am EDT: Experience/practice session: Outside-in Strategy Readiness Assessment While we’re looking at free events, April’s webinar features a special guest, Karl Scotland, one of my most important collaborators in the development of Agendashift and Leading with Outcomes. Also, April’s experience/practice session departs from its usual pattern of cycling through the mini assessments to look ins ..read more

The facilitated workshops page lists five workshop designs, the first four (those shown on the image above) deliverable by authorised facilitators and trainers alike, the fifth only by trainers: Discovery Workshop Assessment Debrief Workshop Outside-in Strategy Review Workshop Adaptive Organisation Workshop Leading in a Transforming Organisation Plenty of choice there, so which should be used when? The first two of those work both standalone and together (in either order), and the last two should be regarded as alternatives to each other, so let’s divide them into three group ..read more

In this edition: A big update to 15-minute FOTO; The Featureban Flow Experience; Coming in March: Obstacles Fast and Slow and more; Adaptive Organisation (Berlin & London); The Great Consolidation; Top Posts; Upcoming events A big update to 15-minute FOTO On Monday I released v13 of our Clean Language-inspired coaching game, 15-minute FOTO. This was the most significant release for a long time, making it easier for participants and facilitators alike to get things started. Read all about it here: A big update to 15-minute FOTO The Featureban Flow Experience Also last Monday was the ..read more

In this new version of our Clean Language-inspired coaching game: Integrating the Classic and Lite editions formats Cheat mode General tidyup Standard and premium versions 1. Integrating the Classic and Lite formats The Lite format (or ‘edition’, as it has been called up to now) was introduced in 2019 in version 7 thus: To understand why we’ve wanted to make changes, consider what each participant is doing when they play the game for the first time: Familiarising themselves with the Clean Language questions (from the cue card if it’s an in-room workshop, from the screen if it’s online) Tak ..read more

Part-way through the February Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator, I was prompted to create a new slide on the topic of breakouts. We agreed that it would be helpful to add it to every training or workshop deck – hidden by default and kept in reserve, it would be there as a reminder to the host, and available as a resource if needed. Its four key points (which I’ll expand on) are easy enough to remember, and they apply both to remote and in-person events: Don’t let tools get in the way of a good conversation Don’t wait to get started Don’t let yourself get stuck too long in one role Help each oth ..read more

STOP PRESS – just too late for the main roundup below, here’s the episode I recorded on Monday for the Clean at Work podcast with hosts John Barratt and Sarah Baca. Enjoy! Clean at Work: Episode 14 Strategizing Clean – Mike Burrows on Integrating Clean Language More: media In this edition: February TTT/F; 15-minute FOTO, Obstacles Fast and Slow, and 25% off; From Flow to Business Agility; Upcoming events; Top posts February TTT/F Approaching fast, the next Leading with Outcomes: Train-the-Trainer / Facilitator (TTT/F) begins on the 6th. With the Inside-out Strategy module ..read more

The great consolidation continues apace! Landing this morning on the newer of the two Agendashift Academy platforms was part I of the latest version of the Inside-out Strategy module. Part I introduces many of our most popular exercises, most notably: Our trusty, context-capturing kickoff exercise Celebration-5W The inspiring (and sometimes cathartic) True North: Ideal Our Clean Language-inspired coaching game 15-minute FOTO Obstacles Fast and Slow, the exercise formerly known as Good Obstacle, Bad Obstacle The last two of those have received some updates. Standalone materials in premium and ..read more

Welcome to 2024! Happy New Year! 2024 has already started of course, and with the valued help of over 20 contributors I iterated several times over the holiday period on this article posted on the blog here yesterday: From Flow to Business Agility – your comments/reactions etc on LinkedIn greatly appreciated Also new is a section on the Agendashift Academy site for facilitated Leading with Outcomes workshops: Leading with Outcomes Discovery Workshop Leading with Outcomes Assessment Debrief Workshop Outside-in Strategy Review Workshop Adaptive Organisation Workshop In the calendar ..read more