Leading Agile Change for Executives:  Tuning Yourself and Your Organization to Eat Change for Breakfast (workshop)

Most executives today are steeped in an obsolete approach to organization change. Though a much more effective approach has been proven in myriad changes across many industries, the traditional approach still predominates. Now significant evidence supports your taking a serious look at the new approach.

Who Should Attend

C-level, VP, and Directors of medium and large enterprises addressing specific changes and seeking to build agility into the entire organization (not just the software delivery process).

What Will You Learn

Executives will learn how to approach, plan, and execute organization change in ways that

• Dramatically increase the likelihood of success and reduce the risk of failure
• Reduces the cost of change and accelerates the payoff
• Produces faster acceptance, less resistance, and greater satisfaction with the change

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We will serve snacks and drinks, and occasionally lunch. Your travel, lodging, and other meals will be on your own.

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Early Bird registration of $597, save $200 - up until 4 weeks prior to the workshop

Regular registration of $797 - within 4 weeks of the workshop

Register for 3 or more on the same order and shopping cart will automatically apply a 10% discount (we will follow up later for names and contact information).

Register for 10 or more on the same order and shopping cart will automatically apply a 25% discount. Read below about the value of attending with your team...

Cancellation policy

You may substitute anytime. Cancel more than 4 weeks prior for a full refund. You may switch session dates anytime. No refunds after switching a session date.

What’s wrong with the traditional approach to organization change?

The traditional linear approach of first perfecting the plan then executing against it increasingly backfires under conditions of increasing complexity and uncertainty? Why? No amount of planning and analysis can account for the amount of interdependence in the operating environment.

In today's turbulent environment, heavy up-front planning and analysis is not only costly, it delays three critical success factors to effective change leadership:

1. Testing beliefs and assumptions about the change as soon as possible in order to advance knowledge acquisition, risk reduction, and confidence.
2. Gaining real desired value from early results thus improving the economics and motivation of the change process.
3. Involving people closest to the processes and operations targeted by the change to dramatically reduce resistance and increase creativity, collaboration, and innovation about the desired change.

Is this simply agile software development practices applied to other change?

Yes and No. So far it sounds like a re-phrasing of agile development practices doesn’t it? However, an eagle-eye view across industry sectors shows similar dynamics of learning, growth, and change in organizational arenas beyond software.

Very successful approaches to leading strategic business growth and to leading large scale change call on patterns of thinking and leading that are nearly identical in principle  to agile software development but call on different practices. These approaches have emerged entirely separately from agile software development. They too rely on

• chunking large goals and efforts into bite-sized chunks ,
• focusing intently on a few clear priorities,
• empowering the people closest to the work, and
• establishing a rhythmic momentum to cycles of planning, action, learning, and adaptation.

Attend individually or with your team

This learning event is effective and highly productive for members, leaders, or both together—we've seen the results year after year. For intact teams of three or more attending together, you will so accelerate your work progress that the two days away to attend this event will be made up within a week or we'll gladly make it right including returning your tuition.

What you receive

• a full day of intensive hands-on proven-on-the-front-lines-of-leadership skill-building. 
• A valuable "image-based" participant manual containing your customized notes. Many graduates report referencing theirs for years afterwards
• Certificate of Completion for 6.5 classroom hours. Participants who fully engage in the entire intensive from beginning to end will receive a certificate for 6.5 hours you can submit to your professional association for continuing education credits.
• Leadership skills based on what works naturally (called "is"-based) as opposed to "should"-based models requiring everyone to read the same book or attend the same training
• Your own copy of Christopher's book Teamwork Is An Individual Skill: Getting Your Work Done When Sharing Responsibility to reference and reinforce your continued learning after the intensive
• Your own copy of The Leader's Guide supplement to Teamwork Is An Individual Skill for role-specific guidance about how to apply the principles in the book (and training intensive)
• Invitation to a private 60-75 minute follow-up teleconference with Christopher Avery and your class-mates a few weeks following the live session. You will have the unique opportunity to ask questions after having an opportunity to apply your new leadership skills on the job

Check out...

Important testimonial video from Rally Software CEO Tim Miller.

Watch InfoQ editor Amr Elsamadissey's interview with Christopher

Host private sessions for your groups

Contact us to inquire about bringing this workshop to your organization.