Most of your organization’s problems are not about product or process. There’s no question that aligning your organizational product priorities and improving your delivery processes is critical. In order to do these effectively, you have to engage your people and help them collaborate on organizational problems. In our experience, that is the hardest part. To succeed in today’s complex world, we need to tap the potential of all the people in our organizations.
We all say we hire great people. If that’s true, why don’t we let them do their jobs?
We know that with increasing speed, change, and unknowns, leaders can no longer rely on knowing everything. Instead of developing a plan and then telling others what to do, you need to engage your people and teams in ways that allow them to own innovation and delivery. You need to model the behavior you want in order to create the culture you need. While many people have the intent to lead in this way, they are held back by a variety of things. We help you dig into the root of these issues, including busting assumptions about people, teams, and yourself; teaching new skills and abilities; shining a light on the abilities your people already have that are underutilized; and helping leaders step back and get out of their teams’ way.
Our Approach
No two organizations are the same… and many of them face the same challenges and want the same outcomes.
Common Problems
- Lack of engagement from individuals and groups
- Constant short-term focus that limits organizational development
- Projects that depend on a single, heroic expert
- Avoiding difficult topics and conversations
- Change processes that stall or fail outright
Desired Results
- Fully engaged teams that take ownership of the work
- Long-term view of success and growth
- People collaborating to deliver together – pooling their knowledge
- Healthy ways to navigate conflict
- Durable, lasting change
Leadership, people, and change are at the heart of some of the most intimidating challenges we work through — and often the root of other problems. These issues are intangible – but failing to address them has tangible consequences, and working through them pays real dividends. As you know, there are no perfect answers – no magic wands to wave – that will solve all your people, leadership, and change problems. We know that your people are important to you, as is delivering innovative products to your customers, and doing that efficiently. We help you find ways to do all three – even when it doesn’t seem possible.
How We Help
We offer a variety of services to help, including training, coaching, consulting, and assessments.
Leading Amazing Teams Training
Leading Amazing Teams is designed for leaders and agile coaches who want and need to go beyond simply telling teams they are empowered. This course teaches leaders how to create and maintain high-performance teams with pragmatic tools and approaches. This course brings critical tools, techniques, skills, and ideas from professional coaching, brain-based training, and much more to leaders, managers, and agile coaches.
Managing Amazing People Training
People managers play a critical and often under-supported role in organizations. Many managers realize they must shift from doing work to getting work done through others. Great managers recognize that their role comes with greater control and influence and use it to create positive change. They know their path to success is not as simple as “hire great people and trust them.” This course helps managers to show up as clear, connected, and curious to navigate the often contradictory demands placed on them.
Change Leadership & Management Training
Change Leadership and Management is focused on helping people lead changes in ways that allow you to actually achieve the change goal. “Change leadership is about understanding how individuals, groups, and organizations experience change and using that knowledge to make a change easier and more likely to succeed.” Change leadership works with product or project management to ensure the goal of the change is achieved, because without adoption, the value of the change is often not realized. Successful change focuses on not simply delivering the work to achieve the goal, but also on the people-focused transition work that must happen to reach the goal.
Agile for Executives Training
Executives and managers need to know agile if they want to succeed with agile. They need to understand not just the tactical aspects but also the mindset shifts they need to make to support their people and teams. This course explores how agility will impact the job of managers, directors, and executives. It gives you will have an opportunity to explore what agile means and its impact on your organization. Students should expect to be challenged and to pose challenges to agile ideas – and to each other.
Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM) – Agile Facilitation
Take your ScrumMaster and Agile Facilitator skills to the next level with Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM) – Agile Facilitation. Facilitate better dialogue, respond with confidence when you encounter challenges, increase engagement within teams, and unravel what agile scaling really means. Our two-day workshop digs into these topics and many more!
Agile Lean Organization: Advanced Training Programs
Our Agile Lean Organization Advanced Workshop Series is designed to focus on key elements of a successful agile lean organization. We work with you to review the Agile Lean Organization Elements for Success and identify the most important areas to focus improvement on.
We know that organizations have great people and ideas, existing knowledge, and success with agile, but are also focused on how to continue improving. This program is designed to help them take the next step(s) forward by building on that knowledge and experience. The workshops in this program are designed to help your people explore the problems and issues they face as well as accelerate the opportunities they have. By reviewing your goals relative to the Agile Lean Organization Elements, we can then help target the impediments to those goals.
We created this problem to help organizations be more successful on their journey to become and continue to thrive as an Agile Lean Organization.
Coaching & Consulting
Our hands-on, practical training provides a solid foundation for learning and applying new concepts. There are times when you want help dealing with your specific organizational challenges and opportunities as well as helping your people continue to grow and improve. For these situations, we offer a variety of coaching & consulting services focused on organizational change, agile change, agile management, and leadership development. We work directly with teams, managers, executives, and leaders to help your organization to reach its potential, achieve your business goals, and break through conflict and challenges.
Next Steps
Contact us to set up some time to discuss any of the services listed, ask how we might help you with specific goals or challenges, or even see a live demo of our training, coaching, or consulting! We love tough questions – so ask away!