Kanban India

What they said:

“Complex concepts presented with clarity and simplicity”
“A language for exploring and discussing organisational issues – issues that aren't only process-related”
“Found the ideas of context and awareness tied well into managing different relationships”
“This rounds out organisational change aspects any serious practitioner should know”
“I wish I'd had this training years ago!”

Overview

In this training, we'll be answering some important questions about leadership and organisation, questions that become increasingly critical as our organisations become more and more information-dependent.

Main focus: the digital-age (though not necessarily technology-centric) organisation, where product development, service delivery, and organisational improvement are increasingly integrated. With that come challenges of context and scale, which process-based approaches are ill-equipped to meet.

Organisational lens: The Deliberately Adaptive Organisation – a modern, complexity-aware reconstruction of Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model. You’ll gain tools to engage with the real dynamics of decision-making and change.

This training turns traditional change management on its head—replacing top-down rollouts with coherent, context-driven progress across multiple fronts.

Duration

2 Days (16 Hours)

Timing

9 AM to 6 PM IST Each day
(1 Hour break in between)

Presenter

Mike Burrows

Batch Size

Upto 20

Participants Profile

Intermediate or advanced

Accreditation Institute

Agendashift Academy

Course Delivery Language

English

Approach of Delivery

Mix of theory & participatory exercises (Classroom Training)

Recommendation

None

Certification Details

Participants will receive a certificate of participation issued by the Agendashift Academy.

Venue

Bengaluru

Agenda

Day 1: Business Agility at Every Scale
- Developing an every-scale model of business agility for the digital-age organisation
- Introducing the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation
- Relationships between different aspects of the organisation
- Recognising sources of dysfunction
- Viability, possibility, and wholeheartedness
1. Space 1: Delivering-Discovering-Renewing

The value-creating work and its relationships
The organisation's capacities for communication and decision-making
Why and how to liberate them

2. Space 2: Adaptive Strategising
- The Right to Left pattern – working backwards from key moments of impact and learning
- Constraints on strategising
- Identity, purpose, and self-governance
3. Space 3: Mutual Trust Building
- The costs of mistrust
- 100 years of organising – the systemic role of trust
- Models of trust-building leadership

Day 2: Between Spaces, Scopes, and Scales

Engaging with scale-related issues, promoting structural adaptivity, meeting our challenges well
4. The Space Between
- Untangling inter-scale relationships
- Dimensions of strategy – identifying concerns and accountabilities outside the formal structure
- Navigating organisational structure with the customer/geography/technology/time model
5. Organising without Reorganising – aka Organising at Human Scale
- Your organisation in 5 networks
- Teaming, reteaming, and thinking in circles
- The Deliberately Developmental Organisation (DDO)
6. What Lies Beneath
- Constraints Club – describing what's really happening
- Affordance Mapping – organising our opportunities for change
- Who's invited? Setting up those next moments of impact and learning

Learning Objectives

Understand how different vital aspects of your organisation relate to each other – at each scale of organisation (team, team-of-teams, and higher, up to the whole organisation) and between scales
Understand what it means for those relationships to be healthy and productive, and conversely, how a wide range of organisational dysfunctions may be understood as relational imbalances
Learn to recognise what diminishes your organisation’s capacity to adapt as its business environment changes – and what you might do about it
Understand how the organisation is impacted by failures of context, and what leaders up and down the organisation can do about it
Learn how to involve others in framing, prioritising, and engaging with the organisation’s challenges and opportunities
Relevant to all but the smallest organisations (and of special importance if you are using or considering using a so-called scaling framework), learn new tools for understanding and dealing with issues of scale
Learn how to organise your options in various ways, including visually and as OKRs
Practise generating diverse solution ideas and framing them as hypotheses
Understand the leadership takeaways from some classic exercises from the Agendashift / Leading with Outcomes stable, including Obstacles Fast and Slow and our Clean Language-inspired coaching game, 15-minute FOTO

Audience

Training participants are typically a mixture of the following:
Leaders wishing to better understand how to recognise, prioritise, and engage with organisational challenges
Practitioners wishing to enhance their organisational understanding and to deal better with issues of scale

Course Deliverables

Three months free access to Leading with Outcomes, upgradeable at any time to Facilitator or Trainer
A certificate of participation
A free digital copy of the accompanying book, Wholehearted: Engaging with Complexity in the Deliberately Adaptive Organisation (2025)

Registration Fee

Early Bird - INR 30000 + 18% GST
Regular - INR 35000 + 18% GST

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