Sydney Workshops

Do your meetings regularly end with no decisions made, and leave everyone wondering what happens next? Do your team and stakeholders struggle to communicate well with each other? An indecisive team can be frustrating, but over time can lead to more complexity, lost productivity, and lost revenue.

Join master facilitator and team trainer Ben Crothers for a workshop that will show you a collective decision-making framework that is designed specifically for Agile teams. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to apply this framework to challenges that you’re facing, and how to use it to tackle tricky situations in Agile rituals and meetings (HiPPOs, analysis paralysis, biases, oh my!). You’ll also come away with sets of smart facilitation questions to help you in those ‘rabbit-in-the-headlights’ moments, and help you get your teams un-stuck.

Workshop outline:

• Introductions and warm-up – all-in then small group intros
• What gets in the way of smooth decision-making – small groups, a bit of root cause analysis and playback
• Mapping the decision space – Success before, during and after; locating the problems that we’ve discussed
• Setting up for success – scenario-based demo, then small group activity
• Intro to the CAPPED decision framework – scaffolding group decisions, and avoiding the ‘decision cliff’
• Using the CAPPED decision framework – scenario based demos, then small groups to apply it in different ways
• Next steps – Everyone jots down one new thing they’re going to try in their team

Learn about Ben Crothers here »

This workshop will give you the necessary building blocks to help you on the continuous challenge of maintaining fitness in the presence of a rapidly changing external environment.You can expect lots of new concepts, discussions, case studies, and actionable insights.

Learning objectives:

• Origins of Value Streams and its emergence in enterprise organisation
• Governance challenges in Value Streams
• 10 Attributes of strong, highly motivated Value Streams
• The top-level Value Stream Metrics
• Advanced customer-centric and flow-based metrics
• Feedback loops of Value Stream Operating Models
• Progressive Delivery Governance practices
• Progressive Delivery Management and Continuous Improvement practices

Who should attend and why:

• IT Leaders (CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, Program and Portfolio leaders, Enterprise Performance Managers). This workshop will give you new powerful tools to govern and improve your Value Streams and delivery groups.
• Agile Delivery Practitioners (Delivery Leads, Service Delivery Managers, Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Program Managers) . This workshop will give you new powerful tools to improve your delivery management and continuous improvement skills.

This workshop is kindly sponsored by Elabor8 & Flomatika.

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Often we rely on our automatic responses to people and situations, but these have been shown to be unreliable. This workshop explores new models of human connection and leadership, based on Ali Walker’s original research.

Leadership is no longer about the leader who can impress. It is about the leader who can connect. The workshop will build your leadership capacity through experiential group work and discussions.

Workshop participants will learn:

• To identify their connection style and the styles of others.
• The five stages of group dynamics, from disconnection to flow/high-performance.

This workshop is suitable for:

• Current and aspiring leaders wanting to gain strategies to build high-performance teams using empathy and connection.
• Team members wanting to learn how to be the best team player possible.
• Anyone interested in examining and improving their interpersonal skills and promoting positive connections.

Learn about Ali Walker here »