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The Agility NarrativesGen-AI: 3 Essential Conversations for Senior Leaders to lead complex changeAs senior leaders we want to focus on the key conversations to have with ourselves, our leadership team, teams and our organizations around change and AI. What are the essential three conversations to have? We will explore this topic. Martin discusses the role of a leader as a change champion during a time of change, such as the introduction of AI. He emphasizes the importance of retrospection and self-examination in understanding how leaders and organizations respond to new technologies. He suggests that leaders should reevaluate their belief systems around new tech, especially AI, as it ma...
2023-11-0330 min
The Agility NarrativesWhy evolve with adaptive conscious teams?About this event - LinkedIn Audio Event - (link)As a leader, what are some of the complex challenges you face? Is there a mindset or practice change that would make a fundamental shift in the value your team delivers? Do you want to evolve the quality of the holding space with your team? Would you benefit together from more meaningful and challenging conversations?In an era marked by rapid change and growing complexity, the role of teams is more pivotal than ever. But what does it mean for a team to be adaptive and c...
2023-08-2716 minThe Agility NarrativesCharly Cox's Agility Narrative on Climate Change CoachingWe are pleased to welcome Charly Cox of Climate Change Coaches to the Agility Narratives, where she joins us to talk about her personal journey as an advocate of climate coaching, and her book - a first on Climate Coaching in the world - “Climate Change Coaching: The Power of Connection to Create Climate Action”.Charly is impassioned by storytelling and the desire to help others reposition their narratives. Today, she leads by holding space for coaching conversations on climate grounded in social justice, which is now building a global movement. Those involved help peop...
2022-09-021h 04The Agility NarrativesLiz West's Agility Narrative on the enneagramThanks Liz. In this podcast, you helped us embrace a world that is changing. You've introduced us to a tool, the Enneagram, a very ancient tool that helps us develop personal insight to our defenses and our essential selves. It is a slow burn which takes time, as people doing personal work create deeper connections and relationships with themselves as well as others.You led us into a secret, which is yes, we can also learn about and empathize with others' natural patterns. While it is discouraged to type others, people learning the enneagram...
2022-08-1255 min
The Agility NarrativesKai Mosebach's Agility Narrative on vertical developmentKai Mosebach of Integral Works' personal journey starts with shadow work. He introduces:03:44 the modules of Integral life practice: Shadow (unconscious), Mind (cognitive & trust), Body (emotions, life happens in your body), Spirit (mediation, observing your own system, states)06:42 Integral theory - Ken Wilber initial story - All quadrants All lines (AQAL) of development08:48 The Journey from shadow work to integral theory helped develop practices that changed his world view. He gained empathy to understand different types of people. 11:00 The Enneagram helped with a vertical shift in understanding. 12:32 Showing up. A good willed but probably a somewhat painful...
2022-07-061h 17
The Agility NarrativesKlaus Nielsen's Agility Narrative on Agile portfolio management gapKlaus Nielson talks about his personal journey as a product manager, his passion for writing based on his need to understand. How scaling of Agile, and hybrid models of portfolio management is challenging. He talks about how he uses knowledge to solve these challenges. He sees agile portfolio management and the value management office as the next frontier. Be believes that the commercial methodologies will solve the missing element in the next 5 plus years. As hosts, we engaged in a more spirited way in hosting Klaus's and the telling of his agility narrative. This may be a...
2022-06-0941 minThe Agility NarrativesChristopher Avery's Agility narrative on living a life at choiceFor more about Christopher Avery. Click here for The Responsibility Process® A good place to connect with us is LinkedIn with Janet, and Martin Thanks Please see chapter headings;00:01:27 Driving question, why so many smart people are unhappy at work?00:04:25 Back to studying, then working in consulting firm - creativity, entrepreneurship, culture building and worked working with IBM to build a team building program00:06:17 The search for integrity00:07:44 Christopher settled on shared responsibility as the space where individuals make this organic shift and come together as a team00:09:38 The search for pe...
2022-05-1446 min
The Agility NarrativesKen Cloke's Agility Narrative on the power of conflict resolution & mediation0:44 The early part of Ken's journey with conflict, parents relationship, a shared heritage, and being close to Latino and Anglo communities.1:42 Going to Berkeley, becoming an activist initially in the civil rights non-violent movement and working in the south2:29 Part of the antiwar movement trying to stop the war in Vietnam and represented GIs2:48 Legal approaches could not complete the journey4:00 Legal path - civil rights, law professor, judge led to a point of personal crisis4:33 A lecture on mediation changed Ken's life. The solution he saw conflict resolution to be.5:59 Reflecting...
2022-04-1759 minThe Agility NarrativesPeter Pula's Agility Narrative on the power of being present to another in communityWe are really pleased to welcome Peter Pula to the Agility Narratives to talk about his personal journey as an advocate of generative dialogue and journalism that supports the art of collective conversations as a transformation tool.Peter leads by holding space for and challenging changemakers, organizations and individuals with generative dialogue and connection found in relational presencing in the hosting of mini or community conversations.Practicing dialogue with a generative approach, using appreciative inquiry, asset based community development and the power of asking launches the possibility of an experience of aliveness, delight and creativity an...
2022-04-0857 minThe Agility NarrativesKerry Woodcook's Agility Narrative on relational systemsWe are really pleased to welcome Kerry Woodcock to the Agility narratives to talk about her personal journey as an advocate of change and the challenges she sees for organizations in being responsive to opportunity and change.Kerry leads by holding and challenging leaders, organizations and social systems to amplify the power of relationshipWeaving together innovations from change leadership, adult development and systems coaching, she coaches leaders and teams to develop collective leadership capacity. Kerry is a great story teller - how curiosity, connectedness and separation was a core experience growing up i...
2022-03-1843 minThe Agility NarrativesLarry Coopers' Agility Narrative on getting strategic about agility and innovationLarry's shares his agility narrative, tells us a story of many aha! moments where he learned the power and impact of innovation in terms of:technology work processfocus on the why? and targeting impactspeoplehaving real conversations. Enjoy! Larry Thank you Janet for being the co-host on this event and for your highly insightful questions. 0:00Welcome to The Agility Narratives Podcast2:18The first time Larry moved away from how projects were done And the Ice service in CANADA3:55Speed of delivery through early version of service orientated architecture5:29L...
2022-02-2728 minThe Agility NarrativesPeter Merel's Agility Narrative on learning flow & responding to market changePeter Merel, founder of xScale Alliance, in his Agility Narrative talks through the xScale's approach to agility, and enabling organizations build capability to respond to market conditions. He talks through how learning flow in an organization is key to responding to market change. This is something that 95% of agile transformations do not achieve effectively, according to the longest and largest survey in the Agile world, "The state of Agile Report". Peter is highly entertaining, with great stories of the birth of Agile and XP. Enjoy... 0:01 Welcome & Intro1:21 Peter's early engagement with XP
2022-02-1051 minThe Agility NarrativesMike Kaufman's Agility Narrative on meaningful connection thru difficult conversationsMike's journey has been driven through curiosity. As an agilist with IT software delivery background, he brings organizational & relational systems coach and mediator to leadership coaching. He uses a broad set of tools he integrates to great effect to help leaders as a coach. His protagonists in his agility narrative are leaders seeking change. The theme is meaningful connection with showing how fear, the villain of the narrative, breaks trust and connection. He also discusses resolution processes where interests compete and trust is in place. His call to action is to work with neutral third par...
2022-01-2231 minThe Agility NarrativesFrancois Bachmann's Agility Narrative on the power of the conversationI really enjoyed hearing about Francois' transition from an early idealistic young agile evangelist to an independent coach and trainer. And how a crucial conversation with a wise mentor helped him make the decision to transition. The context of his Agility Narrative is leadership in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) world. Key insights he shared are about sensing reality, being open about our models’ limitations, connecting through conversations and iteratively taking adaptive action. He cites examples such as COVID-19 and Climate change. He talks about types of leaders we need in a VUCA world and we di...
2022-01-1439 minThe Agility NarrativesSteve Tendon's Agility Narrative on Theory of Constraints for Knowledge WorkWe started this conversation with Steve Tendon talking about the theory of constraints and doing a deep dive into how Steve has taken the theory of constraints and applied it to knowledge work. It's fascinating. It's interesting. We didn't end up getting to the agility narrative until 25 minutes in. Feel free to skip around this interview. Steve has applied the theory of constraints to a service based business. The big challenge when searching for the core constraint in the system is the high variance in knowledge work. i.e. The wandering constraints symptom
2021-12-2237 minThe Agility NarrativesArdita Karaj' Agility Narrative about bamboo and the agile organizationArdi learned Agile & fell in love with products working with small teams in a startup and a 3D product company. After this, she became an Agile coach, exploring agile in government, through consulting assignments and in large financial services. She has impacted many in the Toronto area as a community leader, supporting and running meetups. For Ardi, Agile is like bamboo - a living organism, flexible and strong. It's sustainable and green. It grows and evolves. In her agility narrative, the protagonist is the organization that needs to fully adopt agile. She sees herself as an advisor help...
2021-12-1539 minThe Agility NarrativesMichelle N Moore's Agility Narrative on the Battle for AttentionMichelle shared her story of going behind the iron curtain visiting East Germany as a 16 year old and wanting to become a spy. Disillusioned by a CIA job fair decided to be a management consultant and worked with PwC and E&Y in Russia. Her protagonist for her agility narrative is a caring leader that sought for the team high performance and high well being. The theme was about breaking through the iron curtain of oppressive technology that seemed to eat attention and oppressive leadership to recover from stress. The villain wa...
2021-12-0528 minThe Agility NarrativesAlok Uniyal's Agility NarrativeEnjoy Alok's personal story as a change maker, his patterns for success delivery of agility, organizational constraints, and his call to action... (a list of 5). There is no cookie cutter... Yet Alok outlines key principles and lights the path towards success. Alok, Thank you for sharing Your Agility Narrative. ENJOY! 4:04Alok's origin story with Agile5:55Alok's first experience with iterative process (DSDM) - Early Agile6:52Back to India and a process role - how this connected for him7:54Learnings from advising on effectiveness and efficie...
2021-11-2038 min