Team Foundations: Unlocking High Performance

Mobilise your high performance team with this Sooner Safer Happier variant of an industry accredited team foundations course. Establish trust as well as an understanding of the mindset, roles, principles and practices needed to operate with agility and improve flow, leading to great customer outcomes.
Attendees will experience and learn practices around how to focus on customer outcomes, create high-performing teams, how to focus on the flow of value and how to optimise.

Team Foundation: Unlocking High Performance Training
Mobilise your high performance team with this Sooner Safer Happier variant of an industry accredited team foundations course. Establish trust as well as an understanding of the mindset, roles, principles and practices needed to operate with agility and improve flow, leading to great customer outcomes.
In this class, attendees will experience and learn practices around how to focus on customer outcomes, create high-performing teams, how to focus on the flow of value and how to optimise.
This course will help you
Understand what is agile
Learners can describe what agility is and can reflect on agile values and beliefs to consider what practises, processes and tools will support them in their context.
Build high performing teams
Learners can share qualities of High Performing Team and can measure happiness and performance of own team,
Create a Collaborative Environment
Experience how to create a safe space for learning. Collaboration practices and the importance of team happiness, and how to improve it
What to expect
Price includes funding of a tree per participant making your participation in the remote class 200x carbon positive over the life of the tree, via our charity partner Treesisters.
Logistics
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This is a 2-day class running as 2 x 6 hr or 4 x 3 hr sessions
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Early bird discount of 10% available for bookings and payment made at least 1 month in advance
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For private classes, please enquire for availability and bulk discount
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Social and climate commitment
Course content
Course syllabus - Learning Objectives
Learning Objective 1:
Start with Why. Focus on Outcomes
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Practice creating safe space
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Understand mindset and principles.
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Focus on outcomes and customer value
Learning Objective 2:
High Performing Teams
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Learn how to create high performing teams
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Learn about collaboration practices
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Practice self-organising.
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Experience the difference between traditional vs. modern ways of working practices. Learn team dynamics and how to engage with the product owner.
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Practice retrospectives
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Experience the importance of short feedback loops.
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Experience the benefits of autonomy.
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Learn about roles and responsibilities
Learning Objective 3:
Visualize. Embrace Complexity
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Understand different approaches based on the type of work in your context
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Learn to visualise workflow end to end
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Understand the importance of alignment between strategy and execution
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Learn about how to create a backlog with user stories and slices of value
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Understand planning cadences
Learning Objective 4:
Optimise. Focus on flow
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Learn practices to improve the flow of work end to end
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Learn about how to improve quality
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Experience the impact of batch size on flow
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Practice continuous improvement
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Pull it all together.
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Why we love this workshop
Get ready for half a day of interactive and practical learning. Through case studies, group discussions, and hands-on exercises, you'll learn how to visualise flow, limit work in progress, and optimise for value.
Empower individuals with an industry-recognized credential that showcases their understanding of the agile mindset, values, principles, and foundational concepts. Attendees experience and learn practices around how to focus on customer outcomes, create high-performing teams, how to focus on the flow of value and how to optimise.
This workshop is great for :
This course is particularly relevant for teams who are seeking to improve their ways of working, the way they work together to improve outcomes.
This includes cross-functional teams, product owners, project managers, change agents, coaches, ways of working leads, experience and learn practices around how to focus on customer outcomes, create high-performing teams, how to focus on the flow of value and how to optimise.
The class is also of interest for those responsible for coaching or internal training of the above roles: Ways of Working Leads / Change agents/ Coaches (Product / Agility) learn practices how to help organisations to shift the mindset to focus on outcomes
Teams seeking to improve their ways of working
Product Owners
Project Managers
Ways of Working Leads
Product and Agility coaches
Change Agents

Our partners in creating this course:

ICAgile
ICAgile is a leading global agile accreditation and certification body that helps organizations design learning experiences that cultivate an agile mindset and enable sustainable organizational agility. ICAgile’s approach is not tied to any specific agile methodology, thus giving people the flexibility to blend flavors in a way that makes sense for their reality.

Adventures with Agile
We brought you Team Foundations: Unlocking High Performance in collaboration with Adventures with Agile. They are an international training and coaching company operating at the leading edge of the industry. To date, AWA have trained 8000+ people from 300+ organisations in 70+ countries and offer public trainings across the world from the UK to Europe and the USA.
Our Trainers
Our expert facilitators are able to spend more or less time on particular concepts as guided by participants so learning can be prioritised where it will be most valuable, and make sure that the core concepts are covered in the program.
Delivered virtually or in-person through back-of-the-room facilitation, we offer different training programs and courses that are engaging and interactive. Participants can sign-up for the publicly offered courses or private in-house sessions can be organised for groups within an organisation.