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Team Foundations: Unlocking High Performance
Mobilise your high performance team with this Sooner Safer Happier 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
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. e.g Monday and Tuesday, 6hrs daily, 9am-4pm with an hour break or Monday - Thursday, 3hrs daily, 9am-12pm
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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.
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:
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.
Chris Hughes
Chris is a business agility leader and coach with over 25 years experience. His experience spans a number of roles and industries and is a key driver in defining business strategy, product development and the transformation of companies in the tech, travel, entertainment and financial industry. Chris is a strong advocate for customer centric approaches to product design, development, marketing and sales.
Jonathan Smart
Jon is co-founder and CEO of SSH. Jon is a business agility practitioner, thought leader, and coach. Jon has been an agile and lean practitioner since the early 1990s. Jon helps large organisations deliver better value sooner, safer and happier through better ways of working. He is the lead author of the award winning and bestselling 'Sooner Safer Happier: Patterns and Antipatterns for Business Agility'.
Kim Atherton
Kim, with a background as a Chartered Occupational Psychologist, works as a leadership consultant with senior leaders in more than 40 countries. Kim has deep expertise in leadership assessment, development and training. Kim is also the CEO and founder of Just3Things, OKR software which was developed while she was the Chief People Officer at Ovo Energy.
Marcus Braszell
Marcus is a Partner and Americas region leader. His extensive experience leading change in large and complex environments spans financial services, retail, travel, government and defence sectors. Marcus has led business agility at National Australia Bank (NAB), WooliesX, Latitude Financial, and Walmart Canada. A pragmatic, forward thinking senior leader with deep c-level engagement experience, Marcus possesses a commercial approach to innovation and a strong drive to foster people-focused and adaptive organisations.
Marcus Ward
Marcus is an experienced Business Agility Consultant, Coach, Trainer and Facilitator of Lean, Agile and Organisational Change with a passion for enabling organisations of all sizes to achieve high performance through pragmatic use of Agile, Lean and collaborative techniques. Marcus holds over 15 years’ experience across various sectors in Agile/Waterfall Portfolio, Program and Change Management.
Maria Muir
Maria is a Partner and Asia-Pacific region leader. Maria is an enterprise agility pioneer and has been working with early adopters in Asia-Pacific since 2010. She is a pragmatic, outcomes-focused, people-first leader with extensive consulting, start-up, and leadership experience. Maria has led and advised transformations at 10+ ASX200 companies across sectors including financial services, telecommunications, retail, and energy & resources.
Mark Hills
Mark is a Partner and EMEA region leader. He is a highly capable, outcome focused enterprise agility partner coach and practitioner with over 20 years’ blue-chip experience. Mark thrives on the intellectual and people challenge Ways of Working engagements present and would describe his mindset as ‘player coach’, keen to lead by example.
Matt Turner
Matt has over 20 years leading IT and business services, coaching and training teams in lean and agile practices, across various industries and sectors. Matt is fascinated by enterprise flow, the psychology of change, and behavioural economics. Accredited BVSSH and Kanban University Trainer. Contributing author of Agile an Unexpected Journey.
Myles Ogilvie
Myles is co-founder and COO of SSH. As a principal business agility coach and trainer with many years' experience across industries, Myles advocates no-nonsense problem-solving, seeks to build transparency, improve collaboration, and enable outcomes that produce Better Value Sooner Safer Happier. Myles' special interest is patterns that foster a safer, leaner and more innovative controls culture.
Zsolt Berend
Zsolt is an agility practitioner coach and trainer. He helps global organisations on their journey to achieving Better Value Sooner Safer Happier. He began his early career as a fellow of research in astronomy, and then spent 20 years across industry sectors in various roles applying agile and lean practices. His passion is data, measurements, insights and the creation of learning organizations.
