The Agility Narratives

Martin West with co-hosts: Satish Grampurohit and Janet Mrenica
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The Agility Narratives is a podcast and community book initiative. We hold space for leading changemakers and enterprise Agile leaders to share their Agility narratives and related insights on the challenges and potential solutions to achieving agility. With this content as input, we want to turn the light of inspect & adapt on ourselves and start a co-creation journey together and see where this takes us.

  1. 11/03/2023

    Gen-AI: 3 Essential Conversations for Senior Leaders to lead complex change

    As 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 tec...

  2. 08/26/2023

    Why 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 conscious? How can leaders guide their teams to evolve in a way that not only meets the demands of today but fosters resilience, creativity, and innovation for the future? Join Martin West, a guide to evolving adaptive conscious teams, in this live audio event, as we explore the essence of adaptive conscious teams and what we can learn as part of this journey. What You'll Discover: Understanding Adaptive Conscious Teams: Delve into what it means for teams to be adaptive and conscious and why such a shift could benefit your team The Evolutionary Process: Explore the steps that leaders and teams must take to evolve consciously, adapt to changes, and co-create solutions. Practical Insights: Learn actionable strategies to foster a culture that emphasizes empathy, collaboration, continuous learning, and innovation. Real-world Examples: Benefit from case studies and insights from research and Martin’s experience with various organizations, highlighting successes, challenges, and lessons learned. The structure of Martin’s 20 minute talk: - The Need for Adaptive Conscious Teams (ACTs) - The Principles of Adaptive Conscious Teams - The Role of Leadership in culture change - Cultivating Quality Holding Spaces for Adaptability Who Should Attend? Leaders and Managers: Those who are steering teams and looking for innovative ways to enhance collaboration, creativity, and adaptability. HR Professionals: Individuals involved in people development and looking to create a supportive environment for growth and transformation. Team Members: Anyone who is part of a team and wants to understand how to contribute to an adaptive and conscious working environment. Entrepreneurs and Business Owners: Those leading their organizations and keen to implement strategies that foster agile, resilient, and engaged teams. Why Attend? Join this discussion to deepen meaningful conversations within your team, share your insights, and explore the benefits of co-evolving together. You'll gain valuable insights and practical tools to evolve your team's dynamics. Whether you're a seasoned leader or an emerging talent, this session will inspire you to think differently about team collaboration and leadership, equipping you to start your journey towards adaptive conscious teams. Registration: Secure your spot today. Be part of the movement towards adaptive conscious leadership, and start your learning journey today. See you there!

    Why evolve with adaptive conscious teams?

  3. 09/02/2022

    Charly Cox's Agility Narrative on Climate Change Coaching

    We 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 s...

  4. 08/12/2022

    Liz West's Agility Narrative on the enneagram

    Thanks 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 discou...

  5. 07/06/2022

    Kai Mosebach's Agility Narrative on vertical development

    Kai 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 missionary. 14:17 understanding vertical versus horizontal development.  15:38 Kai started to lead - own shadow groups and experiments in leadership. 19:11 reflecting on his first experience of scrum/agile in terms of integral colors and structures. 23:35 vertical or mindset shifts can't be taught, you have to experience it. 26:46 What is the right methodology for the team? Get dragged v hold spacing.  31:06 Bring people into understanding - working with the heart, body and spirit. 35:21 Breakthrough moments - trust & opening and the team wanting it. 37:55 Who is the protagonist? Person who sees the pain and realizes the opportunity of development and is prepared to take that step - "It hurts more but it bothers you less" (Wilber) 39:51 The world is not the best world we can have. 41:49 You realize your theme over time - purpose - integral assessments and making development visible. 45:49 Measuring vertical development is an important step in building more effective happy teams. 46:58 Villains identified include i) Integral scene is cognitive and theoretical - it is meant to be lived ii) limited focus on shadow practice iii) perceptive on what is better... 49:17 Change and immunity - Robert Keagan - shadow work for business 50:46 Teal - bringing wholeness - structure and unconscious. 51:42 Is the framework holding space for itself or for the people? Gives ideas and structure Yet people are outside. 53:07 - Deliberately development organization DBO focuses on i) creating space, ii) shadow work and iii) it is centered on people 54:48 What is at stake here for your clients and for the industry to not take action? 56:21 Cultures and mindsets get built and our role in that. 59:13 What would be your call to action to a leadership team that feels stuck? 1:02:23 Integration of the five elements and Kai’s hope for the future, an unfolding universal v fights of conscious levels. Kai hopes that we realize the next steps. 1:04:23 The reality is each person, team, organizations and the world has to go through all development stages. All stages are good. 1:05:42 Three things to consider about vertical development. 1) explore it and out of this take action ii) Shadow - taking care of these is important (understand projection); iii) express emotion - such as understanding anger as a need for better system 1:08:22 Reflection on vertical development, what it means for agile implementation and this podcast. 1:11:22 - Substance & form - to see what has not been seen - placing people at the centre of development 1:12:08 Authenticity, a key message. 1:12:55 Structure has limited space for people. 1:15:00 Agility master (coach) & scrum master roles. 1:16:10 Wrap up & thanks Kai - https://www.integralworks.ch/en/About-us.html https://www.integralworks.ch/en/The-Modulator.html (view of methods across integral colours) Theory of Everything Integral Business Spirituality - Ken Wilber Immunity for change - Robert Kegan Want to learn more about the co-hosts - Martin's LinkedIn Profile and Janet's LinkedIn profile

    Kai Mosebach's Agility Narrative on vertical development

  6. 06/09/2022

    Klaus Nielsen's Agility Narrative on Agile portfolio management gap

    Klaus 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 pattern that will evolve for future podcasts. Enjoy - Klaus has great knowledge of this topic whether working at team, portfolio or organization level. I wonder whether it is the commercial engines of these methodologies that will solve the scaling challenge or will it be the customers? Check out Klaus's book at Amazon or LinkedIn profile or company website. Want to learn more about the co-hosts - Martin's LinkedIn Profile and Janet's LinkedIn profile 0:00 Welcome 0:48 Early part of Klaus journey 3:11 Klaus's experience with predictive product management 4:18 Introduction to Agile methods as part of predictive projects 5:16 Approach to Agile - Mindset, Lean, Foundational writing, tools, artifacts... trace it back to Agile Manifesto, Lean... 7:08 Initially it was Agile at team level, now it is about many teams, portfolios & transformation 8:03 Is it the structure or the mindset? Challenging of mindset change 9:22 Best practice, adoption of methods including portfolio management and going full hearted 11:02 What in SAFe is not having Agile portfolio management 11:56 Who is the protagonist in your agility narrative? Leaders as part of a top down implementation 13:21 Having the type of conversations prior to buying and adopting a methodology 14:24 Does Agile allow for experimentation at team levels? Or is it the structure? 15:54 Do you see Xscale as descaling or as another form of scaling? 16:33 Adopting pattern as an approach to adopting a methodology. Xscale and Disciplined Agile 18:30 Working with people and type of dialogues or the type of conversation that support the scale processes 19:50 Does the type of dialogue impact the end goal? 20:33 Acceptance of constraints outside a team's control 22:08 What needs to happen in the team to leadership conversations for that relationship to be more effective? 23:18 Klaus's theme of agility narrative 24:46 What is your calling in the agile world? A new one every day 25:50 What are the constraints to being able to respond effectively in your responsive adaptive approach? 26:47 What are the constraints that people in the value management office are facing? 28:06 How to manage leads us to key capabilities? And Attention to how we listen? 30:06 Professional judgement - tailoring of frameworks 31:22 What is at stake here? Life and death for an organization. 33:30 What is Klaus's call to action to our group of leaders? 35:12 Summary of Klaus's approach. From where you stand, what are the threats and opportunities you see? 37:53 How do you see us progressing over the next five years? 39:19 End and the Thank You's 39:35 Chatting about various topics

    Klaus Nielsen's Agility Narrative on Agile portfolio management gap

  7. 05/14/2022

    Christopher Avery's Agility narrative on living a life at choice

    For 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 program 00:06:17 The search for integrity 00:07:44 Christopher settled on s...

  8. 04/16/2022

    Ken Cloke's Agility Narrative on the power of conflict resolution & mediation

    0:44 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 south 2:29 Part of the antiwar movement trying to stop the war in Vietnam and represented GIs 2:48 Legal approaches could not complete the journey 4:00 Legal path - civil rights, law professor, judge led to a point of personal crisis 4:33 A lecture on mediation changed Ken's life. The solution he saw conflict resolution to be. 5:59 Reflecting on last 42 years as a conflict resolver 7:11 The first few steps post that neighborhood meeting...  8:35 Understanding protest as a law making process and evolving towards collaborative problem solving 9:53 The law is inherently adversarial - a zero sum game 10:33 What mediating dangerously is about - as said by Gerta "the dangers is in life are infinite, and among them is safety" 11:50 Connecting mediation and systems design  13:18 Organizational conflicts as indicators of what is not working 14:42 Inside us, between us and around us. Conflict is required for paradigm shift 16:28 Conflict is a dance of opposites - inviting the other to a new dance with new music 18:02 Respect and disrespect - Will Smith and Chris Rock 19:59 Mechanisms of conflict operate at all scales 21:30 We can solve problems collaboratively with one another 21:58 Key tenets of Ken's Agility Narrative - An agile response - be present, deeply listen, and help the other person reach their point of vulnerability 24:15 What tools do you bring to the mediation? The tools of inner awareness, mindfulness 25:13 Empathy - A platform to find out what is true for the other. Relational empathy - experience energy flow between people 26:22 Approaching systemic conflicts is multifaceted needing a different set of skills 28:27 Three generations of systems design  29:31 2nd Gen - Design leadership systems (that reduce conflict resolution) 31:15 3rd Gen - higher order conflicts once we learn to resolve existing conflicts 33:27 In your agility narrative, who/what is the protagonist? Each of us. 34:37 What is your theme for your agility narrative? 35:25 The artful power of questions 37:12 The magic in mediation 38:17 Asking pivot questions as part of an organization 40:38 In your agility narrative, who or what are the villains? Your own worst self 41:18 The reality of being a protagonist and a villain - The dance of Opposites in Narrative structure of conflict stories 42:39 Destabilizing the conflict story (victim, perpetrator and rescuer) 43:48 Another two looks at conflict stories 45:39 What is at stake if people don't learn these techniques.  Jean-Paul Sartre "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you" 46:38 Call to action to a group of key organizational stakeholders who feel stuck - Multiple Truths  48:01 The power of a planning process... may be constrained 49:49 Discussion of different forms of conversation 51:24 The value of dialogue rather than monologue AND Making Bread 53:02 The facilitator of dialogue plays a number of roles - including teasing out diversity 53:51 Threat, opportunities and mediation without borders 54:47 Ukraine and Russian war - the large scale organization of small scale hatreds - the power of the methodology that leads to war 56:19 What do you lose in your capacity to prevent war by making that assumption? 57:50 Our task as conflict resolvers is really simple. And we need a political system capable of mediation. 58:25 My brief wrap up and thank you to Ken for his agility narrative Learn more about Ken Cloke https://www.kencloke.com/ https://www.kencloke.com/books https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ken+cloke+and+vikram+mediator

    Ken Cloke's Agility Narrative on the power of conflict resolution & mediation
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The Agility Narratives is a podcast and community book initiative. We hold space for leading changemakers and enterprise Agile leaders to share their Agility narratives and related insights on the challenges and potential solutions to achieving agility. With this content as input, we want to turn the light of inspect & adapt on ourselves and start a co-creation journey together and see where this takes us.

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  • Creator
    Martin West with co-hosts: Satish Grampurohit and Janet Mrenica
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2023
  • Episodes
    18
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