FACILITATION SKILLS for Agile Professionals
Be a more impactful, valued Agile leader by boosting your visual facilitation mindset, skillset and toolset!
7-8 September 2023 - Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
€1,200
Boost your Agile leadership skills with the help of visuals
How to embrace conflicts and courageous conversations
How to balance team autonomy and guidance
How to create shared understanding and alignment
How to fuel focus, engagement and energy
Unlock your team’s genius
Whether you’re at a startup, in government, or a multinational enterprise, your team could be even more Agiler by collaborating more visually.
This training course is ideal for:
- Managers who want to demonstrate collaborative leadership
- Agile team leaders and Scrum Masters who want to improve their teams’ ways of working
- Agile coaches and Consultants who want to add to their toolkit
- Product Managers and Product Owners who want to drive performance in teams and products
What’s included
Get hands-on experience from the best in Agile, visualisation, and change management.
Expect a once-in-a-lifetime experience
We’ve gathered 4 globally-renowned experts in Agile practice and visual thinking practice and designed an immersive adventure that is guaranteed to transform your thinking and approach.
- 2 full days of in-depth action-packed collaborative learning
- Time for focused discussions and activities to help you reflect and bring back more insight to your own work
- Visual templates, activities and other goodies to use with your team after the training
- Be encouraged by your community of like-minded change-makers, cage-shakers and Agile activists!
What’s more, as a group you will also co-create a Visual Agile Facilitation Playbook, based on what everyone learns, to take back and use with your own team!
Workshop outline
In this training, what you won’t learn is how to run Agile meetings.
What you will learn is a set of visual facilitation methods to deal with the pitfalls that can happen, and increase your value to the business even more. The visual aids provided will help you make the unspoken visual, and the unclarified visible.
Day 1
👋 Setting the scene
Introductions, agenda walk-through, materials and expectations
🤔 Visual Facilitation and Agile
We’ll level-set on what these terms mean, and gain a deeper understanding of the importance of facilitation and visualization in releasing more value and satisfaction in teams.
You’ll get started with markers and gain an introduction to the visual elements you’ll need to kick off your visual facilitation journey.
👀 Context - sensing and responding
No team, sprint, product or project exists in isolation. In this section, you’ll learn how to help your team:
- Deal with ‘group amnesia’ and capitalize on what is learned
- Embrace and deal with conflict and resistance positively
- See and address any ‘elephants in the room’
- Refresh the ritual, and go beyond the regular retrospectives and other meetings you might be running
🏆 Aspiration - setting visions, defining success
Reseach shows that ambitions made visual are more likely to be achieved. How do you create and visualize a vision together, in line with business strategy, and in a way that everyone involved has ‘skin in the game’? In this section you’ll learn how to:
- Increase ownership in your team
- Get the right people involved and speaking up at the right time in the right ways
- Get authentic alignment and make decisions together faster, by making goals and decisions visible
- Keep your team energized and motivated
Day 2
💡 Solution - building the right thing
Brainstorming has its critics, we still need to find opportunities, generate ideas, and make creative choices. In this section you’ll learn how to:
- Define, visualize and/or reframe the problem to be solved, to generate better problem statements
- Understand four types of creativity, and when to flex which type at the right time with the right people
- Deal with tricky behaviours when generating and prioritising ideas
➡️ Execution - working with heart and purpose
Agile ways of working are all about people and interactions over processes and tools. Visuals help teams to get a better view on the more intangible ‘people’ aspects of work – like dependencies and culture issues – so that your team can focus on doing their best work together. In this section, you’ll learn how to:
- Understand your team’s group dynamics, and how to use these dynamics to everyone’s advantage
- Help any team diagnose themselves, get healthy and stay healthy
- How to get clear roles and responsibilities (who ‘owns’ what...?)
- Build greater trust amongst team members
📙 Wrapping up
It’s important that we do everything we can to help this training convert into action and positive impact. So to help with that, we will create a Visual Agile Facilitation Playbook together, for you to take back to your team!
Harness the power of visual facilitation
Running meetings using visual thinking, methods and templates helps people to listen better, think better and communicate better. Why? Because everything is visible, for everyone to read and connect with.
You will learn and use visual facilitation techniques and templates to:
- Organise conversations visually, so that everyone can easily see where every meeting is going
- Reframe, clarify and summarise important information, so everyone will have a shared understanding faster
- Get your team thinking and talking visually, in ways where words aren’t enough
When the invisible becomes visible, conversations turn into real action and real results!
This training is brought to you by:
Your instructors
Axelle Vanquaillie
Legendary Graphic Recorder, Facilitator and Visual Consultant, Founder of Drawify
Axelle is based in Belgium, but travels all around the world as an in-demand graphic recorder and graphic facilitator. Her background is in HR and communications, where she discovered the magic of (live) visual storytelling for business purposes. She has a unique combination of business drawing, facilitation and strategic skills, with a powerful ability to clarify the most complex strategic business content, and transform viewers’ perspectives.
Axelle is also the Founder of Drawify, an online platform jam-packed with 1000s of hand-drawn images and templates to help anyone share their ideas and tell their stories visually, for more engagement and memorability. She’s also the author of Start to Draw.
Ben Crothers
Master Facilitator, Creator of Atlassian Team Playbook, Author of Presto Sketching
Ben is renowned for his business illustration, facilitation, and graphic recording. As a designer for over 25 years, he learned the importance of harnessing creativity, experimentation and learning, and whip-smart communication, to create products and services that are more usable, useful and enjoyable.
This background has made him an excellent facilitator for over 15 years. As an independent consultant at Bright Pilots, he enjoys helping teams of all kinds find and solve problems better, think and communicate together better, and ship faster. Ben has been invested in Agile teams and Agile practice since 2010, and was one of the original creators of the much-loved Atlassian Team Playbook. He is also the author of Presto Sketching, as well as Draw in 4 and 50 Remote-Friendly Icebreakers.
Olina Glindevi
Highly regarded Agile Coach and Team Trainer, Director of The Visual Agile Coach
Olina hails from Stockholm, Sweden, and is a creative visual thinker, communicator and coach who specializes in Agile ways of working. As a Visual Agile Coach, she helps people and organizations leverage the power of visuals for improved communication, engagement and delivery of value. Her deep experience in Agile roles – including Agile Coach and Scrum Master – combined with her creative and artistic qualities, has allowed her to develop new ways to raise engagement in teams, creating productive and fun work experiences.
Ben Walder
Sought-after Agile Coach in Change and Transformation, and Future Ways of Working
Ben is a change and transformation professional with a strong track record of delivery in the Financial Services industry, especially in Banking and Asset Management. His background in project management and programme management led him to several roles as Head of Change Management, where he has gained (and shared his) experience in new product and proposition development, operating model and organizational design, operational and regulatory change, including AIFMD, RDR, FATCA, MiFID II, UCITS V and BREXIT.
Ben always sees Change Management as a way to make a positive difference and provide value for business, employees and customers alike, and have fun along the way.
Join us in Antwerp!
The Facilitation Skills for Agile Professionals training course will be held at The Beacon building, in the heart of Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪.
Location:
The Beacon
Sint-Pietersvliet 7
Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, BE, 2000
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€1,200
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This training course gives you access to:
- 2 full days of in-depth action-packed collaborative learning
- Time for focused discussions and activities in 3 different topics of your choice
- Templates and other goodies to use with your team after the training
- Be encouraged by your community of like-minded change-makers, cage-shakers and Agile activists!
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