We are delighted to announce that Diana Larsen will be offering three workshops at sinnvollFÜHREN:
- Partnering with Decision Makers: Build your Influence to inspire change & lead leaders
- Stop Wasting Time on Ineffective Retrospectives! Start Pursuing Real Continuous Improvement!
- Leaders working together on wicked issues: Leadership retrospective circles
Diana Larsen is an icon in the Agile community and co-author of the following books:
Partnering with Decision Makers: Build your Influence to inspire change & lead leaders
Diana Larsen leads this workshop to help you learn about galvanizing leaders to action. Learn to influence peers, managers, and senior leaders. Inspire positive change toward the outcomes decision makers need and want. Partner with decision makers to increase value creation, customer satisfaction, and team engagement. Influence them to invest in business agility in ways that count for their business. Draft a plan for investing in resilient learning teams fit for your organization’s purpose.
Included:
Up to one hour individual mentoring with Diana for each participant after completing the workshop.
Prerequisite:
- Experience in leadership role
- Attend the workshop with specific leaders and teams in mind
- Willingness to share your experiences with other participants
Audience:
- Coaches & Consultants
- Leaders & Managers
- Middle & Senior Executives
- Team Leads & Mentors
Whatever leadership position you hold, Diana’s insights can help.
Outline
- Introduction
- Discovering Opportunities
- Finding the Right Decision Makers
- Partnering with Decision Makers:
- Conversation Topics & Practice
- Fluency & Business Benefits
- Lunch
- Assessment – Understand the System
- Investments & Investment Planning for Resilient Learning Teams
- Investment Planning for Leaders
- Improvement Cycle
- Planning Next Steps
Stop Wasting Time on Ineffective Retrospectives!
Start Pursuing Real Continuous Improvement!
In 2006, Esther Derby and Diana Larsen published, „Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great,“ the first agile-focused guide to team continuous improvement. Time marched on. We learned some things. People told us stories about their retrospectives, and how those meetings had wasted team time. They also told us about the ways retrospectives had built stronger teams, better products, and enhanced relationships across their organizations. Coaches told us about the anti-patterns they had experienced, AND about the activities they tried that made a real difference in team performance. We added another member to our writing team, along with more information about teams working (and retrospecting) remotely from home. The result is „Agile Retrospectives, 2nd edition.“
Come to this workshop to discover how to get the most and best continuous improvement from the new view of team retrospectives from seventeen years in the future.
Prerequisite:
- Experience in leadership role
- Attend the workshop with specific leaders and teams in mind
- Willingness to share your experiences with other participants
Audience:
- Team leaders and meeting facilitators
- Scrum masters
- Team coaches
- Senior engineers with mentoring responsibilities
Outline
- Introduction and Overview
- What’s changed about retrospectives
- Knowledge work and learning work
- Team Retrospectives – the usual
- Team Retrospectives – new potential, shorter, more frequent
- Lunch break
- Retrospectives with greater scope
- Continuously improving – with new or junior teams
- Continuously improving – experienced and senior teams
- Your plan for your situation
- Accessing resources
Leaders working together on wicked issues: Leadership retrospective circles
Wicked issues come back over and over again. You tried something that you thought would fix them. For a while, they went away. And yet, here it is again. That bottleneck, that obstacle, that barrier to performance, that working relationship that just won’t work, and so on. Turns out you can’t address it effectively on your own.
Diana Larsen leads retrospective circles particularly designed for people in leadership roles who face wicked issues. Join her in a circle to build leadership team co-intelligence, tapping into her wisdom from working with organizations and leaders for over 40 years, then adding the hard won knowledge about how your organization works from you and your peers. Bringing all together in a nutritious conversational stew of previously unexplored and unexpected ideas and willingness. Leave with new views and action plans to tackle your current or next wicked issue.
Audience:
- Senior leaders/managers in organizations with wicked issues
- Middle leaders/managers in organizations with wicked issues
- Front line leaders/managers
- Operations leaders
- Staff leaders
Outline
- Introduction to the process
- Exploring the questions
- Discovering working issue
- Generating insights into the issue effects
- Examining potential next steps from multiple perspectives
- Refining and selecting initial experiments and next steps
- Setting the timeline for reflecting on outcomes
- Celebrating the power of co-intelligence
Your trainer and workshop host
Diana Larsen
Leadership Agility Advisor
sinnvollFÜHRENPartnering with Decision Makers
23. Juni 2025, with Diana Larsen
Purse Real Continuous Improvement
24. Juni 2025, with Diana Larsen
Leaders working together on wicked issues: Leadership retrospective circles
25. Juni 2025, with Diana Larsen
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You can book your place on a workshop day for €695 (plus 20% VAT = €839).
As a participant, you will get the necessary work materials and seminar catering on-site (lunch incl. a drink, morning and afternoon snacks, and seminar beverages).
The training takes place with a minimum of 6 participants. The number of participants is limited to 12, so we can guarantee optimal conditions for the practical exercises.
Accommodation nearby
We recommend the Hotel Ruby Marie, which is only about 3-5 minutes from the seminar location. The Motel One am Westbahnhof is also easily accessible.
Do you still have questions?
We would be happy to tell you more. Call us (+43-650-3816838) or send us an e-mail.