Agile Event Session

Sustainable Agility

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Abstract/Description

You spend the majority of your waking hours at work; how do you feel after a long workday? Do you feel energized or drained by the hours you spend and the people you work with?

For agility to be sustainable, we need to do more than improve throughput, cost and adaptation. These important achievements can only take root and grow when people are operating at their best. Best does not mean “fastest possible”, it means a sustainable healthy pace that allows our creativity, passion, individual talents and collective teamwork to shine. Best means that both our teams and the people that make them up are healthy and thriving.

People, and by extension teams, have access to something Susan M. Heathfield calls Discretionary Energy, which is our ability to go beyond what is required, actually lean in and thrive. When people thrive, they don’t only serve the company better; they serve themselves better. They satisfy their own heart and soul. This energy is only available when people and teams are thriving.

This workshop will show you how to improve individual and team health using an Integral 4-quadrant perspective. You’ll learn how to assess and impact the health of individuals, including yourself, and how to create a sustainable Agile organization whether you are a team member, coach or leader.

Additional Resources

Speaker(s) may be willing to present this session at local group meetings and other events.

Agile2023
Workshop
Advancing

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