Accelerate speed to market with customer-driven agile solutions
“Regardless of the product, industry regulations, or global distribution, any enterprise can gain the customer understanding necessary for successful innovation by developing an agile, customer-focused mindset throughout the organisation.”
Andrea Darabos
Principal + Founder
Services
Consulting
Gain the lean advantage other enterprise-level organisations have achieved through our transformative assessment and programme design. We work with a network of diverse agilists because a one-size-fits-all approach really means one-size-fits-nobody. We aren’t tied to a particular methodology, freeing us to help you find the approach that will work for your organisation.
Training
On its own or combined with our consulting services, levelling up team skills to deliver better products quickly and reliably is often the best place to start. No boring lectures here. Our classes are fun, energising, and interactive, using techniques that make learning practical. We offer virtual and in- person private and public training to fit your needs.
Available Public Courses
Become a Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt in less than 3 months with the help of our mentoring and accelerated learning. On your 1-week Lean Six Sigma (LSS) Black Belt Course, you will learn the key mindsets and techniques which create customer-focused continuous value delivery in your enterprise. You will have a chance to practice a repeatable step by step process (DMAIC), which generates predictable business results when applied to any new or existing business process or service. You will identify key business improvement metrics - so that when you communicate these metrics with clarity, you will empower and motivate everyone in your business to generate improvements at scale. Lastly, you will learn to see improvement as a process rather than as an end state - and be able to instil this mentality in the teams and businesses that you manage.
The Course Price Includes
1 license for our Yellow Belt Lean Six Sigma refresher self-paced online course (worth 500 EUR),
1 x 5 days Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Course with Live Instruction,
1 attempt to take your IASSC LSS Black Belt Certification Online Exam (worth 500 EUR) and
1 expert review of your LSS Black Belt Certification Project Implementation and 1 mid-term mentor feedback (worth 1000 EUR).
Who is This Course For?
Process Improvement Specialists — They analyze and streamline processes, identifying areas for improvement and implementing strategies for increased value creation.
Project Leads — They manage process improvement projects, change projects, ensuring delivery of measurable results.
Lean Six Sigma Experts, Consultants — They provide expert guidance in Lean Six Sigma implementation, conducting assessments and delivering sustainable business improvements.
Continuous Improvement and Customer Centricity Facilitators — They promote a culture of innovation, provide training, and champion customer value–centric improvement initiatives.
COOs and Operations Managers — They oversee business operations, applying Lean Six Sigma methodologies to drive performance improvements and achieve organisational goals.
Quality Assurance Leads — They establish and maintain quality standards, conduct audits, and drive continuous improvement to enhance product/service quality and customer satisfaction.
Agile Leadership - Management 3.0 Foundations Workshop
How can we create and inspire an adaptive networked organisation?
The Management 3.0 Foundation workshop covers the theory and the practical aspects of the leadership required to achieve success as an adaptive networked organisation.
After this immersive program, you will have a solid foundation of skills to create enabling conditions and practices of change in your organisation:
Describe the difference between a Management 1.0 and a Management 3.0 leadership style and what it means to be an Agile Leader
Identify a better approach on how to recognise and deal with complexity and uncertainty
Actively influence and contribute to the 6 important aspects of leadership in an organisation (see the Management 3.0 model below)
Create an environment which engages everyone in participation and involves people in relevant decisions in the organisation
Experience hands-on practices from the agile leadership toolbox that you can apply in your 1:1s, group meetings and in various organisational development situations
Identify your own areas of development for your leadership
How can we gain clarity and focus by setting business goals, which are measurable and data-driven?
How can we create a culture of continuous discovery and delivery?
If your cross-functional product team is struggling with multi-tasking or reacting to multiple stakeholder-requests-of-the-day, then the A Practical Introduction to OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) course is for you. During this 1-day workshop, we cover the practical aspects of goal-setting and goal alignment in an adaptive product-based organisation.
After this workshop, you will have a solid foundation of skills to use strategic and team goals in your organisation:
Describe the key differences between traditional goal-setting and the OKRs practice
Identify a better approach to driving product strategy and execution based on goals that drive experimentation and validation
Actively measure progress towards strategic goals - thereby connecting operative work with strategic priorities
Create an environment which engages everyone in defining experiments towards common goals
Experience hands-on practices and product team examples from the OKR toolbox, originally developed by Intel and later applied by Google and many others
Identify your own areas of development for your (product) leadership using OKRs
Why should you attend this "Training from the Back of the Room" course?
Maybe you've been a trainer for a while and are looking for a better way? Wouldn't it be nice to have a clear 4-step process and a well-stocked toolbox that would help you engage your learners throughout your training process? How could you harness the latest research findings in the neuroscience of learning to better retain and use the knowledge they gain from your training?
Training from the BACK of the Room! offers you all this and much more.
The official “Training from the BACK of the Room” (TBR) Practitioner Course is a globally recognised, interactive train-the-trainer course aimed at all trainers, teachers, instructors, learning developers or facilitators.
What's in It for You?
During this 2-day course, you will learn how to apply Accelerated Learning and Instructional Design to create memorable and engaging learning experiences which your learners will remember for life. Whether you are new to training or are an experienced practitioner, you will leave the course with actionable takeaways, such as:
Design well structured, clear course content
Build high quality, participatory learning experiences
Deliver training that your learners will remember and recall for life
Set yourself up for a successful training
This two-day course is tailored for professionals in human resources, product management, people management, delivery management, and agile change management roles. Participants will gain hands-on experience in applying design thinking principles to enhance problem-solving skills, foster innovation, and drive positive change for their customers within their respective domains.
This 2-day workshop aims to equip professionals with a deep understanding of the design thinking process, master the mindsets of the 5 key steps: Empathise, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test.
This OpenSpace Agility (OLN-OSA1) workshop is a specially designed full day course that takes you through understanding OpenSpace Technology, the pattern of Inviting Leadership and bringing it all together in the use of OpenSpace Agility as the most effective and engaging transformation technique to bring Agility to your company.
This course also teaches how to achieve very high levels of employee engagement in your Agile adoption.
