Jurgen Appelo | 3/4.02.2022
9:30 - 5:30 | Sofia, Bulgaria
Invites you to a workshop about the Versatile organization
In this workshop, we are pioneers exploring important questions. We won’t have all the answers yet. But for sure, we make some crucial steps toward the future of work.
The workshop in Sofia, Bulgaria will be held on the 3rd and 4th of Februari 2022.
Venue: Sense Hotel
What comes after Management 3.0, SAFe, and the Spotify Model? Well, it’s not hard to see in which direction the world is moving: organizations that consist of networked individuals who work from anywhere, who form teams on the fly, who aim for objectives and achieve results, and make that a whole lotta fun for themselves. Such an organization can do anything!
All organizations need business agility and continuous innovation. But if you work exclusively with
dedicated teams that always need to go through forming, storming, and norming stages before they can
finally perform, you’re out of luck. That’s neither agile nor innovative. The accelerated pace of change
in the world asks for more fluidity of work structures and a switch from dedicated teams to dynamic
teaming.
In our new connected age, we need networked individuals who can team with each other on the fly and who
can fluidly collaborate and form flexible team structures depending on context.
With dynamic teaming, a business is better equipped to become a continuous learning organization.
However, this demands a culture of transparency and psychological safety and new approaches to
collaboration, motivation, and performance.
After a year of lockdowns, Covid-19 policies, and many people working from home, organizations call workers back to the office. But not everyone, and not all the time. In hybrid workplaces, most team members are at the office for a limited number of days and hours of the week. Some work only from home. Some only at the office. And many spend their working time at clients, coworking spaces, or coffee bars. But how should organizations manage that? When should everyone be at the office? How often should team members meet in person? What are the consequences for security, diversity, and performance? Can we still have static teams in a world of networked individuals? And how do we optimize creativity and productivity with team members spread across the country?
Objectives and Key Results seem to be the new Holy Grail. Many organizations are embracing the new
goal-setting framework that was invented at Intel and popularized by Google. At the same time, most
organizations are unwilling to let go of their Key Performance Indicators. After all, how can you achieve
objectives without targets and incentives? And then there is the North Star Metric: the highly focused
approach commonly used by startups and scale-ups to get high-performance, agile teams aligned around a
single team-wide metric.
And if this technique works for young businesses, then why not the larger ones? And does goal setting even
work when people are dynamically teaming and switching between contexts?
For many years, organizations have wondered how to motivate their workers. Average employee engagement has
been low for decades, and no employee engagement program seems to have a lasting effect. But it doesn’t have
to be like that. There are plenty of examples of organizations with very motivated and engaged workers. Many
of them, deliberate or not, rely on principles and practices that we also find in gamification.
Gamification is all about applying concepts and techniques from good game design. The purpose of games is to
give people a great time while doing some activities together. How is that any different from working
together as a team? But beware! Gamification comes with a dark side. We need to avoid addiction and
unintended consequences.
Give your career and expertise the push it deserves with a program that has been carefully designed to optimize your skills and make you an even better professional!
Pricing (excluding VAT):
You will receive an invoice which can be paid by bank transfer. If the workshop gets cancelled, the amount is fully refundable.
As a serial founder, successful entrepreneur, author, and speaker, Jurgen is pioneering management to help creative organizations survive and thrive in the 21st century. He offers concrete games, tools, and practices, so you can introduce better management, with fewer managers. He also offers a platform for you to share your practices and stories with the rest of the world.
Jurgen calls himself a creative networker. But sometimes he’s a writer, speaker, trainer, entrepreneur, illustrator, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, leader, freethinker, or… Dutch guy. Inc.com has called him a Top 50 Leadership Expert and a Top 100 Leadership Speaker. Since 2008, Jurgen writes a popular blog at NOOP.NL, offering ideas on the creative economy, agile management, organizational change, and personal development.
He is the author of the book Management 3.0, which describes the role of the manager in agile organizations; How to Change the World, which describes a supermodel for change management; Managing for Happiness, which offers you practical ideas to engage workers, improve work, and delight clients; and most recently, Startup, Scaleup, Screwup, which contains 50% inspiring stories and 50% practices to follow and dives into the major topics that business leaders and entrepreneurs are confronted with throughout the business lifecycle.
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