Change the Language, Change the Rules and Facilitate with Playfulness & Collab

Agenda:
1800-1830 - Arrival & Networking
1830-1930 - Talk 1 - Change the Language, Change the Rules
1930-1950 - Food and Refreshments
1950-2050 - Talk 2 - Facilitate with Playfulness and Collaboration

Talk 1: Change the Language, Change the Rules by Tom Hoyland

Synopsis: The language we use influences the way we see the world, how we work together and what we believe is possible. Want to find out how the structure of language, neuroscience and a bit of pseudoscience can help build a high-performing agile team? Then drop by for a case study on how to use Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) in agile teams, with real world examples, hints, tips and tricks.

With a career spanning software engineering, business analysis and digital transformation, Tom coaches a wide range of teams, weaving together agile values, language and psychological safety to build high performing, sustainable teams.

About the Speaker: A host at Agile Sheffield and a regular speaker at agile and product meetups, Tom enjoys presenting case studies, research and insights into successful agile transformations, team working and their metrics.

Talk 2: Facilitate with Playfulness and Collaboration by Chris Bexon

Synopsis: This workshop will focus on practicing various facilitation techniques for skillfully facilitating core Agile events with playfulness and collaboration.

Attendees will be put into groups to practice the techniques, and share their won techniques that have worked well for the benefit of all the attendees.

About the Speaker: Chris has over 20 years experience as a Developer, Scrum Master, Agile Transformation Coach, and Professional Scrum Trainer.

He is passionate about building high performing organisations and teams, growing Agile cultures, and enabling people to more efficiently and effectively deliver value.

Chris has worked in both the public and private sector business domains. His focus is to transform organisations to achieve a sustained competitive advantage by adopting agile principles and practices, and a culture of continuous improvement.

As a mentor and coach, he has worked with individuals and teams to develop technical skills, patterns and practices to improve alignment across the business.

Other:

As always food and refreshments will be provided.