POSTPONED - Solution Focus: Generating Change without Generating Resistance

In your work as an Agile Leader, Agile Coach or Scrum Master, do people ever resist change?

Do they just want things to stay the same? Are they sceptical about the specific changes you propose? Or do they say yes but never actually make the changes you’ve agreed?

Whatever your experience….. Would you like quicker and easier ways to make change happen?

In this workshop we’ll explore an Agile way to generate change without generating resistance. It’s called “Solutions Focused Brief Coaching”, and it’s quite possibly the most powerful Agile tool you’ve never heard of!

We’ll cover:
• Is it even possible to have Change without Resistance?
• Examples of Change we’d like to bring about
• Waterfall Change and Agile Change
• The Zone of Productive Change – and how to expand it
• A 7 step model for Generating Change without generating Resistance

This is a practical workshop, so please bring along a live example of change you’re wanting to generate – where there either is or could be some resistance.

As we go through the workshop you’ll be applying the model to your specific example, generating new perspectives and possible action steps. The aim is that by the end of the workshop you’ll have identified a small step you can take back at work to really make a difference.

Roy Marriott is an Agile Leadership Coach. He helps leaders and team deliver better results more quickly, in ways that are more enjoyable and more engaging. He uses “Solutions Focused Brief Coaching” methods to achieve quicker and easier progress, without generating resistance. He also trains leaders, managers and coaches to use these methods themselves, in order to make change “go viral” in organisations.

Roy started coaching professionally in 1993, and has been training leaders, managers and coaches since 2005. He has developed a number of coaching models that are in use around the world, focused on applications such as Change without Resistance, Feedback, Psychological Safety, Negotiation, Delegation, Time Mastery and Resilience.

He started his career with a degree in Computer Science from Cambridge University. He was a research engineer at BT and HP Research Labs, and consulted for BBC, Acorn (now ARM) and Phillips.

Roy has coached and trained leaders and coaches from organisations such as ARM, Bain Consulting, Bupa, Cambridge University, DisplayLink, European Space Agency, European Patent Office, IdeaGen, Microsoft, NHS, Nestle, National Australia Bank, VW and many others around the world.