
This course is difficult and is for advanced practitioners! It is not a substitute for reading the book. I encourage you to read the book before taking this course.
Identify red, amber, orange, green, and teal stages in the workplace; apply them to three interactions; note mixed development within organizations; and post your stage assessment on the discussion board.
Identify and nurture your ABC team to build a power block that can move red or amber organizations toward agility, using explicit rules and team agreements in a rules-based environment.
Identify an orange organization by its results-driven focus on quarterly objectives and financial metrics, where traditional managers prioritize shareholder value, annual reviews, and management by objectives.
Discover three coaching tools for orange organizations: drive and lead with visibility, align goals, metrics, and activities, and implement a communication plan to sustain agile transformation.
Spot a green organization by servant leadership, welcoming coaching and tolerating mistakes as learning, while valuing diversity and multiple stakeholders like employees, the environment, and government beyond shareholder value.
Bring teal insights into green organizations through practical coaching that addresses power, budgeting, and people. Explore how teal and green approaches compare by reflecting on sections and David Chilcot's responses.
Build consensus in large groups by linking action to discussion, embracing emergent group dynamics, and applying nonviolent communication and democracy.
Examine how green, amber, and orange mindsets shape collaboration, and learn to balance internal dynamics to enable healthier cross-level change and authentic organizational growth.
Examine servant leadership beyond father-figure mindsets, cultivate inner work, and enable fluid, collaborative leadership across teams with empirical learning and retrospectives.
Explore trust-based organizations and how flexible, fluid structures adapt to momentary needs, balancing command and control with consensus-driven approaches, sense and respond over inspect and adapt.
This is a presentation that I gave at Exa Corporation. It draws on Laloux's Stages of Development. It contains a simple exercise that you can do in your organization.
This is the lecture I gave at Exa corporation. Follow along with the slides in the previous lecture. As an exercise, adapt this presentation to your organization.
This course describes how I improved my agile coaching by reading Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux.
In this course you will learn:
The course will take approximately two weeks to complete if you do all of the exercises.
The course is divided into three main sections:
This course is hard! It is not for beginners. I expect you to be an advanced Scrum Master and to have read the first 100 pages of Reinventing Organizations. The course does not provide a cookie cutter approach or a list of step-by-step instructions. Instead, it challenges you to integrate the learning into your own coaching practice. If you decide to take this course, be prepared to work hard. You should take this course only if you want to take advantage of the insights that I have gleaned about coaching from reading Reinventing Organizations.