Posts by Liz Nilsen
Getting ready for the next big challenge
Next Tuesday we launch the “next edition” of our online course, Building an Agile Economy. Every leader in every community and region needs to be thinking now about how to…
Read MoreTry out an online course – for free
Today we’re launching a free one-week course: Conversations that Matter – An Introduction to Agile Leadership. If you’ve been thinking about taking one of other online courses, this will give…
Read MoreLearn the skills of agile leadership
In Strategic Doing: Ten Skills for Agile Leadership, we describe a set of specific practices that anyone can use to foster collaborative conversations – especially when facing challenging times, when…
Read MoreNew Times, New Skills, New Platforms – New Course!
Who would have imagined a few months ago that (for many of us) all of our work would happen from in front of screens in our homes? That’s where we…
Read MoreDiversity Drives Innovation – But Not the Kind You Think.
We’re finding more and more value in the concept of “strategic diversity” – that is, the way in which team members’ cognitive preferences shape their roles on the team. Learning…
Read MoreNeed to Communicate Complex Ideas? Introducing CommPlexity
Many of us work not only work with complex ideas, we need to explain them to others in clear, compelling ways. We’re rolling out a new offering to help. The…
Read MoreStrategic Diversity gives practitioners a new tool to maximize the impact
We’re rolling out a new tool: Strategic Diversity. Strategic Diversity builds on the idea of the S-Curve. As we discuss in our workshops, an S-Curve is a useful model for…
Read MoreLab Releases New Research on Effectiveness of Agile Strategy
Last week, we released a paper and a presentation at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) conference. From 2013-2016, we worked with the Pathways program of the National Center…
Read MorePHN + partners in the Sunshine Coast pioneer Strategic Doing in healthcare
The PHN Central Queensland, Wide Bay and Sunshine Coast is one of seven in Queensland and they held their first Strategic Doing training and workshop session over two-days last 14-15…
Read MoreSunshine Coast Chamber Alliance starts 2017 with Strategic Doing
A re-energised committed core group have agreed to launch a six-month experiment in agile strategy with their first 30/30 meeting in January 2017 and had four pathfinder projects lead by…
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