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Change: A practitioner's guide to Enterprise Agile Coaching
Change is everywhere. It is inevitable. Change can be slow and incremental or sudden and unexpected. It can happen at any time. Sometimes change is welcomed and sometimes it is feared.
Organisations across the globe are experiencing unprecedented levels of change both in frequency and severity. Like any organism, an organisation will either adapt or it will die.
In this book, Simon Powers shares over 25 years of experience helping large organisations adapt to rising complexity and pace of change, from charities to banking, from local councils to central government, and from retail and automotive to big pharma.
Over the last 10 years, Simon has taught thousands of Coaches, Leaders, and Managers how to make meaningful change. He has helped set the bar for an entire industry of Enterprise Coaches and change agents and won awards including the person who has done the most globally to promote agility.
In this book, Simon shares his pioneering and original approach to people-led organisational change with innovative new models and tools. By combining Systems Thinking, Systems Coaching, and a deep experience of how people face change, Simon offers a way to move forwards with less or no resistance and none of the usual arguments over frameworks and approaches.
Simon takes us through 600 years of history and puts into context the current challenges faced today, providing relevant and actionable steps to emergent solutions that empower and include everyone in creating fantastic work cultures that everyone would be proud to work in.
This book is for people who want their organisation to thrive in the face of change but don’t yet know how to do it. It is for enterprise and agile coaches, scrum masters, leaders and their coaches, department heads, HR staff, and any change agents who are fed up with battling for change and instead want to find a collaborative and meaningful approach to create better organisations. This book tells you how to do that.
Organisations across the globe are experiencing unprecedented levels of change both in frequency and severity. Like any organism, an organisation will either adapt or it will die.
In this book, Simon Powers shares over 25 years of experience helping large organisations adapt to rising complexity and pace of change, from charities to banking, from local councils to central government, and from retail and automotive to big pharma.
Over the last 10 years, Simon has taught thousands of Coaches, Leaders, and Managers how to make meaningful change. He has helped set the bar for an entire industry of Enterprise Coaches and change agents and won awards including the person who has done the most globally to promote agility.
In this book, Simon shares his pioneering and original approach to people-led organisational change with innovative new models and tools. By combining Systems Thinking, Systems Coaching, and a deep experience of how people face change, Simon offers a way to move forwards with less or no resistance and none of the usual arguments over frameworks and approaches.
Simon takes us through 600 years of history and puts into context the current challenges faced today, providing relevant and actionable steps to emergent solutions that empower and include everyone in creating fantastic work cultures that everyone would be proud to work in.
This book is for people who want their organisation to thrive in the face of change but don’t yet know how to do it. It is for enterprise and agile coaches, scrum masters, leaders and their coaches, department heads, HR staff, and any change agents who are fed up with battling for change and instead want to find a collaborative and meaningful approach to create better organisations. This book tells you how to do that.
226 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 31, 2022
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About the author
Simon Powers
1 book3 followersSimon Powers is the CEO and founder of Adventures with Agile, the training and coaching company and global community of practice for agile and organisational change.
Simon is a world class systemic coach, leadership coach and mentor, facilitator and trainer.
He is also a trainer therapy practitioner in Internal Family Systems.
Over the last two decades Simon has worked with leaders to improve their organisations, meet their objectives, and create a productive and happy work environment. He has worked in many industries including banking, financial services, retail, manufacturing, charity, oil and gas, and public sector.
Based on his extensive experience, Simon has created a program of certified training classes that have been extremely effective in up-skilling leaders, managers, staff, and contractors in organisational change skills. He has contributed in setting the industry standards through ICAgile competency creation, creation of models and ways of working, building the wider agile and change community, and is seen as a thought-leader and entrepreneur for organisational change and agility.
Simon has won awards for the person who has done the most to promote agile globally in 2016, the most popular agile conference speaker in 2016, and was part of the program that won the best implementation of agile in the UK public sector in 2015.
Simon now runs the AWA coaching and training faculty and continues to coach and mentor leaders in organisational agility and meeting their key objectives. He occasionally runs training classes and facilitates large scale events.
Simon is a world class systemic coach, leadership coach and mentor, facilitator and trainer.
He is also a trainer therapy practitioner in Internal Family Systems.
Over the last two decades Simon has worked with leaders to improve their organisations, meet their objectives, and create a productive and happy work environment. He has worked in many industries including banking, financial services, retail, manufacturing, charity, oil and gas, and public sector.
Based on his extensive experience, Simon has created a program of certified training classes that have been extremely effective in up-skilling leaders, managers, staff, and contractors in organisational change skills. He has contributed in setting the industry standards through ICAgile competency creation, creation of models and ways of working, building the wider agile and change community, and is seen as a thought-leader and entrepreneur for organisational change and agility.
Simon has won awards for the person who has done the most to promote agile globally in 2016, the most popular agile conference speaker in 2016, and was part of the program that won the best implementation of agile in the UK public sector in 2015.
Simon now runs the AWA coaching and training faculty and continues to coach and mentor leaders in organisational agility and meeting their key objectives. He occasionally runs training classes and facilitates large scale events.
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September 4, 2022
Are you facing challenges with changing the way things work within your organization and you need to change this? As senior leader and passionate student of lean and agile I found lots of valuable insights in Simon Power's new book 'Change'. Simon's guidance is specific and directly applicable to my work as leader inspiring and enabling change of the way the people work within our organization. This helps our leaders and teams to evolve their consciousness about themselves, their work and how to deliver better customer value in a sustainable manner. The change that Simon talks about is profound and has deep cultural implications - not only for businesses, but for society as a whole. My key take-away of the book is Simon's insistence on the people-first approach to change that he illustrates by relevant personal experiences.
A couple of years ago, I was blessed with the opportunity to learn from and work together with Simon. Reading his book re-connected me with the many great conversations and discoveries we had together.
I highly recommend that any agile leader striving to enable profound and sustainable change within their organization reads this book.
A couple of years ago, I was blessed with the opportunity to learn from and work together with Simon. Reading his book re-connected me with the many great conversations and discoveries we had together.
I highly recommend that any agile leader striving to enable profound and sustainable change within their organization reads this book.
October 27, 2023
Required (and entirely enjoyable) reading for anyone looking to help organisations genuinely succeed
This book is a fine collection of Simon’s ocean of theoretical knowledge, multiplied by his pragmatism and real-work experience - proven in truly complex environments.
It is extended through deep and original thinking and insights, and presented with his usual warmth, compassion and care for humankind.
He provides context (the 3 ages of consciousness), insights (a tremendous definition of the “agile mindset”, leadership archetypes), brings it all together in a coherent, actionable form (the Enterprise Change pattern) with the tools (leadership; systems and professional coaching; real teams; emergent experiments for the complex domain; inner work and learning; collective decision-making, enabling constraints…) that you can take forward to bring real, meaningful, positive change (guided by your day-to-day ethics) within your organisation, for your customers - and for you as a human!
Read it: you’ll enjoy it, and you’ll be better for it!
This book is a fine collection of Simon’s ocean of theoretical knowledge, multiplied by his pragmatism and real-work experience - proven in truly complex environments.
It is extended through deep and original thinking and insights, and presented with his usual warmth, compassion and care for humankind.
He provides context (the 3 ages of consciousness), insights (a tremendous definition of the “agile mindset”, leadership archetypes), brings it all together in a coherent, actionable form (the Enterprise Change pattern) with the tools (leadership; systems and professional coaching; real teams; emergent experiments for the complex domain; inner work and learning; collective decision-making, enabling constraints…) that you can take forward to bring real, meaningful, positive change (guided by your day-to-day ethics) within your organisation, for your customers - and for you as a human!
Read it: you’ll enjoy it, and you’ll be better for it!
December 25, 2022
This is an amazing book on leadership, agility and how to make working lives better.
Reading a lot of literature on related topics (change management, business agility, design thinking, etc), I can only say that this book is excellent in providing a great end to end view of how to enable organizations to transform and set them up for success in the complex and emergent world we live in.
I was particularly inspired by chapters on leadership and ethics that give lots of food for thought as well as practical advice and framework for ethical decision making.
In addition to that, the book is full of great references to other resources I found incredibly helpful.
Highly recommend this book to anyone in leadership, business agility, change management space or simply for those people who want to enable organizations and teams to work better.
Reading a lot of literature on related topics (change management, business agility, design thinking, etc), I can only say that this book is excellent in providing a great end to end view of how to enable organizations to transform and set them up for success in the complex and emergent world we live in.
I was particularly inspired by chapters on leadership and ethics that give lots of food for thought as well as practical advice and framework for ethical decision making.
In addition to that, the book is full of great references to other resources I found incredibly helpful.
Highly recommend this book to anyone in leadership, business agility, change management space or simply for those people who want to enable organizations and teams to work better.
September 17, 2022
Insightful and useful
I really liked this book. It was easy to read and full of useful ideas, approaches and examples. I'd definitely recommend to anyone that is involved in Enterprise Agile coaching or looking to support change.
I really liked this book. It was easy to read and full of useful ideas, approaches and examples. I'd definitely recommend to anyone that is involved in Enterprise Agile coaching or looking to support change.
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