Mindful Agile

Mindful Agile – The Agile Mindset and Training

Our training will teach you mindfulness and how to implement agile practices more effectively. Mindfulness is the key ingredient of the collaborative mindset. It is the quality of being fully conscious or aware. Starting with the traits we need at an individual level, mindfulness leads to more productive interactions at the team level. It enables you to communicate efficiently, work more cooperatively, and most importantly, creates happier teams and work environments.

The training we offer includes:

Mindful Agile
Mindful Agile Leadership
Mindful Product Ownership
The Agile Mindset
Mindfulness for Teams
On-going Mindfulness Program
Tailored Training

See below for detailed information about our courses. Contact us to discuss how Mind at Work Consulting can help you and your teams.

Is this your agile team?

Attempting to build an awesome agile culture but struggling to collaborate effectively with your teams and stakeholders?
Striving to deliver innovative products and services that not only meet your customers’ expectations, but exceed them, while their demands constantly change?
Unsure whether the decisions you make are the best to thrive in today’s competitive market where disruption and volatility are the norm?

This workshop will help you deeply understand the agile mindset that is the true intention of the agile manifesto. Through mindfulness, you will think more clearly resulting in increased creativity and better decision making that drive innovation. Read more...

Mindful Agile Leadership

Is this you?

Striving to build an awesome agile culture and positive team environment?
Juggling countless tasks and multiple stakeholders’ expectations in a volatile environment with little or no time?
Unsure whether the decisions you make are the best to deliver true business value and successful outcomes?

This workshop will help you deeply understand the agile mindset and how mindfulness enables you to manage everyday leadership challenges more effectively. You will understand how to influence work culture and be a more inspirational leader. Read More…

Mindful Product Ownership

Is this you?

Striving to create innovative products in a competitive market where disruption and volatility are the norm?
Unsure whether the decisions you make are the best to deliver real customer value, while their demands constantly change?
Attempting to collaborate effectively with your customers, stakeholders and delivery team with little or no time?

This workshop will help you deeply understand your customers and enable you to deliver products and services that they love. Through mindfulness, you will think more clearly resulting in better decisions, which drive innovative solutions. You will gain practical experience and understanding of why mindfulness is the essential skill for effective product ownership. Read More…

The Agile Mindset

Are you agile?

You say you’re agile and doing the ceremonies, but do not achieve the expected benefits?
Trying to deliver innovative solutions that not only meet your customers’ expectations but exceed them, while their demands constantly change?
Struggling to collaborate effectively as a team but find you’re still working independently in silos?

We hear so much these days about the difference between being agile, and doing agile. It’s the agile mindset that enables teams, and organisations, to truly adopt the agile values and principles to reap real benefits, not simply do particular activities and practices.

This course will enable you to understand the original meaning of the agile manifesto and the underlying agile mindset. Using mindfulness as a tool, you will learn how to implement the collaborative mindset needed to make agile work. The whole team will learn how to better understand customers’ requirements, collaborate more effectively at all levels, and think more clearly resulting in more innovative and valuable solutions that your customers love. You will gain practical experience and understanding of why mindfulness is the essential skill for agile team collaboration.

This workshop is for:

Agile team members / Product Owners / Scrum Masters
Business Analysts / Project Managers
Development, test, support, operational and other technical team members
Anyone working with or in an agile team

Workshop outline:

The common issues faced by agile teams.
The agile mindset and the true intention of the agile manifesto.
Introduction to mindfulness and the scientific research on the benefits of mindfulness.
Applying mindfulness to implement the agile mindset.
Using the agile mindset to better understand our stakeholders’ needs.
How mindfulness helps us increase creativity and produce more innovative solutions.
Practical exercises to learn mindfulness techniques and develop a mindfulness practice.

Learning Outcomes:

Understand the agile mindset and the difference between doing agile and being agile.
Identify why mindfulness is so important in agile teams.
Recognise how mindfulness results in enhanced team collaboration, cooperation and communication.
Identify how we can apply mindfulness to our agile framework.
Understand the benefits of mindfulness.

Mindfulness for Teams

Is this your team?

Juggling multiple initiatives, operational or business as usual (BAU) work, as well as day to day tasks, while attempting to be more productive?
Unsure whether the decisions the team make are the best to deliver the customer and business outcomes required?
Attempting to collaborate as a team, as well as working closely with your customers and stakeholders, but struggling to work together effectively?

This course will help you focus on real needs, to truly empathise with your customers and stakeholders, and be more productive as a team. Through mindfulness, you will learn how to collaborate more effectively at all levels, as well as how to become a more effective and harmonious team. You will gain practical experience and understanding of how mindfulness can improve your teams’ communications, increase cooperation, and be a happy, high-performing, well-gelled team.

This workshop is for:

Agile team members / Product Owners / Scrum Masters
Business Analysts / Project Managers
Development, test, support, operational and other I.T. team members
Marketing, Sales, Finance staff
Anyone working with or in any team

Workshop outline:

The common issues faced by teams.
Introduction to mindfulness and the scientific research on the benefits of mindfulness.
Applying mindfulness to communicate more effectively.
Using mindfulness to develop better ways of thinking and improved problem solving that enables improved creativity and innovation.
Practical exercises to learn mindfulness techniques and develop a mindfulness practice.

Learning Outcomes:

Understand mindfulness and why it is so important in teams.
Recognise how mindfulness enhances collaboration with our customers, our teams and our stakeholders.
Implement techniques to better empathise with our customers and stakeholders.
Identify how to apply mindfulness in our daily work.
Understand the benefits of mindfulness.

On-going Mindfulness Program

Just like a muscle in your body, if you want your mindfulness practice to develop and grow stronger, you need to train it regularly. Ongoing training is essential to nurture your mindfulness practice. Usually, a one day course isn’t enough to be proficient at mindfulness. Mindfulness is so simple in its essence, but so complex to implement meaningfully.

Our on-going program gives you and your teams the opportunity to formally practice mindfulness together. Just an hour per week or fortnight can make a world of difference. We support you through workshops, discussions and feedback to help you improve your skills and application of mindfulness techniques. Your teams are encouraged to share their experiences to help you understand how best to overcome any challenges and build on your successes.

Tailored Training

We offer tailored programs that cover your specific needs. Maybe you want a deep understanding of the agile mindset. Perhaps your team wants to advance their mindfulness practices, or hone their skill on a particular agile process. Alternatively we can customise our workshops as a speaking engagement that delivers the key information and guidance you need.

Contact us to discuss your needs to let us put together a bespoke offering tailored specifically to you and your teams’ needs.