Storydevelopment in an Agile Leadership Journey

Agility is not only about tools and skills, but more importantly about an agile mindset leaders need to develop. To be able to create a compelling Story of Change is key to transformation.  Ellen Herb developed with Jaana Rasmussen and other experts a Leadership Training programme that has been running successfully in a German Company for 3 years. In their workshop, Ellen and Jaana will first talk about the programme as a case for enabling leaders to change mindset and truly develop agile thinking. In the practical part, participants will develop their own story of development and/or transformation with guidance of Ellen and Jaana in a playful, agile way.

Re-authoring your story with the Story-Canvas

At certain points in life we ask ourselves: Why am I here? Why do I have to face this challenge? Am I the right person for this job, to lead the team, to change things? Which way to go?

Story-Telling and Story-Listening can provide a meaningful conversation and reflection on our values and choices in life.Re-authoring our own story enables us to see things differenty, to change our behaviour and become better leaders.

The workshop introduces the Story-Canvas; a framework to work on your own story (or the one of a client) which is easy to learn and provides access to deeper questions and meaningful conversations about biographies and career-paths. The Story-Canvas can easily be applied to agile methods and New Work culture. The Canvas also works as part of a leadership-training.

After a quick introduction on the basics of Story-Telling and Story-Listening, participants will work in pairs of two with the Story-Canvas. Stories are shared with the group at the end of the workshop.