Inviting Agility – High Performance in Permanent Whitewater_Sports

Skip to contentInviting AgilityHigh Performance in Permanent Whitewater MenuHomeInviting AgilityFrameworkSupportExperienceResourcesContactInviting AgilityInviting Agility helps any kind of enterprise – corporate or community, startup or silo’d, from team room to C-suite – grow more, better and easier results: create more satisfied customers and engaged employees, invite faster and smarter innovation and adaptation, produce more value for owners and stakeholders, and make a bigger social and environmental impact. There is more in you – your team, organization and community – than you think. Inviting Agility calls it out, makes it visible, and aligns everyone around accomplishing the things that matter most. Notice what’s working. Let’s make more of that. Start with the people and resources you already have, and these two lists: All the outcomes you need to achieve (i.e. what’s your high performance?) AND… All the reasons you can’t (i.e. what’s your permanent whitewater?). Together, we can create fully-engaged all hands meetings, translate the results into roadmaps your teams can rally around, and cultivate the enterprise-wide cadences and practices you need to hit your marks – faster and easier than you’d expect.A Framework for ResilienceInviting Agility can help you respond quickly and effectively to any kind of change or disruption – in spite of everything. It’s a framework for resilience: engagement, learning, transformation, adaptation, scaling and growth.Mobilize Everyone to Respond Together (open some space)Visualize Everything to Plan and Manage Effectively (create a canvas or marketplace)Work Incrementally to Deliver Dependably (synchronize cadences)Learn Together to Improve, Replicate, Scale and Evolve (review, refine, repeat)This simple, powerful framework is immediately practical. Start with one or a few teams. Link product and marketing, sales and finance, in reinforcing cycles. Connect supporting functions. For best results, leaders go first. Support for High PerformanceWhat impossible things are you working on?I help leaders, teams and whole organizations increase engagement and learning, manage change and growth, and accelerate transformation and scaling by: Gaining Perspective – Contact me to request a 30-, 60- or 90-minute conversation about your work, goals and challenges. Let’s talk about priorities and options.Mobilizing People – Invite and engage any size group (from 5-500+ people) in a wildly productive conference, summit, retreat or other strategic or tactical meeting. The more complexity, diversity and urgency, the better. We pioneered large online meetings in 2015, by the way!Managing Growth – Surf the chaos of scaling and other sorts of rapid change. Adapt and align around simple, powerful systems that support best work across the enterprise. Increasing Agility – Accelerate learning, adaptation, transformation and growth, from the C-suite to the team rooms, to improve customer experience, employee morale, business value and social impact.Leveraging Resources – Learn more and faster as you do your real work. Catalyze champions and connect innovators throughout the enterprise. Learn to make the tools you already have serve you better.Anything is possible.Thoughts on Pricing | Why Invite Agility?Experience for Developing OrganizationFinally, we meet. I’m Michael Herman. Thank you for visiting and scrolling this far. I hope you’re finding something useful here.I’ve been inviting agility and high performance, with clients and colleagues on six continents, for more than 30 years. In 1990, I was the rare Outward Bound instructor with an MBA in Finance from a big name b-school. Since then, I’ve become a recognized teacher and facilitator of emergent self-organization, team learning, and enterprise agility.My passion has always been discovering, understanding, and sharing better ways of organizing ourselves for work. The “Inviting Organization” I described in this website, in 1998, is still a useful guide to what is emerging today as “business agility.” What I now call Inviting Agility weaves together the important principles and powerful practices that are transforming organizations and informing startups everywhere. Why Invite Agility?I support fellow leaders and champions, innovators and learners, disrupters and transformers. Please have a look around – and contact me if I can help with whatever you’re working on. More Biography | Publications | What People SayResources for Working TogetherThe Resources Library offers original guides, papers, checklists and practice tools. There’s a small heap of other important foundational materials for those who want to go deeper. Let’s TalkWhat are you working on? I work as process designer, facilitator, teacher, consultant and coach. My work brings people together, gets things done, and grows more of what works at work. How can I be of service to you and your organization?Send me an emailLoading Quotes...unsolicited comments, see allQuick LinksHomeInviting AgilityFrameworkSupportExperienceResourcesContact© 1998-2021 Michael Herman. All Rights Reserved… until you ask. Thanks!Recent Blog PostsDare Real Agile Podcast: Connecting Open Space and Enterprise ScrumInvitation = Purpose + ChoiceSeven Momentums for Team and Enterprise DevelopmentWhat To Do After Open SpaceRules for Ongoing Open SpaceSome Open Space StoriesInviting Agility at Walmart