Overview: “The pace of business is accelerating, and the people problems aren’t going away,” says David Siegel. If your top business problem is within those two areas, this workshop is for you. This intensive full-day workshop will help you see your business in a new way. David provides frameworks and exercises on the core concepts of connectedness, complex adaptive systems, volatility, randomness and luck, lean vs agile, and profiting from uncertainty. 

What to expect: You will be actively taking notes, engaging with the content and tools, and reframing your most important business problems. Be sure to bring a notebook and pen. 

Who should come: The workshop is for decision makers, managers, leaders, change agents, and consultants.

This is the full menu of topics covered in the workshops: 

We offer workshops from 3 hours to 3 days ...

Participants get more than their money's worth and leave with a notebook full of new tools and ideas. Contact me for pricing.

Workshop #1: Cognitive reset

This is usually a 2-hour session where I give 2-3 cognitive tests that help all participants see their blind spots. It is eye-opening.

Workshop #2: One-day Business-Agility Worldview

In this workshop, we spend the entire day recalibrating our minds to the realities of business in the 21st century. This is a very challenging workshop that will prompt participants to rethink most of their assumptions about their business, management practices, and people. Serious changes will result. 

"David is one of the most progressive thinkers I have ever met."
     — Julian Teicke, former CEO of WeFox

Workshop #3: People and Organization Design

In this fast-paced day, you'll learn what's wrong with HR today, then we'll talk about how to eliminate that department from your company, and why your company will be better off after you do. The best way to retain employees is to create a GREAT place to work. You'll learn the myths and facts behind employee engagement, compensation, communication, and much more. In the afternoon, we will cover organization design - the transition toward self-management. We'll learn about several companies that have absolutely no managers and how they do it. 

Workshop #4: Make Better Decisions

This is a one-day immersion in the world of decision science. Just learning a few of these techniques will probably save at least ten percent of your budget and make your group or company more effective. 

Workshop #5: Leadership, Experiments, Management, and Lean/Agile

Replace planning with experiments. This workshop is one or two days covering the four topics. We can organize them however we like. You will fill your toolkit with new tools and systems for improving culture. 

“Get ready to rethink everything.” 
— Colin Turner, investor

Workshop #6: Automate everything

Put all your corporate knowledge and processes into systems that run 24/7. Everything from marketing to production/delivery to back-office. Everything should be pulled by customers rather than pushed from the supply side. This workshop shows examples of marketing automation, production, budgeting, finance, decisionmaking, and more.

"An eye-opener that showed once again how many of our decisions are based not on evidence but on fallacies like group-think, reverse causality, and other cognitive biases. If you and your team want to make sound decisions, book the Business Agility workshop."
— Dr. Thomas D. Zweifel, Strategy & Performance Expert

Workshop #7: Portfolio and Beyond Budgeting

In this day, we will discover a simple rule that will help all executives, board members, and managers get rid of their "white elephant" projects and prioritize around business value. This is an extremely valuable day that will probably overhaul the way you do budgeting. 

These topics require skill development and follow-up. See our book list and coaching sections for next steps.

"Fast paced, insightful, lively, and fun. David unapologetically crushes common business myths with hard evidence and introduces agile thinking tools that can make the difference between a business failure and thriving on change."
— Boaz Heller, Singularity University

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