What is the Enterprise Change Bootcamp?

Also known as the Enterprise Agile Coach Bootcamp, it surprisingly contains very little coaching and no Agile. Hence, I call it the Enterprise Change Bootcamp.

The week-long in-person, in-the-classroom experiential learning course gives participants a clear set of tools to enable large-scale change programs inside formal organisations.

It also has two ICAgile certifications: the ICP-ENT and the ICP-CAT. You receive both certifications for attending the course and demonstrating that you can apply the knowledge in a classroom setting.

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Outcomes

After the course, participants will be much better equipped to run change programs that are inclusive, people-first, and structured in an easy-to-follow and understandable way. The participants will be able to speak equally to leaders and not feel they have to ‘sell, convince, get buy-in’ for the change they wish to see.?

In short, participants will feel much more confident in bringing about the transformation ideas they hope to see in the workplace.

As per the latest articles in this substack, participants will also be able to clearly identify when they are wasting their time with organisations that cannot change and leaders who are not ready to progress. This in itself is worth the price of the course in not losing any more time pushing.

Content

The five-day course has clear themes for each day, that build upon themselves as the week progresses.

Day 1 – Safe Space

The first day explores safety ideas, starting with a clear problem/outcome pair. It is a clear definition of the outcome that provides the anchor by which safety begins.

The first day not only creates safety for the course but also gives the participants tools that they can use to create safety in their teams and whole work systems.

Day 1 also gives us a good baseline for agility, complexity, and the vocabulary we need in this expanding and advancing field.

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Day 2 – Coaching Range

Starting with some basic coaching practice, we explore how the energy behind coaching sets us up for inclusion, innovation, and collective sense-making.

Using patterns from over 500 years of change, participants identify trends of societal transformation that give a clear indication of what is coming next for us, and how we can navigate this time of extreme change.

The day is completed using various techniques for total ownership, including Lego, Causal Loops, Emotional intelligence and constructivism as a factor in large-scale narrative change.

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Day 3 – Structure, Process, Culture

Day 3 examines the current organizational structure in depth, and participants can spot (and laugh and groan) at the terrible choices most organizations have made.

Using the experiment canvas, participants are able to plot a course from today's dysfunctional structures to a single-piece structure that is customer-centric and product-focused.

If the interest is in productivity, ownership, rapid delivery, and better quality, the course content provides a clear step-by-step approach to achieving these goals.

Metrics, measuring, and gaming the systems are covered in a way that makes business sense and cuts out the damaging agile wheel maturity metrics so often used by beginners of agile transformations.

Day 4 – Leadership

Day 4 answers why leaders are not receptive to change or new ways of working. Looking at how each participant operates and then reviewing how most leaders operate, it is clear why there is a disconnect.

Throughout the day, participants examine their own communication, agenda, and how they can improve their relationships with leaders who make decisions so that participants have more power and influence.

The end of the day is spent in the rare luxury of being able to examine our own ethics through a series of testing real-life stories and how we would handle them.

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Day 5 – Strategy

Using open-space facilitation, all remaining topics and areas of interest are covered. Participants choose their own areas of focus, and everyone gets to share their expertise and learn from each other.

Most of the day is spent putting together everything that has been learned throughout the week through a presentation on strategic implementation. It is a fun way to end the week by exploring different people’s choices and strategies.

Finally, it is time to say goodbye and plan how to stay in touch and support each other on this incredible journey of making organisations better workplaces.

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History and content

This course has been constantly updated as organisations have evolved over the last ten years. AWA was the first to offer both qualifications in one course and is currently the only member organisation to provide them in person.

The content has evolved through real transformation, including what works and what doesn’t. Countless people and organisations have taken content from this course and made it work. This has resulted in meetups, presentations, book references, and articles on the methods, and it has become the cornerstone of real organizational change.

Attending this course has been a rite of passage for many change agents and we often hear comments about seeing an organisation and hearing that people recognise it as an ‘AWA changed’ org.

Last year, many of the ICE-EC cohort participants organised a fantastic trip to Ibiza to reconnect and have fun. There is a real sense of making a difference together.

If you want to be part of a movement for people-led change, this is the course to attend.

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How to attend

Currently, you can attend in either London (UK), Copenhagen (Denmark), or Oslo (Norway). You can purchase tickets on the AWA website.

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Further learning after the boot camp

The two ICAgile certifications are prerequisites for the ICAgile-certified 6-month cohort program for Advanced Enterprise Change. This program builds upon concepts given in the boot camp and goes deeper, adding many new ideas, skills, and tools.?

Unlike the boot camp, accreditation is given by demonstrating knowledge at a real workplace. The assessment is based on your choices and approaches in real-world change situations. It is the most advanced Enterprise Change cohort that ICAgile offers and has been offered in the Agile space.

Substack - Deeper Change

You can also learn more about Change and join a new movement DEEPER CHANGE from my Substack https://deeperchange.substack.com/

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