Agile-Lean International 2020 conference

Chances are your mom never told you that leaders and consultants need tools to increase
agility—not just in the IT department but across the entire company.

She probably never informed you that grown-ups have to deal with people who hold different values
and mind-sets, all of whom need to feel comfortable in the face of accelerated change.

And she definitely didn’t mention that human beings are not physiologically prepared for constant
alterations in processes, roles, and ways of working.

Unfortunately, if members of a company cannot accept new situations and realities (mental agility),
along with acceptable levels of personal stress, they will struggle to adapt to new situations
(outcomes agility).

How do you help people from all areas of the company to be flexible enough to feel comfortable
with constant change? How do you lower their resistance to new situations and enable them to be
open to new ideas, with positive and proactive attitudes toward learning?

In the first part of this groundbreaking session, acclaimed Leading Exponential Change author Erich
R. Bühler helps you experience what employees feel when exposed to situations that challenge their
values. This exercise will open you to new possibilities and rewire your brain to understand why
certain widely used Agile practices don’t get the expected results.

In the second part of the session, Bühler explores neuroscience and organizational psychology to
help you understand resistance to change and teach you how to make people comfortable when
dealing with constant change.

As Bühler shares his hard-earned experience in the realm of enterprise change, you will increase
your understanding of enterprise agility, recognize its relationship to mental agility, learn about
change plans, and discover models that will help you accelerate the adoption of new ideas in your
company.