Why are organizations challenged by agile transitions? How can you get better at doing what matters, both for your own benefit and for more success at work? Peter Stevens explains the simple tools of personal agility and closes the loop between personal and organizational agility.

1. How to do more of what matters
From personal satisfaction to professional success
Peter Stevens
www.MyPersonalAgility.org
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2. Five reasons Agile transitions fail to meet expectations
• Missing shared goal or purpose
• Missing mindset
• Inability to create alignment
• Inability to get things done
• Inability to hold the new mindset

3. Scrum Team
GetStuff
Done
Team Coach
Get
RightStuff
Done
Product Ownership
Create
Alignment
Leadership
Cultivatethe
Mindset
DoCapability Prioritize Listen Mindset/Roadmap
Things that matter
Performing
Teams
Trust
Companies:

4. GetStuff
Done
Get
RightStuff
Done
Create
Alignment
DoCapability Prioritize Listen
Things that matter
Impact
Trust
Individuals:

5. Would you like to do things that matter?
Share the story
of
Personal Agility
Three easy tools
for
doing what matters
From
Personal Agility
to
Leadership Agility

6. Introducing… Me, Myself and I!

7. What really matters?

8. My goal is to inspire you to transform your world
peter@saat-network.net
@peterstev
“Mr. What Really Matters”
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9. Source: © fotolia.com
I
have
three
bosses
None
can tell
me
what to
do next!

10. I
have so
much
to do
I
don’t
know
where
to start
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11. Source: https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/57445655/Juggling-Meme

12. The question is not if you will
say “No”…
Demand
“to do’s”
Capacity
Capacity

13. Demand
“to do’s”
Capacity
The question is
How will you invest your capacity?
Waste
Stuff That
Matters!

14. Impact means doing what matters
Demand
“to do’s”
Stuff That
Matters!
Waste
Capacity

15. What happens if…
what you do doesn’t matter?
Demand
“to do’s”
Waste
Capacity
Stuff That
Matters!

16. Three easy tools for doing what matters
• Understanding the challenge
• A simple framework for asking
the right questions
• An information radiator to
understand the answers
Stuff
Done
Right
Stuff
Done
Do

17. To get the right things done,
master three aspects
Doing Work
QuestioningSetting Priorities

18. Me, Myself and I
must cover all three Doing Work
Myself
Questioning
Celebration Coach
Setting Priorities
Me

19. Personal Agility is a simple framework for
doing what matters
Stuff done,
Closer to who
you want to be
Celebrate & Choose
Who you are,
What you did
What could
I do this
week?
What can I
expect to
get done?
What really
matters?
Do
What is
important
or urgent?
Who can
help?
6 Questions
1 Recurring Event
What did I
do last
week?
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20. The Priorities Map makes it easy to decide what’s next.

21. “This really works”
Hartmuth Gieldanowski

22. From Personal Agility To Leadership Agility
Descaling
Alignment Do
Create
Alignment

23. It’s all about alignment!

24. If two people agree on what really matters,
they are aligned
Why
How
What
Simon Sinek, Start with Why, “the golden circle”

25. Remember the key tasks of getting the right things done?
Doing Work
QuestioningSetting Priorities

26. Pretend for a moment that you are three people
Me, Myself and I
Doing Work - Myself
Questioning
Celebration Coach
Setting Priorities
Me

27. Ask or offer to a colleague to be your Celebration Coach
to maintain alignment with that person
Doing Work - Myself
Questioning
Celebration Coach
colleague, coach, spouse
Setting Priorities
Me

28. Take responsibility for understanding what really matters
Doing Work - Myself
Questioning
Celebration Coach
Setting Priorities
Your Manager

29. Personal Agility does not change the reporting structure!

30. Leadership Agility employs Personal Agility to create
alignment throughout the organization
Stuff
Done
Right
Stuff
Done
Do
Create
Alignment

31. Summary: How to do more that matters
• Every week:
• Ask yourself the 6 questions of Personal Agility
• Visualize the answers on your Priorities Map
• To have more impact at work
• Ask your stakeholders – what really matters?
• Share Personal Agility and support the people around you

32. • Contact me:
• linkedIn
• twitter @peterstev
• peter@saat-network.ch
• Join the early readers club at
www.MyPersonalAgility.com
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