Part 1 : Introductive talk
Duration: 15 min max
Bees and ants gather millions of individuals around highly optimised organisations, by nature.
No consulting company ever advised a queen ant on how to organise its tribe. It just happens, by design.
Nature is a great source of inspiration concerning self-organisation and cross-species cooperation.

This talk will describe key mechanisms that rule bee and ant colonies, at both individual and collective scales. How do these communities live and grow in their competitive and randomly-changing environment? What are the differences between those two species? This talk concludes by drawing some analogies linking the wild world with corporate organisations.


Part 2 : Extend the metaphor and find some answers (workshop)
Duration: 30 min
Shaped like a “world café” workshop, the second part of this session invites the participants to elaborate on some of the main obstacles faced when deploying agility across the organisation. This workshop will allow participants to comprehend the key learnings inspired from the hive and the anthill models, and to figure out how to mimic them in order to tackle the limitations to growth of an agilish corporation.

As soon as...
You define what 'Agile' is,
You show people what 'Agile' is in your company,
You list what you do to implement 'Agile'...
Everyone has an opinion

And most of the time, that opinion would be... "that's not real 'Agile'''.

Every time you try to go specific with Agile, you lose some of the options available, based on the Values of the Agile Manifesto.
So, what's best?
Stay in an undecided state of 'Agile' and keep a whole and rich 'Agile' concept, or make 'Agile' specific to your context and lose some of the flawlessness of the 'Agile' concept?

Less time waste, more USEFUL meetings!

The Liberating microstructures (K. McCandless & H. Lipmanowicz) are a repertory of workshop formats that enable collective intelligence and enhance trust among the participants.

Inclusivity, collective intelligence, collaboration, innovation; these words resonate a lot in today's business world where companies struggle to keep up with growing complexity.
And that's why every change agent, leader or facilitator needs to know about Liberating structures.

This 90-minute workshop will be an interactive overview of the liberating microstructures, making every participant aware of the diversity of Liberating formats available.
After a quick introduction to the subject, the participants will investigate the framework to finish with the key principles behind the liberating structures.

Successfully tested in the past (ROTI of 4)

As soon as...
You define what 'Agile' is,
You show people what 'Agile' is in your company,
You list what you do to implement 'Agile'...
Everyone has an opinion

And most of the time, that opinion would be... "that's not real 'Agile'''.

Every time you try to go specific with Agile, you lose some of the options available, based on the Values of the Agile Manifesto.
So, what's best?
Stay in an undecided state of 'Agile' and keep a whole and rich 'Agile' concept, or make 'Agile' specific to your context and lose some of the flawlessness of the 'Agile' concept?

Less time waste, more USEFUL meetings!

The Liberating microstructures (K. McCandless & H. Lipmanowicz) are a repertory of workshop formats that enable collective intelligence and enhance trust among the participants.

Inclusivity, collective intelligence, collaboration, innovation; these words resonate a lot in today's business world where companies struggle to keep up with growing complexity.
And that's why every change agent, leader or facilitator needs to know about Liberating structures.

This 90-minute workshop will be an interactive overview of the liberating microstructures, making every participant aware of the diversity of Liberating formats available.
After a quick introduction to the subject, the participants will investigate the framework to finish with the key principles behind the liberating structures.

The Derdians are a rural and peaceful people living in small huts nestled in lush green valleys. Previously renouncing any form of modernity, the Derdians decided this year to open up to the world and welcome new products from around the globe.

Get ready for a clash of cultures!

"The Derdians" is a well-knowed workshop used by cultural hackers to make teams (or people) acknowledge their cultural differences, and find their way to a better communication/collaboration.

The participants of this workshop experiment (and therefore, discover) the gregarious reflexes that human groups have when they are in contact with a different culture. The participants leave the session with key levers to reduce the clash of cultures and to encourage collaboration of culturally-distant teams.

Facilitated by Romain Vailleux, this workshop begins with a role-playing game (hilarious and dynamic!), and ends with a debrief phase to compile the learning of the workshop as a take away.