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09/24/2014 MEETING OF AGILE BOSTON: DABNEY HAILEY on VISUAL THINKING STRATEGIES and AGILE TEAM PRINCIPLES
WEDNESDAY SEPT 24 in BURLINGTON MA:
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DABNEY HAILEY on: VISUAL THINKING STRATEGIES and AGILE TEAM PRINCIPLES
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ABOUT DABNEY HAILEY:
Dabney Hailey is a management consultant, curator, and educator. She is a pioneer in the innovative use of the art-based facilitation method, Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), as managerial and team-building tool within commercial enterprises and nonprofit organizations.She leads VTS discussions and trained facilitators in a range of contexts (businesses, museums, universities, and the medical world) , doing so since 2001. The founder and principal of Hailey Consulting Group, her client list includes well-known organizations actively pursuing higher levels of agility : Harvard Business School, Fidelity Investments, Omgeo, and many smaller businesses and nonprofits.Hailey is also an established curator, writer, and educator specializing in modern and contemporary art with over 15 years' experience in museums and education. Learn more and contact Dabney at www.haileygroup.com.
DABNEY HAILEY on: VISUAL THINKING STRATEGIES and AGILE TEAM PRINCIPLES
Successful agile environments must foster innovative mindsets, open communication and emergent leadership skills across team members. In other words, a healthy, productive agile workplace is one in which people are organized to learn and grow, not merely to execute.
How, specifically, can such an environment be cultivated? In this session, you'll experience being part of an authentic learning culture as we look together at a work of art, then reflect on the methodology structuring our dialogue.
We will experience Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), a discussion technique that models and teaches key features of teams that are organized to learn. Rooted in research from cognitive psychology and art education, VTS was originally developed to empower viewers of art through open-ended, evidence-based discussion, yet its impact has been far broader.
Studies on VTS show that it:
Enhances skills in observation, critical thinking, and collaboration,
Increases the value team members place on communication, and
Increases comfort with ambiguity, which is key to preventing premature decisions in the face of complex problems.
VTS cultivates capacities vital to successful agile environments, within which everyone is accountable and focused, adaptable and creative, secure and open.
VTS is a dynamic, stimulating process. During this introduction, you will experience specific techniques that
** Create a psychologically safe yet rigorous discussion environment;
** Use carefully phrased, open-ended questions to steward conversation;
** Enable everyone to speak and listen, to hear and feel heard;
** Test ideas through evidence-based reasoning and respectful disagreement;
** Encourage participants to hold multiple perspectives and recognize biases; and
Foster experimentation and the integration of failure into working processes.
We will connect these actions and the learning mindset they embody to core agile principles and your own, ongoing work. We'll also consider applications of the VTS method and core techniques within agile software development and team organization. And we'll do all this while analyzing powerful, beautiful works of art!
To learn more about Visual Thinking Strategies workshops in the business world, see www.haileygroup.com
To learn more about the origins and practice of Visual Thinking Strategies within education and museums, see the book, Philip Yenawine, Visual Thinking Strategies: Using Art to Deepen Learning Across School Disciplines (Harvard, 2013).
REGISTER HERE for Dabney Hailey on Sept 24 in BURLINGTON
SCHEDULE:
6:30PM Agile Intro & QA
7:00PM Food and socializing
7:20PM MAIN EVENT
8:40PM DONE
8:45PM DONE-DONE
VENUE:
NUANCE CORPORATION, 1 Wayside Road Burlington, MA 01803
PLEASE REGISTER WITH INTENT TO ATTEND
Tickets (for all events, regardless of ticket price) are transferable; if you cannot make it to the event you can send a friend in your place. NOTE: Registering is an explicit commitment to attend. PLEASE do not register casually. Doing so prevents others who sincerely want to attend from doing so, and also overstates food & beverage counts. Registering casually does everyone a serious disservice. Your registration is an explicit commitment to attend.
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General Ground Rules and Conditions for Registration and Attendance:
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Tickets (for all events, regardless of ticket price) are transferable; if you cannot make it to the event you can send a friend in your place. NOTE: Registering is an explicit commitment to attend. PLEASE do not register casually. Doing so prevents others who sincerely want to attend from doing so, and also overstates food & beverage counts. Registering casually does everyone a serious disservice. Your registration is an explicit commitment to attend. Anyone authorized by the event promoter to attend this event is subject to the following Ground Rules as a condition of attendance: There are no refunds for paid events. No audio or video recording permitted. Recording of video and/or audio is grounds for revoking your authorization to attend. You may take pictures. You are required to show up ready to have loads of FUN and engage in lots of LEARNING with lots of other very curious, fun-loving people. By purchasing a ticket and/or attending this meeting (hereafter the Event), you are explicitly authorizing us to capture pictures, video, and audio recordings of your image and voice and to use these recordings in promotion of our events. By purchasing a ticket and/or attending the Event, you are agreeing explicitly to indemnify and hold harmless the following parties from any and all claims, including but not limited to any loss, damage, or legal liability related to attendance: a) the venue provider, b) the event promoters, c) anyone and everyone else even remotely associated with the execution of the Event event in any way, whatsoever. The Event promoter reserves the right to refuse and/or revoke admittance to anyone at any time, subject only to refunding within 30 days any dollar price paid for said admittance.
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LocationNuance Corp (Office Bulding) (View)
1 WAYSIDE ROAD
Burlington, MA 01803
United States
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