An immersive Learning LABfrom now:land to next:land

NEXT:PEDITION

NEXT:PEDITION Is A LAB ON crEATINg A fuNDAmENTAL shIfT IN ThE wAy wE wOrk, LEAD AND OrgANIzE.

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The program immerses you into A fIrsT-hAND EXPErIENcE of how it is to work and organize under dynamic complexity. It equips you with ThEOrIEs, mEThODOLOgIEs AND TOOLs TO NAVIgATE uNDEr uNcErTAINTy and provides you with practical opportunities to experiment and prototype new approaches as a team in an action-learning LAB. The program is A uNIQuE BLEND Of A POwErfuL sysTEmIc TrANsfOrmATION APPrOAch AND A hANDPIckED VArIETy Of cuTTINg EDgE APPrOAchEs TO DyNAmIc sTEErINg AND sELf-OrgANIzATION.

22-25 days in 6 mODuLEs starting in November 2017 – September 2018 + follow-up in January 2019.

You developed attitude, knowledge, skills, and confidence to guide and design organizations to thrive in a world of dynamic complexity.

Managers, Entrepreneurs, Changemakers, Consultants, Agile Experts that feel the need to crEATE A fuNDAmENTAL shIfT IN ThE wAy wE wOrk, LEAD AND OrgANIzE.

whAT Is IT?

whO Is IT fOr?

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An immersive Learning LABfrom now:land to next:land

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18-24 next:pedition members from different organizations willing to explorethe next:land practices of organizing, leadership and new ways of working.

wE ArE LOOkINg fOr:NEXT:PEDITION

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Think digitalization.Think disruptive innovation.Think globalization and its social challenges. In its pivot toward 21st century organizational design, a global movement – and dwarfs and Giants being a hub in it – had found an emer-ging practice of leading, organizing and working with revolutionary potential.

Organizations as we know them – formed by needs of the industrial revolution, hierarchies of people and power – are the answer to questions of the past. Shaped by a dominant mindset of a bygone century - where leaders and economists believed in equilibrium, unlimited growth and rational behavior of people.

We live now in a world that is defined by ex-ponential change and inescapable uncertainty. Current and future organizations and their leaders need to find answers for a world facing new challenges.

let’s face it:

work doesn’t work.

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LET’s fAcE IT:

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Organizations as we know them – formed by needs of the industrial revolution, hierarchies of people and power – are the answer to questions from the past. Shaped by a dominant mindset of a bygone century – where leaders and economists believed in equilibrium, unlimited growth and rational behavior of people.

We now live in a world that is defined by exponential change and inescapable uncertainty. Current and

future organizations and their leaders need to find answers in a world facing new challenges.

In its pivot toward 21st century organization-al design, a global movement – and dwarfs and Giants being a hub in it – is developing an emerg-ing practice of leading, organizing and working with revolutionary potential.

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The participants and guides will immerse themselves in the unknown world of next:land which allows us to experience and explore new ways of thinking, working and learning. Each LAB has its unique breakthrough questions (based on participants' interests) in two areas: next:projects and next:visits.

NEXT:PrOjEcTs What does next:... really mean for Strategy, HR, Leadership, R&D...?

NEXT:VIsITs How do we set up a learning journey for the whole group that tackles our questions?

Both areas will be explored within 6-8 agile teams throughout the entire journey and within all five stop-overs. We will set up 3-4 Teams of 6 people for each area.

mIrrOrINg ThE cONDITIONs Of VOLATILITy, AmBIguITy AND uNcErTAINTy IN A cO-crEATIVE LAB.

NEXT:PEDITION

wOrkINg wITh AgILE TEAms

LEArNINg By DOINg & ImmErsE yOursELf IN IT

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By being part of one next:project and one next:visit agile team, you will learn different practices of how to collaborate in an agile mindset and align across teams.

By leveraging self-management practices and working in agile team-settings, you will act yourself into new ways of thinking and prototype your way forward.

You will learn different next:practices whilst using them to create innovative answers, like system-ic thinking and systemic practices, scrum-based management tools, Holacracy®, design thinking, lean start-up mindset, minimum viable product ap-proach, teal practices ...

As a group we share the responsibility to make the program a success!

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wE BuILD ONPrINcIPLEs

Leveraging technology

co-creationDefault to open

Acting ourselves intoNew way of Thinking

focusing on Practiceand Practitioner

Acting under Ambiguityand uncertainty

Experiencingself-Organization

system TheoryOngoing Agile Teams to realize the Learning Journey

Systemic loop – observe, reflect, act;

beyond „autopilot“ mode

Experiments,new contexts,

out-of-comfortzone

Action-oriented (immersive) learning

simulations, prototyping

Peer-to-peer learning environment,

we are all in this together

Share and it will grow

Methods, tools, practices as well as personal development and purpose questions

Using and testing digital tools for know-how exchange and collaboration

simply pushing harder within the

old boundaries will not do!

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The TravelrouTeNeXT:PeDITIoN

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next:PrePCaMPS

Fundamentals of Systemic Transformation (2.5d)

agile Work Practices (2d)

Design Thinking (2d)

Groupdynamics (5d)

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next:BaSeCaMPNext:organizingbuilding blocks

4 days 4MoDule

next:vISITSCollectivelearning Journey

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5MoDule

STarT By STarTINGSet up your journey withinyour organization

3.5 days 1.5 days

2MoDule

next:CulTure

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next:PraCTICeSlab on next:practices, tools & attitude

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Holding tHe breaktHrougH question

Co-working

Make Your CHoiCe

Co-working

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next:MeeTuP

exit point

Culturediagnosis

next:Visits

next:proJeCts

break-tHrougH

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giantsnext:guides

Building the ground for our expedition. De-pending on your background and experience you chose your preferred starting point and select one or more modules.

All of them are substantial building blocks for next:land.

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PrEP:cAmPsmodule 0

june - july 2017

whAT DOEs IT NEED TO BEcOmE rEADy fOr ThE NEXT:PEDITION? MAKE A CHOICE. Pick (at least) one.

fuNDAmENTALs Of sysTEmIc TrANsfOrmATION - 2.5 days, 13 - 14 july 2017In cooperation with Prof. Dr. Rupert Hasenzagl Systemic theory, using the systemic loop, asking questions, working with systemic hypothesis

AgILE wOrk PrAcTIcEs - 2 days, Vienna, 3 - 4 October 2017 In cooperation with Gregor Karlinger (TRansfeRIo and dwarfs and Giants aGIle Hub)Principles of Scrum, Kanban ... : Rapid Iteration for build-measure-learn

DEsIgN ThINkINg - 2 days, Berlin, 20 - 21 june 2017In cooperation with DaRK HoRse (www.thedarkhorse.de)Hands on approach for prototyping solutions

grOuPDyNAmIcs - 5 days, graz, 3 - 7 july 2017Experience yourself in social complexity and ambiguity

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We start our expedition to next:land at a base:camp. Rather than a "workshop“ it is an experience of new ways of thinking and work-ing. The LAB is a temporary yet structured set of events to develop a next:land mindset, to prototype and experience next:practices, and a powerful systemic lens on organizations. We will develop cohesion as a group and get the expedition started by forming the 6-8 agile project teams. After Module 1 you will have the choice to go all in or opt out, if it doesn‘t fit your needs.

Do, reflect, learn!

setting up a vivid learning environment and the learning group

Building blocks for next:landnext:map – now:land and next:landSystemic Theory – basic assumptions and practicesNext:navigator – prinicples with agile teams in Hol-acracy that help navigate in next:landOrganization LAB setup with Holacracy and agile teams

starting Agile ProjectsUsing scrum-based methodologies: user-story, backlog, sprint-logic ...Focus on a) next:projects and b) next:visits

co-working-sessionsWork on your Breakthrough Questions by setting up a co-working mode during each moduleFacilitated parallel working sessions for agile project-teams

Point of commitment "Am I in or not?" Your opportunity to challenge your own committment for the whole journey.

Transfer PrototypingSpecifying small experiments to set your organization in motion towards next:...

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BAsE:cAmPmodule 1 - 4 days

Vienna20 - 23 November 2017

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We make a deep dive into guiding principles that help to nurture a cultural DNA that can support organizations navigate the complexity of the 21st century. These cultures do have a burning passion and compelling purpose that fuels inspiration and sparks creativity.

Act purpose-driven; shift cultural patterns, reflect on your attitude.

Evaluate and learn to understand complex sys-tems

Systemic culture analysis

Being purpose driven and your personal next: attitude

Personal purposeReflecting your attitude and belief-systemOur learning-LAB purpose

co-working-sessions: working intensively on your agile projects

Facilitated parallel working sessions for the agile project-teams

working on and with next:culturesSystemic practice: lifepath, patterns, belief-systemsOrganizational purpose: How to organize around purpose?Assumptions and practices of a next:culture – start-up mindset, feedback culture, prototyping

from now:land to ... glimpses of next:leadership, strategizing, next:hr, next:innovation

Transfer-PrototpyingExperiment – leaning into next:practices

Refining experiments to set your organization in motion towards next:...

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NEXT:cuLTurEmodule 2 - 3.5 days

Quiet & calm place - mallorca, spain23 - 26 january 2017

A hands-on learning LAB on how to co-create and apply next:practices and tools. We explore how to weave next:principles into the daily fabric of working life – strategizing, regular operations and daily routines, and deep con-versations.

Prototype, Lean into it, fail fast and Learn fast.

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Next:practice LAB – Deep dive into different practices

Wholeness and Healthy Relations

Strategizing

Leveraging next:tools from Lean Startup-Mindset, AGILE, Design Thinking, Holacracy;

Dialogue in the evening with next:landers from Amsterdam (Berlin)

Experience-sharing

Getting to know different next:land practices from different organizations

co-working-sessions: working intensively on your agile projects

Facilitated parallel working sessions for agile project-teams glimpses of next:leadership, next:HR, next:innovation

Intense peer-to-peer feedback and reflecting individual patterns

Transfer-PrototpyingRefining experiments to set your organization in motion towards next:...

NEXT:PrAcTIcEsmodule 3 - 3.5 days

Amsterdam19 - 22 march 2018

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Immerse ourselves into next:land in different places.

ThE DEsk Is A DANgErOus PLAcE frOm whIch TO VIEw ThE wOrLD.John Lecarre

We meet for deep dialogues with different people from forerunner companies to gener-ate first-hand experience and insights, how next:practices are applied in organizations. 3-4 Agile Teams in up to 3-4 destinations. We meet up for a joint harvesting session to intensively distill insights and learnings and reflect how they can be adapted and applied to our own contexts.

NEXT:VIsITs TO LEArN frOm NEXT:LANDErs ...

Virtual meet-ups as next:pedition LABSetting up the journeys and synchronization in between

Sharpen the breakthrough questions for exploration

Explore next:land within Learning journey Teams - from monday to wednesdayDeep Dive into next:land - in different places

Your choice: Berlin, Amsterdam, Zurich, Vienna, Tel Aviv, New York...

harvesting the Learnings - Thursday and friday at next:pedition LABSharing and analyzing insights of the next:visits

Distilling implications for your organization

EXPErIENcE NEXT:LAND A fruITfuL

LEArNINg jOurNEymodule 4 - 4.5 days

Europe and beyond(tbd)11 - 15 june 2018

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Starting ... into the new. Embracing organi-zational change as our life’s faith rather than framing it as repair-kit for something broken.Create your choreography for the transition-ing into a new paradigm, where the link of individual talent and organizational purpose unleash the full potential of individuals and organizations.

Observe. reflect. Define elegant Action.

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sit back and reflect your next:peditionYour personal learnings and developments

What has changed for you over the course of this journey?

What has manifested? Who are you about to become?

Insights and Learnings from next:projects – next:hr; next:leadership, strategizing, next:innovation

How can next:land be woven into management practices?

What works, what doesn’t?

setting up your next:transformation journeyFor your organization: observe, reflect, action-points

What‘s next in putting your organization in motion?

Agile Choreography – How to set up your journey? Which practices and insights do you want to use?

Next:PartyCelebrate the start and new beginnings

Making use of Barcelona's flair and spirit to close the next:pedition and open a new chapter

sTArT By sTArTINg

yOur jOurNEy TOwArDs

NEXT:TrANsfOrmATION module 5 - 3.5 days

Barcelona10 - 13 september 2018

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There is no way to book a trip to next:land. To become a next:navigator for your company means to step into the unknown. The evolutionary catalysts from dwarfs and Giants guide your steps into the new. To be your guide, we want to know who you are, what drives you and what is your purpose!

1) sEND us yOur hANDs-ON VIDEO WHY do you want to apply?... made e.g. quick and dirty with your mobile

2) PLEAsE sEND us A shOrT cV As wELL

There are two stepsto get on board!

mEmBErsNEXT:PEDITION

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facts about

discounts

admission reQuirements

teaching and working language

tuition

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extra costs€+

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minimum age

You need to be experienced in working in an organization in mini-mum for 3 years. Please send us a written application and a video.

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German and partly English

15.500.- € for the entire program. The fees include tuition, handouts and learning materials, workshop rooms and coffee breaks.

Your travel expenses, hotel accommodation (overnight stays) and the travel ex-penses for the Learning Journey (Module 4) are not covered by the tuition fees.

We offer 2 discounted seats (50% reduction each) for start up companies. Please apply.

Minimum 3 years working experience.

German and English. (Groupwork in German possible)

The tuition fee for all modules amounts in EUR 18.500. This fee also includes 1 Prep Camp, 1 meet-up after the program, handouts and learning materials, workshop venue and coffee breaks.

Your travel expenses, hotel accommodation (overnight stays) and the travel expenses for the Learning Journey (Module 4) are not covered by the tuition fee.

We offer 2 discounted seats for start up companies and/or NGOs. Please reach out for further details.

TuITION

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wOrkINg LANguAgE

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by dwarfs and Giants please contact: Dr. Gerhard Hochreiter

c/o impact Hub ViennaLindengasse 56/2/I

1070 ViennaAustria

g.hochreiter@dwarfsandgiants.org

+43.699.13688081

www.dwarfsandgiants.org | www.facebook.com/dwarfsandgiants

bydwarfs and Giants

please contact: Dr. Gerhard Hochreiter

dwarfs and Giants GmbH & Co KGc/o impact Hub Vienna

Lindengasse 56/2/I, 1070 Vienna, Austria

g.hochreiter@dwarfsandgiants.org+43.699.13688081

www.dwarfsandgiants.org | www.facebook.com/dwarfsandgiants