The Covid19 has caused much of the economy to shut down, caused many people to work from home (while taking care of their kids!), and caused many people to rethink what they do and how they do it. The world is coming to an end. Or is it a great opportunity? Or both? We’ll look at how finding purpose can help you face the future without fear and how personal agility can help find purpose of move forward despite the challenges around you.

1. Finding Purpose Through
Personal Agility
Peter Stevens
Agile Baden
May 4, 2020
© 2020 Personal Agility Institute LLC

2. Introductions

3. Meet Peter Stevens
“Mr. What Really Matters”
Image courtesy of Peter Stevens

4. Where were you when
the lockdown order
came?

5. When the lockdown came, I was finishing
a workshop on Extreme Manufacturing
Photo and drawing courtesy of Peter Stevens

6. Introduce yourselves to each other
to present your partner to the group
What would
you like to
learn today?
What were you
doing when it
happened?
What was the
first important
news event
you can
remember?

7. You will enter a breakout room for the introductions. When you
see “1 minute left,” get ready to present your partner
What would
you like to
learn today?
What were you
doing when it
happened?
What was the
first important
news event
you can
remember?

8. How do you find purpose in chaos?
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9. Our Program
• What is Personal Agility?
• How I used Personal Agility to find my way after the lock down came
• Why would you want to learn The Personal Agility System?
• Apero

10. First Session
Why would you
want to learn
The Personal
Agility System?
How I used PAS
to find my way
in chaos
What is The
Personal Agility
System?

11. First Session
What is The
Personal Agility
System?

12. Most of us have too much to do and not enough time to
do it
Capacity
Demand
“to do’s”

13. If you don’t where you are,

14. If you don’t where you are,
how can you know where you are going

15. Six questions and one recurring event help you
navigate and focus
Celebrate & Choose
What could
I do this
week?
What can I
expect to
get done?
What really
matters?
Do
What is
important,
urgent or
happy?
Who can
help?
What did I
do last
week?
🎉
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16. Six questions and one recurring event help you
feel good about yourself
Celebrate & Choose
Stuff done,
Closer to who
you want to be
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,
urgent or
happy?
Who can
help?
What did I
do last
week?
🎉
Choose photo credit: Stockfresh.com

17. Image courtesy of Peter Stevens
Visualize your progress on your
PAS Priorities Map and PAS Breadcrumb Trail

18. The Personal Agility System is:
• A Simple Coaching Framework
• to help you (or others) become who
you want to be
• A Navigation Metaphor
• “Life is an ocean – it’s your boat!”
• Six Powerful Questions
• So know where you are and where
you are going
• One Weekly Event
• Helps you stay on course
• A collection of tools and
techniques to understand
yourself and others
• PAS Priorities Map
• PAS Breadcrumb Trail
• PAS Alignment Compass
• PAS Forces Map
• PAS Stakeholder Canvas

19. • Discuss in the breakout room.
• When you see the 60s warning, write your answers in the chat
What did you do last week?
What did you do, that you are excited about?

20. The Personal Agility System is a GPS Navigator
for your life, company or project

21. First Session
How I used PAS
to find my way
in chaos
What is The
Personal Agility
System?

22. How is life
different in a
chaotic
situation?
Image courtesy of Richard Burlton/Unsplash

23. When you are in an
activated state,
it is hard to think
clearly
Image courtesy of Peter Stevens

24. There was a lot to
keep me busy
• What do we need for supplies?
• Cancel (no, postpone) Monday’s
class
• What should Joe do?
• What happened to my
customers?
• What now?

25. When does the money
run out?

26. Full shelves - a signal to come out of panic mode
Image courtesy of Peter Stevens

27. Aren’t you on course to your “Jamaica”?

28. Well, no. I’d “fallen off the wagon” – and it showed
• How I was spending my time
1. PA:
“Make Personal Agility a thing”
2. FHH:
Family Health and Happiness
3. RMB:
Run my Business
4. BW:
Better World
PA
RM
B
FHH
% of tasks completed the support each WRM
BW

29. Peter, have you
considered doing
Personal Agility?
Images courtesy of Peter Stevens

30. • v
Peter, have you
considered doing
Personal Agility?
Uh, this is
embarrassing!

31. I started with ‘Why’
I want to realize my potential

32. What is the potential of
Personal Agility?
Sharon Guerin From Struggling to Thriving
• Wants to start a business and a YouTube channel
Challenge
• Life gets in the way
Path to success
• Personal Agility
• Coaching
• Microcredits
Potential
• 100 Million people
in a similar situation
Photo courtesy Sharon Guerin
“The Culinary Queen”
Sharon Guerin

33. I reset my priorities
I want to realize my potential
Long Term
over
Short Term
Clean up the
“construction
sites” in my life
Stay healthy and
happy
Run my business

34. I want to realize my potential
Long Term
Over
Short Term
Clean up the
“construction
sites” in my life
Stay healthy and
happy
Run my business
And this led to new
choices about how to
spend my time

35. LT->ST
SH&H
CS
RMB
In the first week, I had completely refocused my energy
• How I was spending my time
1. LT->ST:
“Enable Sharon’s through Personal
Agility ”
2. CS:
Close down Construction Sites
3. SH&H:
Stay Healthy and Happy
4. RMB:
Run My Business
% of tasks completed the support each WRM

36. Summary –
What helped me
to establish a
new course in
my life?
Exposure to
new ideas
(and
openness to
the ideas)
The right
question at
the right
moment
My Compass
--
What really
matters

37. Summary –
What helped me
to establish a
new course in
my life?
Who can I
help?
Who do I
want to be?
One week
sprints are
inspiring
Having a
course makes
you an
inspiration to
others

38. Tips for Coping with Chaos
• Breathe
• Keep the Boat Afloat
• What do you have to do right away?
• Have a goal or a purpose
• Who do you want to be?
• Who can you help?
• Be the captain of your boat
• What really matters to you?
• What can you accomplish this week to get closer to WRM?

39. First Session
Why would you
want to learn
The Personal
Agility System?
How I used PAS
to find my way
in chaos
What is The
Personal Agility
System?

40. Goal
• Company Turn-Around. Create value for the customer. Each
individual needs to know why they come to work for us
Challenge
• The company was no longer profitable. I needed to
change basic things fast to save the company.
Achieved
• Disaster averted. Virtually eliminated employee turn-over.
Focus on value for customer to achieve profitability
Path to success
• Personal Agility (WRM, PAS Priorities Map) was essential to
avoid disaster. Prioritize, Focus and Learn.
• Stakeholder Canvas as analysis tool to better understand
customers
• Scrum to organize the work of the company
Photo courtesy Walter Stulzer
Leading and Coaching
Walter Stulzer
Executive Director, Futureworks | Zurich, Switzerland

41. Goal
• Finish university
Challenge
• Too many plates on my table. High workload and many
activities to keep track of
Achieved
• Allocate my time systematically. Be successful and have
time for friends & family. Compete degree and CIMA
Management level. Discovered compere as a hobby. Now
a recurring guest on national TV format.
Path to success
• Celebrate and Choose event was most important element.
• Appreciating what I did lowered my stress and enabled me
to take breaks without feeling guilty
Photo courtesy XtremeYouth
Starting Your Career
Tuhan Sapumanage
BSc (Hons) Computing (UK)| Colombo, Sri Lanka

42. Goal
• Quit my job to start my own consulting firm.
Challenge
• So much to do as a sole proprietor. No time for my kids.
Unable to get closure on activities. Company not thriving
Achieved
• Became organized and sorted. Company is thriving and
growing. People want to work with me, because they
know they will grow with me.
Path to success
• What Really Matters
• The 6 Questions, Celebrate and Choose
• PAS Priorities Map and PAS Breadcrumb Trail
Photo courtesy Shweta Jaiswal
Ambitious Entrepreneurs
Shweta Jaiswal
Entrepreneur | Gurgaon, India

43. Goal
• Your Story Goes Here
Challenge
•
Achieved
•
Path to success
•
•
•
Photo courtesy Sharon Guerin
On to the Next Level!
Would You Like to Be Here?
Become or achieve what you want

44. Personal Agility
Certification Program

46. What is the certification path in Personal Agility?
• Read PA Guide or Book
• Take an approved class
8 contact hours or more
• Apply Personal Agility
for 1 month or more
• Apply for Recognition
• Pass a coaching call
• Be a PARP
• Have a recognized coaching
or training certification
• Speak and write about the
Personal Agility System
• Apply, Agree to work with
PAI
• Read PA Guide or Book
• Apply Personal Agility
for 1 month or more
• Apply for Recognition
• Pass a coaching call

47. Why would an employer want a Certified
Personal Agility Recognized Practitioner?
• You can use all the tools & techniques
• You use coaching and powerful
questions to achieve optimal outcomes
• You can focus on business goals
• You can overcome fears and obstacles
to achieve long-term goals
• You can apply servant leadership to
build alignment & influence
• You are skilled at working with people
to solve problems
• You are authorized to train and certify
Personal Agility System practitioners
• You are a recognized expert and
member of your community
• You have an international network and
body of knowledge at your disposal
• You are good at getting things done
• You can focus on the right things
• Scrum other Agile frameworks will be
natural for you

48. Who benefits from PARE certification?
Students
Self-Starters
Self-Taught
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49. Who benefits from PARP certification?
• Executives and Other Leaders in
an Agile Transition
• Team Leaders and Managers
• Scrum Masters & Agile Coaches
• Product Owners, Project
Managers and Business Analysts
• Job Hunters
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50. Questions?
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51. Don’t
• Emails, chat messages or other
business
Do
• Stretch
• Walk around
• Get some refreshment
• Network in the breakout room
• Be back in 10 minutes
It’s break time
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52. Thank you
• Peter - https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterstev/
• Janani - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jananil/

53. How do you figure
out what really
matters?
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54. How do you figure
out what really
matters?
• Ask yourself
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55. How do you figure
out what really
matters?
• Ask yourself
• Who do you want to be?
(when you grow up)
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56. How do you figure
out what really
matters?
• Ask yourself
• Who do you want to be?
(when you grow up)
• Look at how you
spent your time
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57. How do you figure
out what really
matters?
• Ask yourself
• Who do you want to be?
(when you grow up)
• Look at how you
spent your time
• Look at how you
plan / must / want
to spend your time
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58. How do you figure
out what really
matters?
• Ask yourself
• Who do you want to be?
(when you grow up)
• Look at how you
spent your time
• Look at how you
plan / must / want
to spend your time
• Eureka Moments
Photo courtesy Niki Sanders @unsplash

59. How do you figure
out what really
matters?
• Ask yourself
• Who do you want to be?
(when you grow up)
• Look at how you
spent your time
• Look at how you
plan / must / want
to spend your time
• Eureka Moments
• Coaching
Photo courtesy Jeffrey F Lin @unsplash

60. How do you figure
out what really
matters?
• Ask yourself
• Who do you want to be?
(when you grow up)
• Look at how you
spent your time
• Look at how you
plan / must / want
to spend your time
• Eureka Moments
• Coaching
• Listen to your stakeholders
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