What is Management 3.0 #Workout?

That’s how management guru Jurgen Appelo kicked off his third book, #Workout: Games, Tools and Practices to Engage people, Improve Work, and Delight Clients. Jurgen wrote this book in 2014 to meet the demand for a modern management guide to transforming leadership and team collaboration through creativity, productivity and employee engagement. It’s a full-color, 500-page, no-bull proactive guide with exercises you can immediately apply with your team today.*

Since its release, #Workout has taken the management world by storm with a series of one-day #Workout workshops, just as fun, just as colorful, just as hands-on and just as proactive as the book version. But, even better than the book, you get to workshop with and learn from fellow managers and team leaders just like yourself!

Who should attend a #Workout Workshop?

We call this management coaching style a #Workout because it’s just that, something that you have to keep adapting to your needs every day (or else you’ll just sit on the sofa and nothing will get better.) For example, imagine you love swimming but travel around a lot for work. Without a portable swimming pool, you need to adapt your exercise routine for the tools you have – in this case, your trainers – so you run. Management 3.0 is all about offering you actionable ways to increase employee engagement and team collaboration by finding the right routine for your team.

This also means that each Workshop is different, adapting to the different attendees’ sectors and needs. Most workshops include a diverse mix of teammates and team leaders, project managers, knowledge workers, middle management and top-level execs, agile developers and scrum masters, human resources and start-up heads. At Management 3.0, we believe that management is too important just to be left to the managers, so anyone looking to improve management in their organization is a welcome addition to any workshop discussion.

Do I need to attend the two-day Management 3.0 Workshop first?

It’s recommended but not necessary to attend a Two-day Management 3.0 Workshop (we sometimes call it “Seminar”) first. Both sets of workshops discuss similar topics — the definition of leadership and how it can fit into the future of management — but approach it in different ways with completely different material. The two-day workshop helps take agile management practices beyond software development to mainstream management, and #Workout takes it further by allowing you and fellow managers to dive into an even broader selection of content, play serious games and apply best practices together that you can then take back to your office.

Do I need to read #Workout before attending?

Everybody does it differently. Some feel more prepared by having read the Management 3.0 books before attending, while others want to come to the #Workout Workshop with a completely blank slate and then dive into the book afterward. Many but not all of the exercises found in the book are implemented at the one-day workshop, as well as not all of the exercises from the Workshop are found in the book. Certainly, both complement each other and are filled with actionable management insights. Similarly, Jurgen’s first book Management 3.0 and #Workout address the same issues in different ways. Reading the books beforehand may lead to deeper discussions and storytelling, but the best workshops have ample diversity of thought, so do what’s best for you.

Are YOU ready for your management #Workout? Get prepared for one of our upcoming events in Austria, Germany and (always) a couple of other countries across the globe!