Playful Leadership ~ How to Enable Transformational Change and Have Fun Doing It
Does creating change seem like a constant uphill struggle? Are you blocked by relentless resistance? Do you feel lost and alone in your efforts to create positive change?
It turns out change need not be full of pain and suffering. What’s more, the pain can be managed and the suffering is purely optional. According to child development experts, play is the most effective and efficient way of enabling children to learn, lead, collaborate and be at their best. It turns out this also holds true for adults, especially when it comes to organisational change, based on Portia’s 20+ years of working and playing with adults in organisations large and small.
In this highly interactive talk, you will experience the catalysing power of play and gain an understanding of how play can convert seemingly relentless resistance to change into joyful anticipation of growth instead. You will learn and experience the benefits of play firsthand and, by being re-acquainted with the knowledge of play, explore what being a playful leader means to you.
You will get the chance to befriend your Mind Monkey (aka your amygdala) and through a pawful of tried and tested tools and techniques from play science, neuroscience, psychology and coaching, you will develop a greater appreciation of how to create transformational change for you and others.
Play your cards right and you will increase not only your EQ but develop your Play IQ, the foundation of all intelligences according to the latest Play Science theory. No humans or monkeys were harmed in the creation of this session. Bananas not included.
This talk was first presented to more than 2000 people as a keynote at the largest global Agile conference Agile 2019. It will be the opening keynote at Agile Testing Days in Potsdam, Germany in autumn 2024.
We hope you enjoy watching the talk as much as Portia did in delivering it!
About Portia Tung
Portia Tung is the Play Alchemist, Executive Agile coach and founder of The School of Play – inspired by her dream of happier adulthood through lifelong play.
She coaches leaders to transform the world through the science and power of Play. She reconnects individuals and organisations to their greatest superpower Play.Through Portia’s combined experience of 25+ years as an Executive & Agile coach and Systemic Constellations Facilitator, she’s uncovered the secret formulae which brings about positive and enduring change among individuals, groups and teams. She calls this magic Play Alchemy and Playful Leadership is how we lead and live as our best playful self.
In her spare time, she enjoys befriending Jabberwockies, practising yoga, playing with the ukulele and her conch and having tea with fantastic creatures.Portia’s also the author of the first ever Agile single-player role-playing gamebook The Dream Team Nightmare: Boost Team Productivity Using Agile Techniques where you play the role of Agile Coach and your choices determines the outcome of the story.
Website – https://www.theschoolofplay.org/
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THE SCHOOL OF PLAY 