Your team doesn't just learn about Obeya.
It builds its own board.
In Obeya basics, your team builds its own board, sets out its goals, organises its lanes and agrees on how to run its meetings. By the end of the training, your team runs its first board meeting.
What to expect from Obeya basics
Together, we agree on the programme, the team appoints its Navigators, and we agree on arrangements for the board.
Everyone explores the challenges in their current meetings, the origins of Obeya and how the board works, step by step within the software.
Navigators first complete online learning about their role, followed by a full day of practical training. This prepares them to lead parts of the team training days themselves.
Using management's vision as a starting point, the team creates the board's lanes and defines a vision for each. It then practises running a board meeting and agrees on its own golden rules.
With support from online learning, the people responsible for each lane develop its vision, three goals and monthly actions. We review their work and provide feedback.
Together, the team reviews the goals and adds them to the board. The team learns how to address an issue that is holding up progress and runs its first board meeting.
We attend one of your team's board meetings and identify any further support you need.
Learn the theory beforehand. Put it into practice together during training.
The first practice round deliberately starts without rules. The team uses what it learns to develop its own framework and write its golden rules in its own words.
During online learning, participants work directly in the software, building their board step by step from scratch.
Participants continue working with what they create during online learning when they attend the training. There's no need to start again.
Your annual plan and team goals on the board
Many teams have an annual plan. It was drawn up with care, and then it sits in a folder. In Obeya basics, the team doesn't make its annual plan on paper, but on the board. And that board stays in use.
The starting point: management's vision
The starting point is management's vision: why the organisation does what it does. It goes on the board in the panel Why we do it. If that vision doesn't exist yet, or is too vague to work with, management first develops it in a vision session.
Lanes, each with its own direction
On the first training day, the team divides its work into lanes. A lane is a theme or area the team works on, for example client care, working with other departments or the team's own people. Each lane gets its own direction, in the panel Where we are heading.
Setting team goals
In the two weeks between the training days, each lane works on three goals. A good team goal describes what will be different once it has been achieved, with an owner and a deadline. Then come the steps per month: what needs to happen in which month to achieve the goal? We review the work and give feedback.
On the second training day, the team reviews the goals together and adds them to the board. Each goal has a metric with a target value, so the team can see in the meeting whether it is on track.
What's on the board at the end
From left to right: why you do it, where each lane is heading, the goals, the metrics and the months. Next to these are What's holding us back? and What went well. That is the team's annual plan, on one board. The difference from a plan in a folder: the team looks at it in every meeting, and adjusts it when needed.
Someone needs to keep the bigger picture in view
The board shows your team's progress. The Navigator helps turn that information into action. Obeya needs active participation to work. Someone needs to notice when discussions lose focus, when work becomes disconnected from goals or when decisions are left unresolved. The Navigator takes on this role. A member of the team, they prepare meetings, guide discussions and make sure agreed actions are followed up. Their role goes beyond working through an agenda.
Obeya basics trains three or four team members as Navigators. They lead parts of the training days and go on to facilitate the team's regular board meetings.
What you'll leave with
- Board lanes, each with its own vision aligned with management's overall vision.
- Three goals for each lane, with named owners, agreed timeframes and monthly actions.
- Golden rules for meetings, written in your team's own words.
- A standard agenda and a meeting schedule that suits your team.
- Three or four trained Navigators.
- A board set up in the software, ready for your team to continue using.
- A certificate for everyone who completes the full training programme.
Who the training is for
For teams of up to 20 people in any organisation. Managers take part in the online learning and training days alongside their teams. The training takes place at your premises.
Questions about Obeya basics
What does the team learn in Obeya basics?
The team learns to review together where it stands, choose what needs to happen next and agree who does what. To do this, it builds its own board: lanes, each with its own direction, three goals per lane and the steps per month. And it practises the meeting at that board, with its own golden rules.
What does the team have at the end?
A board set up in the software, ready for your team to continue using. Golden rules for meetings, a standard agenda and a meeting schedule that suits your team. Three or four trained Navigators. And a certificate for everyone who completes the full training programme.
Do you get a certificate?
Yes. Everyone who completes the whole Obeya basics programme receives a certificate. This applies to all Midflyt training.
Do you need to know Obeya already?
No. Everyone starts with the introductory e-learning, directly in the software. Participants continue working with what they create there when they attend the training. There's no need to start again.
Which teams is it for?
For teams of up to 20 people, in any organisation. Managers take part in the e-learning and the training days. For larger teams, we arrange a second training group.
What happens after the training?
The team runs its own Obeya, with its own Navigators. On the follow-up day, we attend one of the team's board meetings and identify any further support you need. After that, the team can continue with, for example, an annual planning session, peer sessions for Navigators or help with a problem that is stuck.
Would you like to know what Obeya basics could look like for your team?
Every programme is tailored to the team and the organisation. In an introductory meeting, we'll explore what would suit you.