Are you or people in your organization feeling overwhelmed with their workload? Do they feel they are not getting the results they want from the actions they are taking? Does everything seem urgently important? Despite our best intentions, life has a way of becoming complicated. People, tasks, responsibilities, deadlines, and even recreation all compete for our attention. The human brain, however, simply does not respond well to the stress of juggling multiple priorities. This session will introduce you to Personal Kanban™, which is based on Lean principles and has proved to be a valuable tool for personal effectiveness and improvement. The effectiveness comes not from machine-like productivity and utilization, but from creating value and doing the right thing at the right time. Personal Kanban™ has two core practices derived from the big-K Kanban (visualize and limit work-in-progress) and, like its enterprise sibling, Personal Kanban™ can be your improvement engine. You can apply it to achieve clarity in meetings and conversations, to avoid bottlenecks in improvement initiatives, to handle tasks during the sprint, to guide your professional development, and to deal with other types of demand. This session will give you both an explanation and hands-on experience with Personal Kanban. Personal Kanban™ was created by Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry. Find out more at http://www.personalkanban.com

1. Small ‘k’
Kanban
Gerry Kirk
NuFocus Consulting
Group
@gerrykirk
gerrykirk.net

3. Can you do this 10
min task?
Your kid is struggling
at school
This report is due
tomorrow am
Where’s my email reply?
Be Product Owner
for teams A&B

4. &*#! Agile
Can you do this 10
min task?
Your kid is struggling
at school
This report is due
tomorrow am
Where’s my email reply?
Be Product Owner
for teams A&B

6. How to prioritize?

7. They don’t
understand!
How to prioritize?

8. They don’t
understand!
Too stressed,
tired
How to prioritize?

9. They don’t
Don’t drop any of understand!
these!
Too stressed,
tired
How to prioritize?

10. They don’t
Don’t drop any of understand!
these!
Too stressed,
tired
How to prioritize?
Where’d the
fun go?

11. “I wish there
were more
hours in the
day.”
You

12. What would
you do with 2
“I wish there
extra hours?
were more
hours in the Important Facts Ahas / New Ideas
day.” Questions Action Plans
You
Gerry Kirk | www.gerrykirk.net | g,kirk@nufocusgroup.com

13. “The
unexamined
life is not
worth living.”
Socrates

14. Where’s the
app for that?
“The
unexamined
life is not
worth living.”
Socrates

15. 20+
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16. To-do lists

17. Do more of
what you love
Personal Kanban

18. ditions for
Set con
e to cre ate
pe opl ults
hing res
a sto nis

19. Do more of
what you love

20. Two simple rules

21. Rule #1: Visualize work

22. Do more of
what you love

28. 3 things
60 seconds!

29. Rule #2: Start stopping,
start finishing

30. Game time!

31. 20%

32. Flow Quality Life
Continuous
improvement
Prioritizing
Managing
interruptions Limit WIP
strategies

33. 60 seconds!
10 most important
points today

35. My boss & team
understand

36. My boss & team
understand
Seeing my options
is liberating!

37. My boss & team
understand
Seeing my options
I’m doing more of is liberating!
what matters

38. My boss & team
understand
Seeing my options
I’m doing more of is liberating!
what matters
My teams need to
use this!

39. I’m too sexy for My boss & team
this tie understand
Seeing my options
I’m doing more of is liberating!
what matters
My teams need to
use this!

41. Personal
Kanban

42. Personal
Kanban

43. It’s your turn!
Claim your 20%

44. $20 (20% off)
+ free shipping

45. Win free copy
$20 (20% off)
+ free shipping

46. Workshops
(tomorrow!)
Consulting
Organizations
Teams
Individuals