Agile Parenting Workshops and Events

Any professional worth her salt has a repertoire of methods and tools for developing their teams, planning complex tasks or monitoring progress.

The Kanban board used for SCRUM, gamification as cultured in Design Thinking, and the minimalist approach of Lean Startup might be part of that toolbox. Only few people make a deliberate attempt to leverage what works well at work for the private domain, though. This is surprising since the ultimate goals of managing companies and families are the same: creating an environment where individuals will grow and contribute to the continuous improvement of that organization. 

The pandemic was our personal starting point for Agile Parenting since juggling a full-time job, home-schooling and household chores was just not doable any more without drastic changes to how responsibility was distributed and how tasks were organized at home.

Instead of communicating with our children’s teachers when a homework task was unclear, we encouraged our kids to reach out to the teachers themselves. Before they were doing so, we would enable them by explaining how to write a polite email. This reflects the Agile Principle of face-to-face communication that encourages direct contact of those who are the experts (school kid and teacher) instead of having a manager (parent) step in between.

Since then, we fill sprint backlogs with holiday activites, and ignite our kids’ scientific thinking with lapbooking. Wang Man is particularly consistent with using this as a powerful way to keep everyone aligned.

The practices of Agile have proven particularly powerful when navigating uncharted territory. And what would be more disrupting and unpredictable than family live?