Where your people go to gain the skills they need to get better products to market — faster.

Dojos are in-house learning environments staffed by experienced coaches who guide your teams as they learn newer, more effective ways of working and building digital products. They are ongoing forums in which employees learn by doing. They are places where information flows, ideas are exchanged, and experts collaborate as they develop and evolve top-quality real-world digital products.

Dojos are not about traditional course-based training — because today’s markets move too fast to make traditional course-based training economical. Certification programs provide too little, cost too much, and more than that, aren’t attuned to your company's discreet product development needs.

Let us teach you how to transform your organization with our online Dojo and Project to Product Workshops. We can also bring our corporate coaching to you.

Packages | WorkshopS | Consulting & Coaching

Packages

While Dojo and Co offers workshops and consulting as standalone options, we prefer to work with our client partners through more comprehensive engagements, ensuring we’re helping you achieve your desired outcomes every step of the way. Prices for services purchased as a package are discounted from our standard rates.

Six Month Startup Package

The six month dojo startup package is designed to get your organization’s dojo fully operational.

During the pilot phase we focus on bootstrapping your dojo and learning from two pilot teams. This enables us to maximize the dojo’s value and ensure teams are having optimum learning experiences.

We then move into an up and running phase with a strong emphasis on ensuring your organization can run the dojo in a self-sufficient manner. A significant aspect of this includes “coaching the coaches”, where we work with your coaches, helping them become effective dojo coaches. During this phase we’ll start dojo engagements for six teams, fully completing three of them. Your coaches will take over from there.

A typical dojo startup package lasts approximately six months and includes the following:

Pilot Phase:

Assessment of the current state of your organization
Creating Your Dojo bootstrapping workshop
Identifying and coaching two pilot teams through six-week dojo experiences
Reflecting on the pilot teams and making adjustments for further dojo experiences

Up and Running Phase

Coaching in the Dojo bootstrapping workshop
Helping your coaches coach three teams through full six-week dojo experiences and
Starting three additional teams.
The format of the six month package and the services in the package have been refined over the last five years through our experiences helping multiple organizations create successful dojos.

Customized Packages

If you are a larger organization, you may recognize the need up front for a long-term engagement. This situation typically arises when there are many teams, there’s a need to have dojos in multiple locations, there are many coaches to develop, or where there's simply a desire to have long-term support. These packages are all customized for each individual organization’s needs.

For organizations who are not ready to fully commit to creating a dojo we offer a three month pilot package. The pilot package consists of the activities described and shown above in the pilot phase of the six month engagement.

We’re happy to provide you a customized quote that leverages your existing coaching staff and your desired outcomes. Customized quotes take into account the number of people you’d like to attend the workshops and the desired number of coaches you’d like us to provide for the engagement.

Contact us to learn more about our services and to have us create a customized startup package, workshops, or coaching engagement for your organization.

Workshops

Dojo & Co. workshops are based on an immersive learning model. You’ll experience an exciting mix of hands-on exercises, discussion, real-world stories, and individualized mentoring. Most importantly, you’ll leave our workshops with the ability to start applying your new skills and knowledge immediately.

Creating Your Dojo

Faced with the challenges of multiple new technologies, processes, and ways of thinking, many organizations are embracing Dojos - immersive learning centers - as an effective way of upskilling their staff and creating a culture of continuous learning and transformation.

If you are interested in starting your dojo, then this workshop is for you.

Creating Your Dojo is an immersive, experiential workshop covering everything you need to know to create a dojo that meets the specific learning goals of your organization. The course is based on Dion Stewart and Joel Tosi’s book, "Creating Your Dojo: Upskill Your Organization for Digital Evolution". Dion and Joel have been helping organizations create and run dojos for five years.

What You Get:

A two-day workshop guided by Dion or Joel, recognized experts in helping organizations create and run dojos.
Slides and supporting workshop handouts covering the concepts and practices taught
A copy of Dion and Joel’s book, “Creating Your Dojo: Upskill Your Organization for Digital Evolution”
2 Live “Q&A” webinars to support you in creating your dojo (scheduled one month and two months after the workshop)
A 1-hour private consultation with Dion and/or Joel to discuss your dojo and your questions
A light breakfast, a full lunch, morning and afternoon snacks, and drinks

Who Should Attend

Transformation/Continuous Improvement Champions: to understand how dojos enable organizations to achieve their continuous improvement goals

Leaders in product management, agile/lean methods, cloud migrations, DevOps, security, and general engineering practices: to understand how a dojo helps teams learn practices and improve skills

Dojo Managers, Product Owners, and Operations Managers: to understand how to define dojo offerings, staff a dojo, and handle the logistical aspects of running a dojo

Dojo Coaches: to understand how to effectively deliver dojo experiences for teams and to understand how to leverage the dojo to make organizational improvements

What you'll learn

How to create alignment with the organization and set your dojo up for success: defining outcomes, impacts, and measurements
What makes dojos so effective and how they differ from common training approaches
Understanding how to execute the entire dojo life-cycle including an intake process for teams, chartering dojo engagements, coaching the engagements, and following up with teams post-dojo.
Defining your initial dojo offerings and practices
Designing your dojo’s physical space and equipment needs
Staffing your dojo, including required roles and skills
Strategies for hiring and growing dojo coaches, product owners, and operations managers
Running your dojo offerings
Identifying your first teams to participate in your dojo
Leveraging your dojo for large-scale organizational change
Marketing your dojo inside your organization
Keeping your dojo relevant over time

Participants will leave this workshop with all the knowledge they need to create and run a dojo in their organization. Like a dojo itself, the workshop is an immersive learning experience combining presentations and interactive exercises covering all aspects of creating and running a dojo.

This workshop is also available as on-site workshop. For more information, please contact us at hello@dojoandco.com.

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Coaching for Learning

Coaching in the dojo is different than traditional coaching. Coaching is focused on learning over delivery. Dojo coaches must learn how to make this shift in mindset and develop a set of coaching techniques for fostering learning that supplement the current coaching techniques they’ve developed.

The workshop will guide participants in understanding the dojo model and the dojo lifecycle. Coaches will understand how they are crucial for successfully onboarding teams during the intake stage. They’ll learn a set of practices for working with teams to foster learning and knowledge creation. In addition, they’ll learn how to practice their coaching techniques and mentor coaches new to the dojo model.

Learning Outcomes

Understanding how to execute the entire dojo life cycle including intake process for teams, chartering dojo engagements, the format of the engagements, and post-dojo follow-up
Coaching for learning vs coaching for delivery
The seven roles of a dojo coach
Designing exercises for knowledge creation
Tacit vs Explicit knowledge and the implications for learning in the dojo
Effective ways of practicing coaching techniques within the coaching group
How to mentor new dojo coaches

Participants will leave this workshop with all the knowledge they need to coach in a dojo in their organization. Like the dojo itself, the workshop is an immersive learning experience combining presentations and interactive experiences covering all aspects of dojo coaching.

Intended Audience

Anyone interested in coaching in a dojo in their organization. This includes scrum masters, agile coaches, and people new to coaching. It includes people interested in agile coaching, technical coaching, and product coaching. It also includes dojo product owners who want to gain a better understanding of the dojo product by understanding its key offering - dojo coaching.

Schedule

DAY 1

Dojo engagement life cycle
Defining offerings (types of engagements)
The coaches’ role during the intake process
Chartering Teams
Product Discovery practices for building dojo backlogs
Defining backlogs for continuous delivery pipeline improvement with value stream mapping

DAY 2

Core coaching skills (active listening, framing questions, storytelling, teaching)
The seven roles of a dojo coach
Coaching for knowledge creation
Tacit vs explicit knowledge
Using the dojo to make larger organizational changes
Practicing coaching techniques
Growing dojo coaches