Last week, Nick and Aaron McKenna travelled to Stockholm to undertake the Management 3.0 two-day training course in order to apply to become Management 3.0 Licensed Facilitators.
What is Management 3.0?
Management 3.0 is an innovative, agile and people focused approach to management in today’s ever changing world. Ideas from different disciplines such as agile and complexity thinking are blended together to form the future of leadership in modern organisations.
As one of a few Management 3.0 Licensed Facilitators in the UK, Nick and Aaron will be running public training courses and working with our current customers who are agile leaders to develop their leadership skills and management qualities.
If you want to find out more about how Management 3.0 can help you become a better leader, then please get in touch. Keep your eyes peeled for an announcement of our next training course very soon!
What Is Management 3.0?
Management 3.0 is a leadership framework developed by Jurgen Appelo that redefines how organisations think about managing people. Rather than treating management as a top-down hierarchy, Management 3.0 views it as a group responsibility — where leaders create the conditions for teams to manage themselves effectively.
The framework offers a collection of practical tools and games that address real leadership challenges: how to motivate teams, how to empower people without losing alignment, how to structure organisations for agility, and how to develop competence across the workforce. It draws on complexity science, motivation theory, and lean thinking to provide a modern, evidence-based approach to leadership. For a deeper dive, read our post on how to be a better leader with Management 3.0.
Why Management 3.0 Complements Agile
Agile transformations frequently stall because the management layer does not change. Teams adopt Scrum or Kanban, but their managers continue to assign work, measure individual output, and make decisions that should belong to the team. Management 3.0 bridges this gap by giving leaders a practical toolkit for supporting agile teams rather than directing them.
In our experience, the organisations that sustain agile improvements are those where leadership behaviours evolve alongside team practices. Management 3.0 provides a structured way to make that shift — moving from command-and-control to servant leadership with concrete tools rather than abstract principles. We have also explored how these leadership practices integrate with scaled frameworks in our post on using Management 3.0 with SAFe.
What We Gained from the Training
Completing the two-day Management 3.0 training in Stockholm gave us both a deeper understanding of the framework and the licence to facilitate Management 3.0 workshops with our clients. The course covered key practices including Delegation Poker, Moving Motivators, Merit Money, and the Competency Matrix — all of which we now incorporate into our coaching and training engagements.
As Licensed Facilitators, we can deliver official Management 3.0 workshops as well as integrate these practices into broader agile transformation programmes. For more on leadership tools in agile contexts, see our guide to mastering agile leadership tools.
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