In this practical hands on course, you’ll learn how to create your own way of working that adapts to you and the world around you — helping you feel more organised, focused and in control, even when life or work feels messy or uncertain.

• Reduce overwhelm by breaking tasks into manageable steps using simple tools

• Stay organised and focused with your own adaptable planner — digital or physical

• Keep track of everything real-time in one place - no more wondering where you put things

• Feel more in control of shifting priorities, projects and to-do lists

• Make confident decisions using an adaptive mindset to navigate uncertainty

• Work more effectively by reviewing and improving how you work over time

• Manage real projects and ideas using practical, flexible planning methods

• Get unstuck and feel more motivated by seeing visible progress and quick wins

• Collaborate more smoothly with tools that reduce emails and improve communication

• Create a way of working that fits you — agile, adaptable and sustainable

This course is ideal if you’re juggling multiple demands, starting something new, or simply ready to work in a clearer, simpler way.

1. Supports Collaboration - Agile brings people together. It helps teams, freelancers, and volunteers stay on the same page, share ideas, and move forward with clarity and confidence.

2. Adapts to Change - Projects in the arts often shift, new partners join, funding changes, ideas evolve. Agile helps you respond to changes without losing momentum.

3. Works with Limited Time and Resources - Agile is all about doing what matters most, first. It helps you focus your energy and make steady progress, even with small teams or tight budgets.

4. Encourages Creativity and Experimentation - Agile supports trying things out, learning as you go, and refining your ideas, making it ideal for creative work, exhibitions, and engagement programmes.

5. Fits Your Values - Agile puts people first. It’s built on trust, openness, care and continuous learning, values that already run deep in arts and heritage work.

Attendees will gain a clear understanding of the principles and theory behind agile working, as well as practically apply agile principles and practices within their own working environment.

• Agile Thinking – understand and develop an agile mind set

• Agile Method – adopt agile principles and practices

• Agile Approach – implement practical tools and techniques

• Agile Culture – create an environment that enables agility

Course Details

• 3 hour online course

• Platform : Zoom

• No previous knowledge required

• Course level : Introduction

• Suitable for : Arts, Heritage & Creative teams & organisations.

• Type : Theory, Discussion and Practical application

Belinda is a business coach, trainer, speaker and author. She supports individuals, teams and organisations to adopt an agile way of working to enhance their well-being, productivity and growth.

Belinda has worked with Museums, Heritage and Arts organisations internationally to adopt agile approaches since 2015. Her favourite subjects at school were English, Art, History and Geography, so it makes sense her career has led her to work in the sector.

During that time she has worked with organisations including; Arts Council England, National Trust, Cornwall Museums Partnership, Museum Managers Network, The MERL, Media Majlis (Doha), Falmouth Maritime Museum, Durham Cathedral, and the Wildlife Trust.

She enjoys sharing her experience and knowledge, speaking at events, including being a keynote speaker at AMA. She has worked with a variety of sectors during her 25 year career as a Business Growth Coach.

Belinda’s book, Being Agile in Business is a popular non-technical introduction to agile thinking, approaches and culture, her work has been published in the Times and featured on BBC Radio 4.

When she's not being agile in business, you'll find her enjoying the countryside with her pony Murphy and Jack Russell Jed. She is a supporter and avid user of the Heritage Clay trails in Cornwall with Murphy and Jed, and the co-director and prompt for her local Amateur Dramatics Group. Belinda brings her agile mindset and approach to everything she does, both on and off stage, alongside her passion and enthusiasm for embracing the new, and preserving the old.