Overview
Prerequisites
- Learners are required to have a grasp of fundamental Agile concepts
- Existing knowledge or experience of managing or leading agile teams would be beneficial but not essential.
Delegates will learn how to
- Understand the key aspects of organisational agility capability and agile leadership
- Be able to relate the key aspects to your own organisation and identify areas for potential improvement.
- Be able to assess leadership and management approaches and describe the necessary mindset, behavioural and priority shifts necessary for agile leaders.
- Relate different approaches to influence and power dynamics to different leadership styles and to your own experiences.
- Identify areas for personal growth and development related to your own leadership style.
- Contrast your own current leadership style with the traits of an agile leader
- Identify areas for growth and prepare a personal development plan.
- Relate your own experiences to human systems dynamics and explain why empathy and relationship management are necessary competencies for relationship agility.
- Understand the complexities of organizational transformation, how it requires radical shifts, and the impact it has on people and culture.
- Assess examples of when you have led by managing change and identify what you could have done differently to lead the change in a larger, future-oriented context.
Outline
- Organizational Agility Capability
- Why Agility in Leadership is needed
- Understanding Power & Influence
- Leadership Styles
- Self-Awareness & Self- Management
- Mindfulness
- Growth Mindset for Leadership
- Personal Purpose and Values
- Assessing Yourself as a Leader
- Skills of Development
- Mental Model
- Mental Models (Part 2)
- Committing to and Practicing Agile Values
- Emotional Intelligence in Relationships
- Thinking about organisations as human systems
- Conversations as the Key Vehicle of Communication in Agile Leadership
- Telling Compelling Stories as a Leader
- The Nature of Organizational Transformation
- Why Transformation is needed for Agility
- Leading from the Future and the Larger Context
- Leader as Agent of Transformation
- Wrap up and reflections
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