Agile Leadership

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Smart leaders realise that career advancement is based on the business results they achieve rather than the knowledge they hold. In today's world of rapid change, agility is required to deliver these results. In this Agile training course, you learn how to apply and facilitate an Agile leadership framework to realise your career aspirations and advance your organisation's goals. In this course, attendees gain the knowledge and skills to apply an Agile leadership framework to their leadership style in order to benefit their career and achieve their organisation's business goals. Attendees build a personal Agile leadership action plan, apply emotional intelligence in the face of uncertainty and gain the knowledge to empower Agile teams for success. Upon completing this course, attendees will know how to embrace and exploit the uncertainty in their organisation's future and increase the effectiveness of Lean and Agile initiatives in their business. Who will benefit from this course? This course is beneficial for managers and individual contributors who want to lead in an organisation defined by rapid change, and particularly one transitioning to Lean and Agile methodologies. Learning Objectives Lead your organisation into the future by identifying and enhancing business valueIncrease the effectiveness of your organisation's Lean and Agile initiativesDevelop your emotional intelligence to overcome resistance to changeAlign and amplify contemporary leadership principles under the umbrella of our Agile Leadership ModelHands-On Experience:Defining the specific business value your organisation seeks and rewardsIdentifying business opportunities that will benefit from an Agile approachRole-playing leadership responses to realistic case study scenariosApplying emotional intelligence principles to enhance your reputation as an Agile leaderUsing our Agile Leadership Model to drive your performance in your organisation

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Subjects

  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Leadership
  • Lean

Course programme

The Agile Leadership Framework

  • Finding your leadership style through the prism of established leadership models
  • Evaluating prevalent leadership models
  • The Agile Leadership Model
  • Building your analytical and behavioural skill sets
  • Defining the behaviours and values of the Agile leader
Adding Business Value to the Organisational MissionAppreciating diverse organisational cultures
  • Analysing the characteristics of hierarchal and adaptive structures
  • The myth of the broken organisation
  • Distinguishing complicated, complex and chaotic systems
  • Agile and the Fifth Discipline
Identifying business value
  • Defining your sphere of influence
  • Developing organisational mission statements
  • Quantifying strategic plans using metrics
  • Tangible and intangible business values
Embracing Uncertainty to Increase Business ValueRecognising root causes
  • Accounting for the planning fallacy
  • Determining the effects of complexity on your organisation
  • The danger of extrapolating the past
  • The Innovator's Dilemma
Exploiting uncertainty
  • Applying the Cynefin Framework
  • Identifying disruptive technologies
The Agile Leader's ToolkitApplying development methodologies
  • The domain of traditional methodologies
  • The domain of agile methodologies
  • Agile Project Management (PMI)
  • Scrum development methodology
  • Dynamic System Development Method
Managing risk
  • Traditional risk management
  • Agile risk management
  • Timeboxing to counter scope creep
  • The premortem versus the postmortem
  • Addressing the technology landscape
Emotional Intelligence for the Agile LeaderCultivating your emotional intelligence
  • The Emotional Intelligence Framework
  • Identifying resistance to change in your organisation
  • Applying active listening techniques
  • Avoiding group think
Sharpening your influencing skills
  • The importance of a leader's vision
  • Finding the balance between logic and emotion in fostering change
  • Appreciating the importance of reciprocity
  • Building an Agile coalition network
Creating an Agile EnvironmentEmpowering teams and fostering their success
  • Identifying the structural empowerment required for the Agile team
  • Implementing the psychological empowerment required for the Agile team
  • Bringing leadership to the Scrum meeting
  • The reality of the 10x developer
Problem solving
  • Measuring the performance of Agile teams
  • The importance of strategic thinking in problem solving
  • The application of brainstorming to problem solving
Making decisions in a complex world
  • Making the decision right while making the right decision
  • Ensuring the "waterfall left hand" knows what the "Agile right hand" is doing
Implementing Your Agile Leadership Action Plan
  • Recognising the importance of action planning
  • Creating your action plan

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