Certified Agile Leadership - Essentials & Organizations

This training focusses on three key leadership factors: people operations, self-management and organizational transformation. The goal is to bring awareness and understand the practices and principles of agility in the organizational and business setting. Case studies will be analyzed and through assessments, discussions and evaluations, and you will learn how to lead real change across your organizations. During this course you will learn to shift your mindset, evolve and lead to empower employees and to become an Agent of Change. 

Program

• The context for Agile: the importance of agility in today’s always changing environment and  the benefits for customers and employees. You will also get to know the Business Agility Sparks®: specific areas to build whole business agility 
• Agile overview: Agile values, principles and behaviors at an organizational level.  
• Leadership in an Agile context: required mindset shifts, the characteristics of a true Agile leader and the challenges you might face  
• The Agile organization: from organizational structure and factors that impact this structure to ways to increase trust and collaboration. 
• Agile approaches to change: From the importance of transparency to proven tools to assist through change  

You will gain hands-on experience in: 

• Identifying opportunities and gaps in your current Agile organization 
• Defining and refining your role as a leader of Agile teams 
• Developing a plan to improve your ability as an Agile leader 
• Building a fast, collaborative organizational climate that takes full advantage of agility 
• Crafting what agility looks like in end-to-end value streams 
• Developing a plan to “steer from the edges” and enable team self-organization 
• Creating concrete steps to improve your personal and organizational agility over the next quarter 

You will have the ability to: 

• Operate effectively as an agile team leader amid uncertainty, complexity and rapid change 
• Design an end-to-end agile organizational value stream 
• Develop short and long-term plans to drive better application of the agile mindset and techniques at an organizational level 
• Adopt agility in both development and non-technology contexts 
• Find creative solutions through increased self-awareness, a growth mindset and team engagement 

This Certified Agile Leadership Essentials for Organizational Leaders training is perfect for executives, (middle) managers, coaches, consultants and leaders, currently supporting or interacting with Agile teams. If you are responsible for an upcoming Agile transformation, you are more than welcome to join us. This training offers an accessible way to learn about Agile and lead the organization to true Agility, together with like-minded professionals who experience the same challenges.