An intensive professional development training course on
Organisational Business Agility Excellence
The Structure
This comprehensive training course consists of two modules which can be booked as a 10 Day Training event, or as individual, 5 Day training courses.
Module 1 - The Agile Leader
Module 2 - Organisational Agility Masterclass
The Course Content
Module 1 - The Agile Leader
Day One: From Traditional Leader - to the AGILE Leader
- The impact of the ‘new normal’ on Leadership thinking
- The basis of Agile methodology and its impact on leadership
- Key principles of Agile Leadership: defining the correct behaviours
- Understanding and applying the Agile Manifesto to Leadership
- The Psychology of Influence in Agile Leadership
- Empowerment for increased business agility
Day Two: Increasing Creativity and Innovation through Agile Leadership
- How the mind works on creativity and innovation
- Successful motivational behaviours for rapid thinking
- Lead group creativity and innovation to increase performance
- Developing flexible, inspiring, creative and innovative thinking
- Powerful and advanced idea generation model
- Using disruptive idea generation for business agility
Day Three: Agile Problem Solving and Decision Making – Self and Others
- Inspiring team/group motivation
- Problem solving: the leader and the mind
- Applying rapid ‘problem and need’ techniques using rapid Agile tools
- Key factors in decision making and how to get the best leverage
- Models and techniques in Agile decision-making
- Applying the powerful Agile Decision-Making Model
Day Four: Leading Agile Change Management: Principles and Methods
- Key traditional Change principles and models
- Agile Change: the importance of OODA Model and Kaizen
- Creating the clear vision using the Agile Change system
- Using empowerment for increasing rapid progress
- Overcoming obstacles, removing negativity to the vision
- Implementing and securing the change
Day Five: Creating an Agile Leadership Culture
- Defining organisational culture
- Key factors to lead an Agile organisation
- Communicating the Agile vision
- Developing the Agile Organisation
- Engaging key-stakeholders to Agile Leadership benefits
- Embedding Agile Leadership and next steps
Module 2 - Organisational Agility Masterclass
Day Six: The Current Business Contexts & Challenges
- Defining VUCA in the Modern World: the “New Norm”
- Impact of Volatility in the Team and Organisation
- Understanding the evolving needs of customers
- Acknowledging the emerging threats from the macro-environmental dynamics
- Understanding the challenges and opportunities facing the business
- Customer & stakeholder analysis: The Value proposition
Day Seven: The Genesis of Business Agility
- Foundations of Business Agility
- Application of Complexity Theory to the business environment
- What is an Agile Business?
- Why business need to be agile?
- Lean and agile principles
- Reframing all work in terms of value-adding performance criteria
Day Eight: The Business Agility Framework
- Agile People & Culture
- Agile Leadership
- Agile Strategy
- Agile Governance
- Agile Structure
- Agile Business operations
Day Nine: Skills and Tools to Sustain Business Agility
- Review a range of specific practice areas: Scrum, Kanban, Agile studios, etc.
- Understanding and leading change
- Building customer value and empathy
- Breaking paradigms
- Creating space for ideation and innovation
- Learning to identify and eliminate waste
Day Ten: Personal Competencies to Enhance Agility
- Common challenges in business agility
- Creating a growth mindset
- Working effectively in empowered teams
- Listening and collaboration skills
- Personal agility and building a personal brand
- Preparing a Personal Agility Plan for execution in the workplace
The Certificate
- AZTech Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course