Course Taxonomy: Enterprise & Product Agility

Part 1: Organizational Strategy & Delivery

Vision/Mission/Values

• List three common challenges leaders face today related to organizational strategy & delivery and explore their underlying causes.
• Explore the distinctions between control and influence impact on leadership behaviors.
• Discuss the influence of vision, mission, and values on organizational performance.
• Explain how organizational culture emerges from the organization's vision, missions, and values.

Part 2: Organizational Strategy

• Examine how organizational strategy contributes to fostering agility within an organization.
• Examine the role of at least three structural constructs for execution of organizational strategy.

Part 3: Organizational Structure and Design

• Evaluate two organizational design principles and how it impacts the structure beyond individual teams to promote autonomy and collaboration within the workforce.
• Explain how your organizational structure and design positively or negatively impact its strategy, vision, mission, values, and culture.
• Propose changes to your organizational structure based on current challenges and potential benefits.
• Identify team structures that would reduce dependencies within an organization.

Part 4: Value & Metrics

• Discuss at least one approach or technique to improve delivering value to customers end-to-end across an organization.
• Analyze three examples of how your organization's structure either facilitates or hinders the delivery of value.
• Outline at least three common organizational practices that foster continuous improvement and support organizational change.
• Compare appropriate and inappropriate uses of metrics and its impact on organizational agility.
• Practice two examples of how to use appropriate metrics for different levels of the organizational value system.

Part 5: Change Management

• Outline what change management is and explore common misconceptions associated with it.
• Recognize the importance of leadership alignment on an overall change management approach.
• Summarize three approaches that a leader can use to support organizational change management or continuous improvement efforts.
• Explore the core aspects of at least one change management approach and how these align (or not) to your organization’s current change approach.

Part 6: Developing as a Leader: Leadership Competencies

• Develop a personalized leadership approach focused on continual learning, collaborative working relationships, team growth, and evolving challenges.
• Identify at least three common obstacles and challenges that leaders encounter in their personal development, and two strategies to overcome them.

Part 7: People Management

• Identify at least three challenges commonly encountered when developing and managing
• people.

Part 8: Delegation & Decision Making

• Explore a delegation model and its associated principles of accountability for the team and leader development.
• Explore two decision-making models and how they support the shift from being an expert-centric leader to a collaborative leader.

Part 9: Feedback

• Explore at least two feedback models to effectively deliver and receive feedback.

Part 10: Conflict Management

• Discuss how to use a conflict model to resolve conflicts and promote positive outcomes that foster cohesive team dynamics within organizations.

Part 11: Difficult Conversations

• Explore the effectiveness of at least two communication strategies to use when conducting difficult conversations.

Part 12: Influencing

• Describe how to use an influencing model to develop effective strategies that guide others toward desired organizational outcomes, given your organizational situation or circumstances.

Every organization is different, so we've designed the series to be modular, allowing customization that is fit for your purpose, needs, and goals. There are two types of modules, foundations and deep dives. The deep dives combine theory, coaching, and practical workshops to ensure the new concepts are grounded in your context. In a pre-course needs assessment session, your trainer will work with you to determine which modules will add value to your team and organization. The workshop is facilitated by a highly experienced leadership trainer paired with a highly experienced consultant to provide you with the best of both worlds. We design the delivery timing and schedule to suit the needs of busy leaders.

Foundation Modules

• Impetus for Change
• What is Agile
• Team Level Agile | A Leaders Perspective
• Adaptive Governance
• Value led Organisations
• Adaptive Leadership
• Deliberately Developmental Cultures
• Managing complexity
• Strategy to execution
• Systems Thinking
• Adaptive Planning
• Patterns of scaling the change
• Metrics, Measurements, Incentives
• Agile and Risk Management
• Effective continuous improvement
• Portfolio execution
• Agile Finance

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Deep Dive Modules

• Generative conversations
• Accountability
• Change Leadership
• Decision Making
• Vision to Value
• Conflict Resolution