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.