Overview
Agile Leaders exhibit flexibility and proficiency in leading across diverse cultures, generations, and geographical locations. They concentrate on cultivating self-organizing, self-managing teams, articulating a clear vision, and providing unwavering support to enable the team to achieve remarkable results. This program delves into the necessary mindset shifts for effective Agile Leadership, exploring ways to influence organizational culture and nurture teams on their journey toward becoming high-performing teams. It also delves into strategies for active engagement with your team and offers support in navigating our ever-changing environment.
The Certified Agile Leader 1 (CAL 1) covers 4 key elements:
- The Case for Agile Leadership
- Agile Leadership in Action
- Leading Agile Teams
- Leading Agile Organizations
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$1295 (USD)
Standard Delivery: 16 hours of instruction over 2 days
Group (3+): $1195 USD
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Full Course Details
Part 1: The Case for Agile Leadership
- Define agile leadership.
- Discuss the key differentiators between an agile leadership approach and general leadership approach.
- Explain challenges that traditional management approaches face in today's world of work.
- Describe the benefits of becoming a more effective leader for teams and organizations.
- Describe key mindset shifts required for effective leadership in complex and uncertain conditions.
Part 2: Agile Leadership in Action
- Define a leadership framework and/or model.
- Identify key characteristics of leadership frameworks that support successful leadership development and growth.
- Examine the benefits and challenges of having a structured leadership development framework.
- Demonstrate at least one way to inspect and adapt your own leadership behavior based on a leadership framework and/or model to increase effectiveness.
- Identify at least 5 leadership skills that help agile leaders be successful.
- Practice at least 2 leadership skills that can help grow competency in others.
- Practice at least 2 leadership skills that can help you grow as an agile leader.
Part 3: Leading Agile Teams
- Describe the key characteristics and benefits of a high-performing team.
- Describe tools and techniques that leaders can use to help teams become and maintain being a high-performance team.
- Describe tools and techniques that teams can use to become and maintain being a high-performance team.
- Discuss common challenges and barriers to becoming a high-performing team and how a leader can help the team overcome those challenges.
- Illustrate how to enable teams to work with other teams collaboratively and cross functionally to create value for customers and the organization.
Part 4: Leading Agile Organizations
- Identify ways the culture of an organization can impact the effectiveness of teams and overall organizational agility.
- Discuss the relationship between culture and leadership mindset, behaviors, and skills.
- Identify techniques that help to explore, understand, and influence the culture within the organization.
- Explain the impact of an organization's structures, processes, and policies on the organization’s ability to create value aligned with the organization's purpose.
- Recognize ways to change existing organizational structures, processes, and policies to improve the organization’s ability to create value aligned with the organization's purpose.
- Describe how organizational change impacts people and the benefits of involving them in the change process.
- Explore one approach to support leadership in guiding the organization's change journey.
- Organizational Decision Makers & Change Leaders.
- Executives.
- Managers.
- Agile Team Members/Aspiring Agilists.
- Coaches/Consultants
- Understand the fundamental principles and characteristics that define agile leadership.
- Articulate the positive impacts of effective leadership on both teams and organizations.
- Explore how enhanced leadership skills contribute to improved team performance, organizational success, and overall employee satisfaction.
- Identify and understand the essential shifts in mindset required for effective leadership in complex and uncertain conditions.
- Explore the leadership skills that contribute to the success of Agile Leaders.
- Understand tools and techniques to support their high-performing teams.
- Explore how to enable teams to work collaboratively and cross-functionally to create value for customers and the organization.
- Investigate ways in which the culture of an organization can impact the effectiveness of teams and overall organizational agility.
- Identify techniques that help explore, understand, and influence the culture within the organization.
- Recognize ways to change existing organizational structures, processes, and policies to improve the organization’s ability to create value aligned with its purpose
Participants requesting a cancellation or schedule change 5 business days or more prior to the start date of their virtual class will not be subject to a change fee. Requests made by participants within the 5-day window will be subject to a $200 change fee. Those who do not attend class, without prior written notice, will forfeit their tuition – no refund will be permitted.