Duration
2 days
Learning Objectives
- Why and what agile leadership is need in VUCA world
- Personal agility and relationship agility in leadership
- Personal and Professional Mastery to be an agile leadership
- Business and enterprise agility in leadership
- Building high performing teams
- Uncovering your personal mental models
- Your values, and applying them as a leader
Target Audience
This certification was specifically designed for leaders where one or more of the following criteria apply:
- Leaders or aspiring leaders at any level in an organization
- People at any level who lead or aspire to lead in an organization on a business agility journey
- Leaders who see the value of growing an agile organization and are committed to developing themselves as agile leaders to achieve that aim
Detailed Topics for Agile Leadership
Why Agile Leadership: The impact of prominent trends and the VUCA world and the drawbacks of the waterfall method for developing new products. Problems with how we still manage and lead and a better way. We shall discuss theories X and Y's view of leadership.
Types of leadership: Let's have a walkthrough of Leadership history and how it has developed until today, starting with authoritative to collaborative leadership styles.
What is Agile Leadership? Examples of frameworks and cases. Nine leadership principles and the gardener metaphor. How can performance be supported with alternative ways of working while working in Agile? Leadership Maturity exercise.
Knowing and leading yourself: Emotional intelligence, mental models, and mindful leadership. The organization as a social construct and interpersonal mush vs. interpersonal clarity. How we are biased: 4 examples of biases that we all hold and the antidote. The four selves of a leader with a self-assessment.
Conflict resolution: Basic conflict theory and finding the right balance between harmony and creative conflict in a team or organization.
Effective Communication: How do we make sure that what we communicate get the intended result and that we are clear on how to share the right stuff to make sense for people, regardless of cognitive differences?
Boundary Spanning: working cross-functionally and spanning boundaries of different kinds, inside and outside the organization and between topics, areas, and diverse people. Buddy System exercise.
Certification
This training is certified by International Consortium for Agile (ICAgile), a certification and accreditation body. Upon completing the course and submission and approval of your course assignment, you will receive (knowledge) certification in ICP- Leading with Agility (ICP-LEA).
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.