[English] Agility in Leadership

 

15 Online Intensive and Interactive Sessions
(2-3 hours on Monday to Friday except for ICP-PDV 3.5 to 4 hours)

 

About The Course

Organizations in an ever-changing world require different types of leadership to thrive in today’s complex, adaptive environments.

The Agility in Leadership Track is a transformational learning journey for business agility leaders and emerging leaders. To lead others, you first need to understand yourself, your biases, your behaviors, and how to interact with others. It begins with leading yourselves and expands to empowering the organization around you.

An Agile People leader inspires and collaborates with a community of like-minded individuals who aim to improve business agility and support organizations in their transformation and learning journey. They help people develop an agile mindset and work towards achieving this common goal.

The program provides a requisite understanding of building a human-centric organization, why emotional intelligence is needed, the nature of agile leadership, and how to cultivate a learning culture. Organizations that can learn faster than their completion are most likely to take the lead and be high-performing companies.

The Agile People Leader is an alternative career for traditional managers and HR professionals. During this training, you will learn how to coach people to find a place to be the best and create conditions for people to perform together.

Please read article about the Agile People Leader here.

Feedback from Participants in our previous Courses:

Eleonora made the session very interactive and made concepts that seemed difficult easy to understand and applicable. I appreciate Eleonora for making sure no one was left behind in the group discussions.

• The course was incredibly useful, inspiring, and the trainer was extremely dedicated, patient and supportive.
• Professional and Knowledgeable trainer with amazing understanding approach if you need more clarifications around the topic.
• I enjoyed all the sessions; they were very useful for my work, and I got to learn and reinforce my knowledge.
• Eleonora has brilliant way of teaching the material and explaining the difficult concepts with examples and her long experience. Thank you very much!
• It was amazing how easily Eleonora connected the most twisted concepts with real-life examples making it so much more interesting to study.
• Inspiring teacher!
• It was fun and gave a lot of insight of yourself and your own organisation.

Target Audience

The program is for leaders, aspiring leaders, and other professionals interested in growing themselves and creating an environment for others to grow and thrive.

The program is also relevant for coaches and consultants supporting agile journeys and organizational change.

Professional Certifications

This training can lead to Professional Certifications in Business Agility Foundations (ICP-BAF), Leading with Agility (ICP-LEA), and People Development (ICP-PDV).

All courses can be taken individually, however for the greatest benefit we recommend this or any other combination of courses that we offer. Please get in touch for more details, @ [email protected]

 

Training Schedule

You will participate in 15 Intensive online 2-3 hour sessions 15 days for this training. If you miss a session, you can take it back in the next course round that starts later in 2023. Please note PDV is 3.5 TO 4 hours per session.

The certification fee for each ICP (e.g. ICP-BAF, ICP-LEA,ICP-PDV etc) course is NOT included in the course fee. To get an ICAgile certification, you need to complete the certification tasks, get it approved and after that you can buy the certificate from us.

 

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Program Content

Session B1-5 Business Agility Foundations

Session B1: The Need for Business Agility

In today’s Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity (VUCA) environment, business agility is more and more critical for success. New values and principles and self-organizing teams with the right mix of cognitively diverse people close to the customer experience and empowered to make decisions are the new competitive edge.

Session B2: Emergent Strategy and Value Creation

Aligning teams around a vital purpose and generating a vision is essential to providing inspiration and creating high performance. In addition, it’s imperative to empathize with customers to maximize customer value and make it visible to focus on value creation.

Session B3: Framework, Tools and Techniques

Agile is about adapting to change. You adapt to the customers’ changing needs and work according to priorities to deliver the most significant value for the customer first. Using a Lean StartUp approach, you can test your hypothesis with a Minimum Viable Product. Using Scrum, Kanban, Value Stream Mapping in the whole company is not different from using it for Software development. What are examples, and how can you design your processes using the agile ways of working?

Session B4: New Ways of thinking and Behaving

The ability to recognize and understand complex adaptive system dynamics accelerates the path towards Business Agility. It is not only our organization’s dynamics that we should understand and manage with “Polarity Management” and “Cynefin Decision Making Model”; but also our thinking & behaving patterns by the concept of the “Ladder of Inference.”

Session B5: Business Agility as the New Normal

In today’s fast-moving and complex environments, we need to be more responsive and adaptable to navigate the complexity. To do that, we need to:

• Understand how to make sense of business challenges when things keep changing
• Be able to make decisions and act when we don’t have all the information we feel we need
• Create the conditions to allow the right culture to grow for everyone to perform at their best. In this session, we will recap the impact on business.

Session L1-5 Agile People Leadership

Session L1 – The Why & What of Leading with Agility

In this session, we will explore the changing environment & dynamics that call for a different leading and following approach. Next, we look into the misalignment between what managers think drives their people and what people – knowledge workers – expect from managing and leading them. Finally, we explore our understanding and expectations. What attitudes, expectations, and concrete behaviours do we hope to see from people who lead with agility?

Session L2 – Behaviors that Enable Agility

When you wish to make a radical change or transformation, understanding three things enables you to shift. First, where are we coming from, where are we now, and where are we heading. This session explores the evolution of leadership theories and which leadership styles and approaches they have given birth to. Second, we determine what is still relevant. And what needs to change. A big part of that shift comes from understanding the nature of Power & Influence and how we gain power might be changing. Finally, we look into specific qualities & competencies we can cultivate and develop to increase our agility.

Session L3 – Knowing & Connecting with Yourself

Leading others starts with developing our own self-leadership. If we cannot understand and embrace ourselves, we have little hope for fully understanding and accepting others. Understanding why we react to things in specific ways gives us the insights and ability to choose our responses better and change how we show up in our interactions. Leading others starts with developing our self-leadership.In this session, we explore ways to map and become more aware of our own experiences. Next, we dive into heuristics – cognitive biases – to understand how they work and influence our thinking, how we can become more aware of them, and most importantly, how we can counter them.
Finally, we explore specific leadership mind-traps and how we can unlock those mind-traps to show up in better ways as leaders.

Session L4 – Developing & Leading Ourselves

Having gained some insights into how we can know and connect with ourselves to choose how we respond to situations and show up in our interactions with others, it’s now time to put that into practice. We familiarise ourselves with the Clear Leadership model developed by Gervase Bushe and develop the four selves of the Leader.. the Aware Self, the Descriptive Self, the Curious Self, and the Appreciative Self.
We explore several different contexts where we can put these into practice to better check in with people, give and receive effective feedback, step into coaching leadership, and defuse conflicts through creating inter-personal clarity.

Session L5 – Skillful Communication

Communicating effectively, relating to others, creating and maintaining healthy interactions, having productive conversations, and ultimately influencing others requires practice and effective

communication dynamics. In this session, we work on the dynamics of effective communication through the lenses of several mental models, the dynamics of productive conversations, and the power of compelling storytelling to move and influence others. We explore three types of stories we can learn to identify and narrative patterns that help you tell compelling stories as a leader.

Session D1-D10 Agile People Development

Session D1: Introduction to Agile People Principles and the Online Training setup

The foundation of Agile Peoples’ mindset is about the principles, values, methods, and tools that we need to start using to release competence and innovation – and what we stop doing. This session is an introduction to each other and how we run the training.

Session D2: Types of Learning and the Effect on the Culture

Individual agility influences organizational agility. Here, we describe ways to increase engagement within organizations. Assessing the culture, we recommend how to create a continuous learning culture. What are the factors that would promote vs. detract from this kind of culture?

Session D3: Being a Role Model for Continuous Development

Evaluation of your attitudes towards learning and the importance of self-development and the development of others within the organization. Unlearning existing knowledge and beliefs becomes essential to create opportunities for new learning to happen. The insight that learning is an organizational competency, tied to certain people’s behaviors – how can we avoid the wrong behaviors and amplify those that support a learning culture?

Session D4: Delegating Outcomes and Hiring to Elevate

When we focus more on delegating outcomes than delegating tasks that impact learning and development in the organization, how can we trust, and what delegation techniques are there? How do we limit the way we empower responsibility and decision-making? Contrast hiring to elevate vs. hiring to delegate and provide examples of where hiring to advance has been done.

Session D5: Early Focus on Motivation and Brain-Based Learning

Learning in your way starts early in the onboarding process when joining a new team. Your motivational factors will decide within what areas and how you would like to develop yourself. The SCARF model helps you understand how your brain works and what learning techniques work with your brain, not against it. What is the difference between you and other team members, and how can you overcome these to work well together?

Session D6: Developing your own Learning Journey

Explaining here how to co-create development plans and how to encourage individual ownership of development. What tools can be used in self-evaluation with individuals and teams in your organization to identify strengths, passions, and interests? How to link personal development plans to align with organizational needs and what happens when personal and company goals do not align?

Session D7: Everybody needs to be a Leader and find their Unique Style

Leadership at every level is necessary and valuable in an agile organization. Self-leadership becomes a must for every employee, and for most people, it’s also about helping to lead others. Finding your own leadership style is essential – you need to be authentic. Here, we also learn how to approach difficult conversations that challenge behavior without undermining the dignity of the individual.

Session D8: Self-organizing for Collective Outcomes in a Suitable Environment enables Team Accountability

We learn here why self-organizing can make the team move quicker through team development stages and what leadership skills are required to speed up the process and shape the environment. In addition, different physical environments impact a team’s collaboration and learning towards a shared, collective purpose when moving through team development stages.

Session D9: Providing Effective Feedback and setting up the Team to Succeed in the Larger System

We look at how to encourage open, multi-directional, and timely feedback within teams and how teams can relate and be visible in the larger organization. What impact could organizational conditions, such as imperative structures have on the team and the relationships between team members? What scenarios are there and when should we intervene.

Session D10: Diversity, psychological safety, and conflicts in teams

There are many benefits of diverse teams over homogenous teams, and if there is psychological safety, cognitive diversity can maximize collaboration conditions. We examine how working together can create more value when we have a trusting, safe team environment. What leadership qualities become essential here, and how can leaders contribute to creating a climate of healthy conflict?

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FAQ

Do I need any pre-competence?

You don’t need any pre-competence to attend the online course. We are tailoring the approach for the participants and your level. As a bonus, you will learn to use modern digital tools, like digital Canvases, Video meeting platforms, Kanban boards, etc.

How does the process look for this training?

We will use virtual online tools to communicate, learn and interact. You will need a good internet connection and an undisturbed workplace where you can have a quiet background. We will work in break-out sessions in Zoom and use our community platform for communication between the instructor-led sessions. We will go through all practicalities during the first session.

Are the sessions scheduled on specific days at specific times?

Yes, the sessions take place according to a schedule for the year that has been predetermined. If you miss a session, you can always take it back at a later session.

After training completion, what is the process to become ICAgile Certified?

The certification process requires finalizing the certification assignment and answering several questions after each session. When the work is completed (approved with feedback from us), you can buy your ICAgile certificate in  Agile People shop. Please note that your ICAgile for your completed assignment is NOT included in the course fee. In addition, we will make your certificate download available from ICAgile. The Agile People Participation Certificates are included in the training price after finalizing the course, and you can download the Agile People Participation Certificate after the course via the Agile people website.

Online Delivery

We are working with Zoom for interactive discussions and team exercises, Mural as the digital canvas, and our community platform for communication between the sessions. In addition, you will get access to Agile People Campus (our Learning Management System on agilepeople.com) which contains an overview and detailed information about videos, articles, documents, and case stories for all sessions, including links to all the tools used in training. You will also get access to our three books in digital format.

There will be some work after every session, so add about 3 hours more every week. We will distribute course literature and material digitally. You will accomplish the certification assignment between the sessions to be ready on the last session’s day.

Course Discounts

Group Discount

• Enrol 2 to 4 participants for the same scheduled courses and receive a discount of 5% per person on existing course prices.
• Enrol 5+ participants for the same scheduled courses and receive a discount of 10% per person on existing course prices.
• For larger groups or to arrange private group training please contact us at [email protected] to arrange an additional quote and proposal for your organisation.

Open Classroom Training

• Open classroom training is offered in a number of countries depending on interest.
• Enrol 5 to 8 participants for the same scheduled courses and receive a discount of 5% per person on existing course prices.
• Enrol 9+ participants for the same scheduled courses and receive a discount of 10% per person on existing course prices.

Private Group Training

We provide private group training both online and on-site. Please contact us at [email protected] to arrange an additional quote and proposal for your organisation.

Events cancellation policy

If you should have to cancel your registration, notification in writing should be sent to [email protected]. Please make sure you state the name of the conference/event in the subject line of your email.

• We will refund 85% for cancellations received 60 days before the start of the event.
• We will refund 50% for cancellations received between 59 days before 31 days to the event’s start.
• We will refund 25% for cancellations received between 30 days before 15 days to the event’s start.
• We will issue no refund for cancellations received within 15 days of the event.
• You are allowed to send a colleague in your place.

Invoices are payable on 15 days Net, and must in any case be paid before the course starts!