Leading with Agility

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The nature of leadership has changed. The longstanding top down, directive style of leadership is not successful in the current, adaptive work environment. These environments require a paradigm shift in leaders and their understanding of what constitutes effective leadership. 

This set of Learning Outcomes focuses on developing leaders who are adaptive and agile in their leadership style. This is where leaders learn to lead themselves first and create an environment that will allow agility to thrive.

Grow your leadership capacity to be more adaptable and broaden your leadership range to have more impact. 

This Leading with Agility class is valuable to anyone wishing to learn about the paradigm shifts necessary to lead in adaptive environments, and to develop relevant leadership capabilities.

This course is for you because the following leadership challenges are familiar to you:

• Understand your role in the context of Business Agility.
• Delve into team dynamics to motivate people consistently.
• Grow as a leader in your organisation, and grow your organisation continuously
• Adapt to current trends and challenges to make the right decisions.

Program Structure & Overview of 7 Sessions (17.5h)

1. Leadership and Agility in Context
2. Tapping into your Leadership Space
3. Connecting the Dots
4. Lead vs Following
5. Leading an Organisation
6. Leading a Transformation
7. Growing Your Leadership Capacity

Time Investment

• 7 x 2.5h weekly Sessions
• 1h each week for homework, reading, reflection and in depth self-development.
• Prior to the course, you will have the opportunity to do the Strengthsfinder Assessment online, which we will then use throughout the course. You’ll need about 1h for this.
• 30min Get to know each other call with your instructors; this is optional, but highly recommended.

Upon completion of this course you will have:

• An understanding that you and your leadership colleagues may have to evolve/change/learn in order to adapt to the current challenges.
• Gained an increased awareness of the leadership qualities that you have and how to leverage those qualities in a given context.
• The tools to navigate and influence change within yourself, others and the broader organisation.
• An understanding of the kinds of leadership that are more effective in agile environments.
• The ICP-LEA Certification from ICAgile

We have observed that current practices and systems tend to be rigid and unfit for purpose. We believe transformation is needed, and this course explores different approaches to take.