The Course Content
Day One: Agile Values & Thoughts - Develop Inner-Agility
Values and principles for agility
Individual ‘status quo’ thinking habits that hinder agility
The connection between organisational culture and agility
Behavioural and thinking habits that constrain or foster agility
Personal mindset practices to develop inner agility
Techniques to replace old habits with new agile thinking
Day Two: Agile Transformation - Personal Competencies to Enhance Agility
Challenges and opportunities in business agility
Growth Mindset – practices and principles
Roles & functions within empowered teams
Skills for effective listening and collaborating
Personal branding and agility
Personal Agility Plan – preparation and execution in the workplace
Day Three: Problem Solving and Decision Making – Team & Individual Agility
How to inspire team/group motivation?
The Leadership & Mindset in Problem Solving
Rapid Agile Tools: Applications in ‘problem & need’ techniques
Achieving optimal leverage and critical factors in making decisions
Agile decision-making: models & techniques
Agile Decision-Making Model: Application session
Day Four: The Seed of Business Agility
Business Agility: the foundations
Complexity Theory: Application to the business environment
Agile Business: Forms & Features
The importance of achieving agility in business
Principles of Lean & Agile
Embedding value-adding performance criteria in the workplace
Day Five: Sustaining Business Agility: Skills & Tools
Business agility practice areas: Scrum, Kanban, Agile studios, etc.
Championing Organizational Change
Empathizing to build customer value
Changing paradigms
Accommodating ideation and innovation
Waste elimination: identification & elimination