Agile Leadership and Strategy Training Course
Date | Format | Duration | Fees (GBP) | Register |
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24 Feb - 28 Feb, 2025 | Live Online | 5 Days | £2525 | Register → |
07 Apr - 11 Apr, 2025 | Live Online | 5 Days | £2525 | Register → |
05 May - 09 May, 2025 | Live Online | 5 Days | £2525 | Register → |
07 Jul - 09 Jul, 2025 | Live Online | 3 Days | £1725 | Register → |
04 Aug - 06 Aug, 2025 | Live Online | 3 Days | £1725 | Register → |
06 Oct - 10 Oct, 2025 | Live Online | 5 Days | £2525 | Register → |
08 Dec - 12 Dec, 2025 | Live Online | 5 Days | £2525 | Register → |
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10 Mar - 28 Mar, 2025 | Doha | 15 Days | £10400 | Register → |
23 Apr - 25 Apr, 2025 | London | 3 Days | £3725 | Register → |
23 Jun - 27 Jun, 2025 | New York | 5 Days | £4950 | Register → |
21 Jul - 01 Aug, 2025 | Amsterdam | 10 Days | £8550 | Register → |
29 Sep - 03 Oct, 2025 | Bangkok | 5 Days | £4050 | Register → |
06 Oct - 10 Oct, 2025 | London | 5 Days | £4450 | Register → |
29 Dec - 31 Dec, 2025 | Kigali | 3 Days | £3325 | Register → |
Why select this training course?
The concept of agile leadership is a buzzword in the business world. While some argue it’s a radical tactical approach, others believe it is the foundation of modern management. Some agile leaders are like superheroes that use their abilities to enhance teamwork through a shared vision. They overcome obstacles on the path to success so that individuals can also shine. Agility is a mindset as much as a process, and agility leadership helps organizations adopt positive change in response to changing market conditions and an ever-evolving workforce. Nimble organizations embrace change, experimentation, and iteration as fundamental tenets of progress. Agility leads to value creation, retention, and success.
What is the purpose of Agile leadership?
Agile leadership is an approach based on delivering value to customers through frequent and open communication, rapid experimentation, and execution based on learning. Companies must be able to move swiftly through the inevitable changes in today’s world of work. Agile means embracing uncertainty and change, so it will not only better enable your employees to do their jobs but also help you enhance your product or service offering. The main purpose of agile leadership is to bring your organization forward by providing a platform that allows employees to own the path to success. It is not about the technology or a specific tool but about the culture that each leader seeks to create within their team.
What is the role of leadership in an agile organization?
Most agile companies focus on the customer, their competitive advantage, and your career. These people will challenge the status quo and break away from the rules, but only if those rules are right for them. Agile leaders learn to become “simply another voice in the room” rather than a top dog, as sometimes you may be better at facilitating than leading. While leaders are still required, they play an important role as facilitators and advisors rather than leaders. In this process, the leader will need to be more open-minded and not take personally how things go in their team members’ departments without letting down other teams too much but also balancing their own team’s needs with budget considerations.
Thriving in the new world of business and leading agile organizations, Rcademy’s Agile Leadership and Strategy Training Course will enable you to transform your company’s culture into one willing to embrace change and adapt quickly. Hands-on learning will teach you how to manage change more effectively by creating an agile organization where you can respond quickly and flexibly to change. Our agile leadership and strategy training program will help you to master specific agile processes, tools, and methodologies. We’ll teach you what it takes to be an effective agile leader and how to create a new way of doing business.
Who should attend?
The Development program is apt for professionals in the government and private sectors:
- High-level managers/seniors
- Policymakers
- Departmental Heads/Managers
- General Managers
- Team leaders
- Project and Product managers
- Leaders
- Entrepreneurs
- Start-up founders
What are the course objectives?
The Training Course revolves around achieving the following objectives:
- To teach participants how to control, shape, and direct change
- To understand the essentials of agile leadership and related concepts
- To develop skills crucial to being an agile leader
- To encourage developing an environment that fosters creativity and open-mindedness
- To create awareness of the key aspects of an agile organization that differentiates it from others
- To develop the capability of building relationships with stakeholders at different levels
- To develop leaders who are effective, productive, and collaboratively engaged with their team
- To teach participants how to work as leaders and managers in an agile and innovative organization
- To learn the mindset, concepts, principles, and practices for creating a thriving Agile environment
How will the course be presented?
- Interactive sessions
- Use of case studies
- Management games
- Learning preparation of reports, charts, graphs
- Real-time exercises
- Problem-solving and Group discussion sessions
What are the topics covered?
Module 1: What is Agile Leadership about?
- Developing agile mindset
- Delivering value
- Problem-solving in a complex environment
- Self-organization
- Fostering Collaboration
- Leading cross-functional teams
- Servant Leadership
- Leading in the digital world
Module 2: Skills of an Agile Leader
- Develop self-awareness and accountability
- Generating engagement
- Strategic thinking
- Inspiring the team with an innovative approach
- Emotional intelligence
- Showing empathy
- Dynamic mindset
- Encouraging flexibility
Module 3: Agile Organization
- Traditional vs Agile Organisation
- Recognizing agile organization as a living organism
- Agile transformation
- Shared purpose and vision
- Customer focused
- Empowered teams
- Rapid decision making
- Continuous learning
Module 4: Developing Business Agility
- Core Competencies for business agility
- Lean-agile Leadership
- Continuous learning culture
- Delegating operations
- Business agility value chain
- Barriers to business agility
Module 5: Trending Tools
- Workflow management
- Kanban
- Feedback loops
- Data-driven continuous improvement
Module 6: Principles of Agile Leadership
- Be the change
- High-quality leadership
- Feedback consideration
- Maintaining transparency
Module 7: Types of Leadership Agility
- Stakeholder agility
- Creative agility
- Self-leadership agility
- Levels of leadership agility
Module 8: Performance Improvement
- Performance action plan
- Benefits of the performance improvement plan
- Steps to writing improvement plan
- Setting benchmark performance
- Setting objectives
- Improvement > Punishment
Module 9: Barriers to Agility
- Risk-averse company culture
- Lack of clarity
- Cross-functional teams
- Lack of support from top management
- Focused too much on stability
Module 10: Leadership and Cultural Agility
- Developing an agile culture
- Leadership commitment
- Authentic Leadership
- Team collaboration
- Cross-cultural agility
Module 11: Agile Portfolio Management
- Transparency in portfolio
- Continuous experimentation
- Agile process improvement
- Agile portfolio management cycle