Course Description

This interactive workshop is designed to help participants to embrace the agile mindset shift and develop resilience to adopt to changing business environment. Changing our mindset is not an easy task, this workshop, will guide participants to internalize an inside-out way of experiencing the reality, by becoming self-aware of internal strength and core passion. Participants will gain deeper insight in articulating the mission and vision of their department connected to the agile leadership values. During this workshop, participants will integrate the agile mindset, and the Agile Leadership framework to inspire behavioral change and create flexible structure that is adaptable to uncertain environment, while advancing organization’s business results.

What Benefits will participants realize?

• Understand the agile mind-set and how it creates a resiliency in adapting to changes
• Enable creativity in others by shifting from certainty to discovery way of thinking.
• Reframe from outside-in way of thinking to an inside-out capability mindset.
• Foster a network of empowered team that self-discover solutions and deliver results.
• Implement the rapid cycles of thinking and doing to integrate iterative accomplishment.
• Advocate an engaged self-managed team that creates value quickly & collaboratively.
• Implement agile servant leadership that leads to respect to authority.
• Evaluate your department for the purpose of identifying where to implement agility
• Through role-playing, leverage a toolkit for applying agile leadership and personal leadership agility.
• Develop action plan to increase leadership agility within self, team and organization

Who Should Attend

This workshop is designed for managers, Leaders, or Project managers who are interested in developing leadership resilience, adapting change, and leveraging team’s capability.

Detailed workshop outline

Explore the Agile Leadership mindset

• Understand how to transition from reactive to creative mind-sets (performance, emotional or intellectual capability).
• Examine your capability and reframe any outside-in approach to an inside-out capability.
• Foster innovative team environment by shifting certainty to discovery mindset.
• Fostering collaboration in promoting a network of autonomous, self-managed teams shifting from authority to partnership mindset.
• Promote value creation and apply value stream mapping to shift from scarcity to abundance mindset.

• Practice the strategy of being vs doing to foster agile culture.

Transform team – empowerment process

• Practice the empowerment process to build a sense of responsibility, and ownership mind-set in others.
• Overcome the fear of empowering others; while guiding their performance and holding them accountable.

Transform team – Fostering creativity

• Enable creativity in others by asking questions to get people to discover problems and solutions for themselves.
• Explore the six strategies of fostering creativity within the team.
• Apply the retrospection approach to get team to collaborating on solutions.

• Foster a work environment that helps stimulate creative brainstorming in problem solving.

Transform team – resilience

• Apply the techniques for stimulating constructive conflict to enhance team resilience to challenges.
• Conduct group brainstorming processes so effectively to reach commitment

• Use the rapid-cycle model to accelerate strategic thinking and execution.
• Achieve results by deploying an iterative process of small wins as an agile team approach.
• Promote and implement information sharing strategy to improve decision-making.
• Explore the Problem-solving and solution-seeking framework (PRACTICE) to overcome rational and emotional challenges.

Promote business value

• Perform value stream analysis to increase tangible and intangible business value
• Employ an iterative process of divergence and convergence in team thinking
• Articulate and inspire enthusiasm in others for a shared vision and mission
• Analyze the impact of shifting from hierarchal to adaptive agile structure

Apply coaching strategies in leading the agile team

• Explore how to shift from dependency to interdependency relationship during coaching session.
• Explore the attribution bias by getting subordinates to understand their contribution (i.e. their 50%), in any outcome or conflict.
• Understand how Self Defense Mechanism shapes the root of our behavior, and how to manage these mechanisms in ourselves and in others to bypass resistance.
• Master strategies to give positive feedback, constructive feedback and negative feedback; while bypassing resistance and maintaining trust.

• Through questioning effective strategy and indirect suggestions, coach subordinates to uncover the right answers to which they would be committed.