A Highly Interactive Training Course On

Agile Thinking in a Changing Business World

Agile Thinking in a Changing Business World
Course Schedule

CLASSROOM

17-21 Feb 2025
Dubai
$5,950
04-08 Aug 2025
London
$5,950
10-14 Nov 2025
Dubai
$5,950
Certificate
  • Coventry Academy Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course

Training Overview

Training Overview

Agile Thinking in a Changing Business World: In today’s fast-paced business environment, organizations must embrace change as a catalyst for improvement. This training course focuses on cultivating agility in project execution and business operations, driven by strategic initiatives, including marketing.

Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of the core elements that enhance their organization’s capacity to adapt, innovate, and thrive amidst uncertainty. The course will equip delegates with the skills to think quickly and effectively, streamlining processes in a dynamic corporate landscape.

Key features of the course include:

  • Agile Values & Thoughts: Cultivating inner agility.
  • Personal Competencies: Enhancing individual agility.
  • Agile Problem Solving and Decision Making: Strategies for teams and individuals.
  • The Seed of Business Agility: Foundations for sustained adaptability.
  • Skills and Tools: Essential for maintaining business agility.

What are the goals?

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the Agile mindset and its underlying principles, such as pragmatism, the power of choice and adapting to context
  • Describe principles and practices to inculcate agile thinking
  • Identify and transform current personal and organizational thinking which impedes agility   
  • Replace dysfunctional thinking habits with agile approaches by practicing agile techniques
  • Promote relevant and meaningful agile inputs into the design of corporate strategies
  • Achieve organizational goals by facilitating adoption of agile approaches in others’ thoughts and behaviours

Who is this Training Course for?

This training course is designed for those who want to consider their thinking rationale and shift towards new and agile methods.

This Coventry Academy training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Business representatives
  • Member of technical teams
  • Managers and leaders of business units
  • Delivery managers and leaders of technical departments.
  • Engineers and technical staff  

How will this Training Course be Presented?

This Coventry Academy training course will utilize a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes:

  • Instructor’s guidance and facilitation of learning, using proven techniques
  • Delegates’ direct input, case studies, and exercises
  • Short video-clips presentation and de-briefing sessions
  • Discussion and activities designed to promote skill building via interaction among participants
  • Activities and work on examples and role-plays to highlight concepts taught and allow participants to practice skills they learned from this course

Personal Impact

  • 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

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