As today’s business environment shifts towards an increasingly progressive pace, organisations are expected to acknowledge the necessity to capitalize on constant change and take full advantage of the opportunities it merits. All organisations respond differently to the idea of change. But forward-thinking organisations embrace and use it as a unique platform for improvement.
Agility in projects execution and business operations is critical and ought to be strategically driven including marketing approaches and initiatives. In this Agile Thinking in a Changing Business World training course, delegates will have a full grasp of the core elements that will enable them to upscale their organisations’ capacity to adapt, innovate and overcome. They will learn how to think promptly and effectively in the midst of uncertainty. Allowing them and their businesses to streamline its processes and thrive in a rapidly changing and highly dynamic corporate landscape.
This training course will feature:
Agile Values & Thoughts: Develop Inner-Agility
Personal Competencies to Enhance Agility
Agile Problem Solving and Decision Making – Team & Individual
The Seed of Business Agility
Skills and Tools to Sustain 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
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
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
Course Outline
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
The certificate
Coventry Academy Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course