What Leading with Agility is About
In today's rapidly changing business landscape, traditional leadership models are no longer enough. This course equips leaders with the essential skills to foster innovation, collaboration, and adaptability in their organizations.
You will gain deep insights into your authentic leadership style while developing the flexibility to address diverse situations effectively. Through practical frameworks and experiential learning, you'll enhance your self-awareness, learn to manage defensiveness, and master the art of agile conversations to guide teams through complex transformations. The program is designed to help you create and sustain a psychologically safe culture of continuous learning—essential for keeping your organization relevant and resilient.
Who Will Benefit
Senior managers leading organizational transformations.
Aspiring agile leaders looking to expand their leadership range and effectiveness.
Change agents, HR professionals, and managers responsible for cultivating agile cultures and leading chnages.
Agile Coaches, Delivery Leads, Scrum Masters, and Tech Leads seeking to enhance their interpersonal and systemic leadership skills.
Any leader seeking to improve their personal and interpersonal agility to resolve conflicts constructively and build high-trust, collaborative relationships.
Our Learning Journey: A 4-Lab Deep Dive
This program is not a lecture. It is a 16-hour "living lab" composed of four highly interactive workshops. You will work on your actual challenges in a safe, confidential environment, learning from your peers and through direct experience.
Lab I: Foundations of Leadership Agility: This lab redefines leadership and introduces organizational agility. We will contrast how a traditional manager thinks, acts, and develops versus an agile leader. Finally, we will explore the core Leadership Agility Framework and use it to self-assess our current leadership behaviors to identify areas for improvement.
Lab II: The Human System, Collaboration, Conflict, and Openness: This lab shifts our focus from self-assessment to interpersonal dynamics. You will map your key stakeholder relationships, explore the concepts of "Truth" and "Openness" as the practical basis for collaboration, and analyze your personal conflict patterns to understand and manage your defensive reactions.
Lab III: Accountability & Collaborative Problem-Solving: This lab builds on our self-awareness by introducing self-accountability and the power of choice. You will learn the critical mindset shift from "victim" to "accountable" leader. We will then equip you with a powerful 5-step, "Green Zone" method for Interest-Based Problem-Solving to collaboratively resolve conflict and find durable, win-win solutions.
Lab IV: Leading Change & Your Personal Path: This final lab integrates all our learning. We will explore practical ways to navigate the complexity of change in human systems. Using storytelling and case studies, you will learn to understand change dynamics and influence them effectively. Finally, you will synthesize your entire journey by creating a Personal Leadership Canvas to guide your continuous development as a leader.Core Learning Outcomes
Upon completing this program, you will be able to:
Understand Your Leadership Style: Clearly identify your personal leadership style and its impact on others.
Build Collaborative Relationships: Use enhanced self-awareness to manage defensiveness, stay non-defensive, and build high-trust environments.
Navigate Conflict Effectively: Master proven collaborative tools to navigate complex challenges, resistance, and conflict.
Lead Sustainable Change: Effectively lead and influence sustainable organizational change by applying agile and human-centric principles.
Create Your Personal Path: Synthesize your learning into a Personal Leadership Canvas to guide your ongoing development journey.
What to Expect
Experiential Learning: Focus on real-world application through a mix of individual reflection, pair work, and facilitated group dialogue.
Rich Peer Learning: You will work with your actual challenges and gain invaluable feedback and insights from your colleagues.
A Safe Space: A confidential environment designed for you to explore new ideas, practice new behaviors, and be open with your personal thoughts and challenges.
Flexible Tools: We will use digital tools like Miro for group collaboration, but we encourage you to use traditional pen and paper for your personal notes—many find this even more effective for deep reflection.
Tailored & Dynamic Learning
Our Labs are designed with flexibility in mind. Whether you're seeking training for an individual, a team, or an entire organization, our trainers can adapt the content to meet your specific requirements. This bespoke approach ensures that the workshop is relevant, impactful, and aligned with your unique challenges and goals.
The program requires minimum 16 hours of active participation and emphasizes hands-on learning to ensure practical application of concepts in real-world scenarios.
Certify Your Leadership Growth
Participants will receive the the Leading With Agility Certification by ICAgile