Certified Active Agile Leadership

Together with other participants, in a group up to 12 you will learn concrete tools and techniques, design your own experiments and try them in your organization. You will have a chance to reflect it with your peers and discuss with them how to bring these topics into your organization. We offer also additional 1-1 coaching with one of the trainer to support you individually on that journey.

Who is the program for?
Leaders at all levels. This course aims to build everyday essential skills to lead people in organizations on their way to agility.

Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of agile principles and frameworks as Scrum/Kanban/LeanTogether with other participants, in a group up to 12 you will learn concrete tools and techniques, design your own experiments and try them in your organization. You will have a chance to reflect it with your peers and discuss with them how to bring these topics into your organization. We offer also additional 1-1 coaching with one of the trainer to support you individually on that journey.

Program Overview

• Lead through others - Expect to lead people who have more detailed knowledge than you, who are strong headed in an environment which rapidly changes.

• Time is the most expensive currency - Fast decision cycles are essential to stay ahead of the curve,

• A leader should be skilled to lead in multiple scenarios - This includes leading change, building the environment/system that delivers results, leader as a coach and leading by example through self-leadership.

Program Setup

A group of 5 to 12 people follow the program with our trainers as one unit during 9 half days session between January and May 2023. The intent is that each participant peer-coach each other during the training time and we encourage to continue doing so also after the program. The group self-selects and commits to driving changes (improvements) during the program. This training is run remotely via Zoom in English. While taking this course you commit to reserve 9 half days for this training. Minimum attendance is 7 out of 9 sessions.

All training courses have been field tested and reviewed to ensure that they adhere to a certain set of standards:

✔︎ They are scientific/evidence based

✔︎ They are applicable

✔︎ They value the participant’s time

Active Agile Leader Certification

After this program you are entitled to get the Active Agile Leader Certification . For that three conditions need to be fulfilled:

✔︎ You attended minimum of 7 out of 9 sessions of the program

✔︎ You validate your knowledge of the skills (you take a test, link for the online test will be sent after the last session)

✔︎ You make things happen – you have practiced and improved something in your company during the training period (this is validated by the trainer).

Certified AAL Trainers for this course

Modules of this program

1. Leadership Roles and Situations

• Leading change

• Building the environment/system that delivers results

• Coaching leadership

• Self-leadership

2. Building high performance teams

• Recognizing a high performance team

• A leader’s role in creating the conditions where high performance teams come about

• How to act as leader through the different phases of a team’s journey

3. Facilitating groups to make decisions

• How to facilitate a group of strong headed people to explore relevant options and to make decisions which they hold each other accountable for

4. Flow and Systems thinking

• Resource vs Flow optimization

• Lean & Agile principles

• A3 problem solving

• How to improve flow

• Resolving bottlenecks

5. Training effectively

• How to train effectively

6. Decision making under uncertainty

• How to keep up the decision pace during high uncertainty

• Avoiding the two traps: waiting for perfect information (too slow) or relying on gut-based decision.

• How our brain makes decisions

• The influences of biases

• Techniques to improve decision making in different scenarios

• Finding hidden opportunities

7. Communicating effectively

• Keys to effective communication

• Brief/brief back pattern

• How-to give and receive feedback

8. Applied Learnings & Certification

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