Agile Leadership and Strategy

In today's rapidly shifting and uncertain business environment, organizations that cultivate agility and resilience have substantially better opportunities to survive difficult periods and thrive in competitive markets. This transformative course provides you with a strategic roadmap to recognize and seize emerging business opportunities while developing the capacity to bounce back stronger and more resilient from unexpected challenges and disruptions.

Let's build agility and resilience into your leadership capabilities and integrate these qualities into your organization's core DNA. Develop the ability to shift mindset rapidly and inspire meaningful behavior change throughout your organization. Additionally, you will learn proven strategies to create more flexible structures and business processes that continuously expand your organization's overall capability and performance capacity.

What You Will Cover:

• Why agility and resilience serve as your organization's superpower in competitive environments
• What agile and resilient organizations do differently that sets them apart from competitors
• Assessing your organization's current state to identify where you should implement agility practices
• Building agility and strategic capability using the SEAL model: Scan the environment, Experiment with solutions, Adapt your approach, and Learn from results
• Scanning both macro and market environments for emerging trends and patterns
• Experimenting with potential pitfalls using interactive simulations
• Reframing organizational change to effectively motivate and inspire your people
• Adapting processes and organizational structures through innovative business models
• Leveraging comprehensive toolkits for leading and managing change initiatives
• Practicing agility principles with an interactive real-world case study
• Adapting your individual leadership style to enhance your personal agility and resilience
• Using your personal assessment results to strengthen agility in yourself, your team, and your organization
• Developing a personalized game plan to increase agility and resilience capability at all levels

Outline

Learning Objectives

• Examine the Practices That Distinguish the Most Agile and Resilient Organizations
• Develop a Capacity for Foresight and Anticipating Coming Changes
• Obtain Practical Tools for Exploring Market Opportunities
• Build and Communicate a Plan for Change
• Lead and Motivate Others Toward Agile and Resilient Mindset and Behavior
• Further Develop Your Personal Agility and Resilience Capabilities

Introduction

• Identify What Agility and Resilience Mean in Modern Business
• Explore the Defining Characteristics of Agile and Resilient Organizations
• Identify Characteristics You Want to Develop in Your Organization

Agile, Resilient Organizations

• Identify and Recognize the Characteristics of Agile and Resilient Organizations
• Understand How Large Organizations Successfully Maintain Agility
• Understand How Agility Creates Overall Organizational Resilience
• Assess Your Organization's Current Level of Agility

What Agile, Resilient Organizations Do

• Scan and Monitor the Business Environment
• Experiment with Solutions on a Small Scale
• Adapt the Organization to Changing Conditions
• Learn and Grow From Experience

Agility Practice

• Practice Change Leadership to Help Your Organization Become More Agile
• Understand and Navigate Organizational Disruption

Who Should Attend:

Vice presidents, executive directors, directors, senior managers, division managers, and others in strategic leadership roles. Table groups are encouraged and welcome to attend together for maximum organizational benefit.