AGILE THINKING IN A CHANGING BUSINESS WORLD

TRAINING OVERVIEW

Amidst today's swiftly evolving business realm, it's crucial for organizations to acknowledge the necessity of embracing ongoing change and exploiting its potential opportunities. Each organization reacts uniquely to the notion of change, yet forward-thinking entities view it as a catalyst for advancement. Strategic agility in project execution and business operations, including marketing strategies, holds paramount importance. In the training course “AGILE THINKING IN A CHANGING BUSINESS WORLD” participants will develop a thorough understanding of the essential components needed to augment their organization's capacity to adapt, innovate, and excel. They will acquire the skills to think swiftly and effectively amidst uncertainty, empowering both themselves and their businesses to streamline processes and flourish within a perpetually evolving corporate environment.

TRAINING TOPICS

• 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

By the end of this training course, delegates 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

TRAINING IS TAILORED TO

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

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

Training methodology involves the systematic approach used to design, deliver, and evaluate training programs effectively. It encompasses various techniques, strategies, and tools aimed at facilitating learning and skill development among participants. A successful training methodology typically begins with a thorough needs' assessment to identify learning objectives and participant requirements. This is followed by the design phase, where instructional materials, activities, and delivery methods are carefully planned to align with the learning objectives and preferences of the target audience. During the delivery phase, trainers employ diverse instructional techniques such as lectures, discussions, case studies, simulations, and hands-on activities to engage participants and reinforce learning. Continuous assessment and feedback mechanisms are integrated throughout the training to monitor progress, address challenges, and adjust the approach as needed. Finally, post-training evaluation and follow-up activities are conducted to measure the effectiveness of the training and ensure that learning outcomes are achieved and sustained over time.

DAY ONE:

AGILE VALUES & THOUGHTS - DEVELOP INNER-AGILITY

• Values and principles for agility
• Individual ‘status quo’ thinking habits that hinder agility
• The connection between organizational 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