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Giving leaders the Agile advantage

Our Leading with Agility programme will equip your leaders to become the Agile Leaders your organisation needs.

Programme description

In brief

Our Leading with Agility leadership development programme is an experiential learning experience which develops your leaders into Agile Leaders. Our curriculum is made up of 6 core modules that give participants the fundamentals to become effective Agile Leaders in their organisation.

Delivered either in person or remotely by our team of experienced facilitators, we’re constantly evolving and adapting the curriculum to ensure it meets the needs of organisations today.

Our support includes a dedicated coaching provision alongside access to resources and tools both during and after the programme.

Who’s it for?

Our 3 month programme is designed for participants at all levels of your organisation. From first time managers to middle managers to senior execs, with an emphasis on embedding Agility in your leadership we’re confident any leader will benefit.

Learning outcomes

By the end of our programme, participants will:

  • Recognise what it takes to build and lead a high-performing team.
  • Employ a range of coaching and feedback techniques to increase trust and resilience in your teams.
  • Demonstrate the power of collaborative decision making methods in order to create a more inclusive working environment.
  • Show how decisions can be safely and incrementally delegated in order to improve team decision making and productivity.
  • Illustrate the importance of creating a continuous improvement culture that will reduce blame and increase accountability.
  • Recognise the importance of teams applying key Agile practices such as testing and learning, in order to solve business problems.
  • Apply a range of facilitation techniques that will help you and your teams manage difficult conversations.

Course details

Our programme is designed for cohorts of between 15-20 participants. While not necessary, it can be advantageous for participants to come from the same area of the organisation (e.g. a department or function).

To kick-off, each participant will be invited to complete a 360 assessment using the Leadership CircleTM profile. This will provide each participant with a baseline understanding of their leadership styles and attributes. Participants will also have access to 1-2-1 coaching sessions where dedicated time can be spent supporting leaders with their leadership and career goals.

Classes are then delivered fortnightly giving time for 1-2-1 coaching sessions to be scheduled during alternate weeks.

As well as customising the module content, we’re more than happy to  personalise the programme in order to suit the needs of your organisation. Options can include group leadership coaching, curated masterclass content and more.

The curriculum

Leadership Circle 360 Assessment

Participants will kick-off the programme with a 360 assessment. A first step to raising the self-awareness of any participant. This includes an individual briefing for each participant to discuss the results. Check out our coaching approach and The Leadership Circle to learn more.

Know yourself as a leader

Participants will learn why Agility is critical to leadership. Learnings include,

  • Introduction to the Agile Leadership model.
  • Following on from The Leadership Circle assessments explore the difference of both Creative and Reactive leadership styles and its impact on leaders behaviours.
  • Appraise and consider various tools and models that encourage greater self-reflection and introspection.

Building a high-performing team

Participants will explore the conditions for team success. Learnings include:

  • Identify differences between implicit vs explicit motivation and their impact on reward mechanisms.
  • Demonstrate the use of Team Canvases to help align and set team expectations around purpose and behaviours.
  • Analyse various collaborative decision making approaches and how they can improve team autonomy.

Agile practices to accelerate your business outcomes

Participants will learn how to solve complex business problems. Learnings include:

  • Appraise various Agile principles and values and how a team based approach to problems.
  • Recognise how testing and learning methods can safely test assumptions.
  • Experience how an iterative delivery method works and how it can be used to solve complex problems.

Growing people with feedback and coaching

Participants will learn how to effectively communicate using coaching based techniques. Learnings include:

  • Identify the benefits to adopting a ‘manager as coach’ role
  • Employ coaching based techniques such as powerful questions to unlock team performance.
  • Learn what healthy team conflict looks like and how to spot and avoid team dysfunctions.

Continuous improvement as a culture

Participants will learn how Agile Leadership creates a culture of high performance. Learnings include:

  • The importance of inspecting and adapting and how this can create the right leadership culture for your organisation.
  • Practise a range of tools such as Agile Retrospective techniques that promote a continuous improvement culture.
  • Discover how Lean management techniques can help reduce waste and support a continuous improvement culture

Effectiveness through facilitation

An opportunity to expand the repertoire of participants. Learnings include:

  • Recognise the importance of being inclusive in decision making.
  • Experience techniques that make ideation, brainstorming, and solutionising far easier through the “leader as facilitator” role.
  • Practise using these techniques as part of a simulated activity.

Fancy a taste?

We understand the challenge of selecting the right programme for your organisation. To help you feel confident about your decision, we’re happy to offer a taster opportunity that provides a glimpse into our flagship development programme.

A unique training experience

All of our training is remote-first and modularised, making the learning as accessible and comfortable as possible.

We never use PowerPoint, instead leveraging adult-learning techniques to ensure the experience is as hands-on as possible. With a range of games, activities, and discussion groups all bringing the learning to life, we’re sure to make it a memorable experience.

Here to help

Diverse and highly skilled. Our team of leadership coaches, trainers and facilitators are not only experienced Agile practitioners but have worked with a wide range of organisations in helping transform towards Agile Leadership.

Meet our team