Module 1: Leadership Agility

Day 1

Becoming an Agile Leader

• Changing face of Leadership in the modern world
  
  
• What is Agile? AGILE principles and Manifesto
  
  
• Developing an Agile mindset, behaviours and characteristics
  
  
• Understanding Organisational Agility
  
  
• Organisational Models in Business
  
  
• Mastering Change
  
  

Day 2

Strategic, Operational and Tactical Factors

• Defining Strategy, Operational and Tactical leadership
  
  
• Strategy models and principles
  
  
• Organisational Data collection and planning
  
  
• Challenging ‘normal’: the Alternative Box
  
  
• Setting the Behaviours and Values needed in the organisation
  
  
• Creating the Vision V Mantra: ensuring buy-in from all
  
  

Day 3

Organisational Development and Performance

• The importance of Organisational Development and Strategy
  
  
• Identifying your Talent for future growth: models and principles
  
  
• Fatigue
  
  
• Competency Frameworks and Behaviours
  
  
• Utilizing Performance Management Systems
  
  
• Development Options to increase organisational excellence
  
  
• Succession Planning and OCR techniques
  
  

Day 4

Building Strong Strategic Relationships

• Why Building relationships matters in business
  
  
• Strategic and Customer Relationship Management
  
  
• Key Stakeholder Planning
  
  
• Power and Influence mapping
  
  
• Networking: techniques to improve relations
  
  
• Using Data analysis to inform the business
  
  

Day 5

Achieving the Organisational Excellence Culture

• What is Culture?
  
  
• Creating a culture of Organisational Excellence
  
  
• Gaining support from others
  
  
• Review of Operational Excellence models and comparison
  
  
• Implement and embed Organizational Excellence in business
  
  
• Summary and Review
  
  
  

Module II: Agile Creativity

Day 6

Design Thinking and its Importance in Workplace Solutions

• Understanding Design Thinking and its Strategic Implications
  
  
• The 5 Primary Stages of Design Thinking
  
  
• The Key 10 Principles of Good Design
  
  
• Traditional Linear Problem-solving Techniques
  
  
• The Solution Focused Approached to Problem Solving
  
  
• Bigger Picture Consequences: Systems Thinking and Application
  
  

Day 7

Developing Agile Creativity and An Innovative Mind

• Defining a Problem
  
  
• How your brain solves problems?
  
  
• Creative Problem-solving Techniques
  
  
• The Power of Visualization: Dreaming the Dream
  
  
• Developing an Innovative and Creative Mindset
  
  
• Group Thinking Strategies and Control
  
  
• Change and Agile Organizational Thinking
  
  

Day 8

Human Centric Behavioural Skills for Agile Creative Design Thinking

• Human Centric Interpersonal Skills Needed in Design Thinking
  
  
• Powerful Questioning Techniques to Build Empathetic Understanding
  
  
• Structuring Empathetic Fact-finding Interviews
  
  
• Creating Powerful Problem Statements to Define the Problem
  
  
• Structured Brainstorming Solutions using SCAMPER
  
  

Day 9

Practical Applications of Design Thinking and Creative Innovations

• Empathize
  
  
• Define
  
  
• Ideate
  
  
• Prototype
  
  
• Test
  
  

Day 10

Decision Making and Organizational Implementation

• Practical vs. Ideal Solution: Factors and Considerations
  
  
• Using Rapid Decision-making Process
  
  
• Mitigating Decision-making Errors
  
  
• Changing Mindsets to Adopt Design Thinking Strategies
  
  
• Communicating the Decision – Gaining buy-in
  
  
• Next Steps