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Duration:
10 Days
Introduction to the course
The Agile Leadership training course offered by KC Academy is a transformative training course designed to harness the potential of agile principles to guide leaders towards achieving organizational excellence. This training course is vital in a world of rapid changes and unpredictability. With a focus on agile leadership, the training course is committed to nurturing adaptable, responsive, and influential leaders who can navigate the complexities of today's fast-paced world. By participating in this Leadership Agility training course, leaders will learn to exemplify and instigate a culture of superior performance that strives to meet objectives and exceeds them, ensuring robust business relationships and continual improvement across all facets of the organization.
The Agile Leadership training course provides a thorough understanding of the strategies and techniques necessary for thriving in an age where change is the only constant. By instilling an agile mindset and leadership skills, individuals are better equipped to drive positive transformation and advance their organization's objectives. Participants will delve into the essential elements that constitute organizational excellence, learning how to apply these principles to real-world scenarios to foster an environment of continuous improvement and high performance.
Attendees of this KC Academy Agile Leadership course will be able to enhance their capacity as agile leaders, gaining competencies in key areas such as effective communication, relationship-building, and cultivating an organizational excellence mindset. The knowledge and skills acquired through this training course are critical in influencing others, spearheading change, and fortifying internal connections, all of which contribute to a culture that champions excellence. With these competencies, leaders are prepared to face current and future challenges, enabling their organizations to flourish.
Daily Agenda
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
- 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 2: 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
Frequently Asked Questions
There are no prerequisites. Our courses are open to students of all backgrounds who are 18 years of age and older. All courses are conducted in English. Video lectures include English subtitles and the option to slow-down, pause, or replay lectures for better retention. Discussion boards are a critical component of each of our courses; therefore, we suggest students have a conversational knowledge of English when pursuing a Certificate of Completion. For any of the art writing courses, students need to be 100% proficient in written English.
You should have an up-to-date web browser such as: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Internet Explorer. For more detailed information, please see the guides for supported browsers and basic computer specifications. Our Online Courses can be accessed on a mobile or tablet device, although we strongly encourage you to have access to a desktop or laptop computer and reliable internet connection for certain course components. Former students have told us it is easiest to read discussion threads and complete written assignments on a laptop or desktop computer.
Registration is available on our website. Just follow these simple steps: Click the “Apply Now” button in the top right corner of your screen. Select “Online Courses.” Choose your course(s). You will be asked for basic contact information and your credit card payment. We require full payment at the time of registration and all tuition is billed in US dollars. Be sure to check with your bank or credit card company, as your financial institution may charge a foreign transaction fee.
Our classes are kept small, at no more than 30 students, to better facilitate and encourage personalized interaction with the instructor and fellow participants. Your classmates come from all over the globe and contribute their global perspectives and experience. Some are currently working within the arts while others are just beginning. All classmates share in their passion for the art world.
It is recommended that you begin your course promptly. If you do need to start the course a few days late, contact your instructor as soon as possible after the course has opened to discuss your options. Registration closes on the Friday after the course begins.
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