Session 1:  Introduction to Agile People Principles:The foundation of Agile Peoples’ mindset is about the principles, values, methods, and tools that we need to start using to release competence and innovation – and what we stop doing. Your own challenges are discussed. Certification assignment and presentations.

Session 2: Psychological safety: The importance of an approach that is pervaded by security and confidence to increase profitability and innovation – to increase creativity through a culture where it is ok to fail and try again. We play “The Psychological Safety Game” to facilitate dialogue about difficult topics.

Session 3:  Emerging Strategies, Structures and Goals: Emerging strategies instead of long-term planning, new ways of working with strategy, budgets, goals, performance processes and rewards. Using value stream mapping to optimize flows in a system instead of working with resource optimization and sub-optimization of departments. WoWs to be used: Beyond Budgeting, OKRs, Impact Mapping, VSM, etc.

Session 4: Growing an Agile Culture: Creating conditions for a fantastic culture where people can perform at their optimal level with a sense of being supported and secure. The gap between structures and culture/values. Structure – Culture Misfit Role Play. The importance of country culture for an Agile transformation.

Session 5: Creating Conditions for Change: What type of people are we looking for? And why do growth and fixed mindset matter? We go through some important topics for the change journey and how HR and managers need to change their role to support the organizational learning journey.

Workshop program Session 6-10: Agile People Leadership

Session 6: The Why and What of Leading with Agility: In this session we explore the changing environment & dynamics that call for a different approach to leading and following.  We look into the misalignment between what managers think drives their people, and what people – knowledge workers specifically – expect from the people managing and leading them. Finally we explore our own personal understanding and expectations.. what are some of the attitudes, expectations and concrete behaviours we expect to see from people who lead with agility.

Session 7: Leadership Behaviours that enable Agility: When you wish to make a radical change or transformation, understanding three things enables you to make the shift.  Where are we coming from, where are we now, and where are we heading toward.  In this session, we explore the evolution of leadership theories and which leadership styles and approaches they have given birth to.  We determine what is still relevant.. and what needs to change.  A big part of that shift comes from understanding the nature of Power & Influence, and how the ways in which we gain power might be changing. Finally we look into specific qualities & competencies we can cultivate and develop to increase our own personal agility.

Session 8: Knowing & Connecting with Yourself: If we cannot understand and embrace ourselves, we have little hope for fully understanding and accepting others. Understanding why we react to things in certain ways gives us the insights and ability to better choose our responses and change how we show up in our interactions. Leading others starts with developing our own self-leadership.  In this module we explore ways to become more aware of our own experience. We dive into heuristics – cognitive biases – to understand how they work; how we can become more aware of them and most importantly.. how we can counter them. Finally we explore specific leadership mind-traps, and how we can unlock those mind-traps to show up in better ways as leaders.

Session 9: Developing & Leading Yourself: Having gotten some insights into how we can know and connect with ourselves to choose how we respond to situations and show up in our interactions with others, its now time to put that into practise. We familiarise ourselves with the Clear Leadership model developed by Gervase Bushe, and how to develop the 4 selves of the Leader.. the Aware Self, the Descriptive Self, the Curious Self, and the Appreciative Self.  We explore several different contexts where we can put these into practise… to better check-in with people; give and receive effective feedback, step into coaching leadership and defusing conflicts through creating inter-personal clarity.

Session 10: Skillful Communication: Communicating effectively; relating to others, creating and maintaining healthy interactions, having productive conversations and influencing people towards a common objective requires practise and an understanding of the dynamics of communication.  In this session, we work on the dynamics of effective communication through the lenses of several mental models; the dynamics of productive conversations, and the power of effective storytelling to move people to action. We explore 3 types of stories we can learn to identify, and some narrative patterns that help you tell compelling stories as a leader.

Conclusion and next steps: Retrospective (ALL) and KUDOs

Summarize and following up on our own challenges and the next step.