Leading with Agility and Resilience
Overview:
Introduction
Organizations now more than ever need to reinvent themselves in order to adapt to changing business conditions and take advantage of unheard-of market trends. The purpose of this course is to provide participants with a better understanding of the difficulties that organizations are currently facing, as well as how to embrace agility and resilience as crucial strategic competencies in this fast-changing ecosystem.
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Recognize the significance of managing agile and resilient teams in challenging situations.
- Examine your leadership skills for flexibility and resiliency.
- Take the initiative and create preventative measures to survive environmental disruptions.
- Develop convincing leadership techniques that promote resilience and agility.
- Implement plans to create and improve flexible, resilient organizations.
Targeted Audience
- Executives, directors, senior managers, division managers, team leaders, and any other professionals who wish to stay current with management and leadership trends should attend.
Course Outline
Unit 1: Understanding agility and resilience
- Defining organizational agility and resilience
- The new norms: pace, disruptions and turbulence
- Organizational comparison: agility and resiliency versus rigidity and fragility
- The importance of adaptive capacity
- The Adaptive Capacity Framework
- The concept of resilience engineering
Unit 2: Agility and resilience: A leadership pre-requisite
- The Leadership self-assessment - Agility and Resiliency Profile TM
- Assessment analysis and action plan
- Critical competencies to lead in a disruptive business environment
- The implications of agility and resilience for leadership
- Anticipating disruptions before the damage occurs
- Organizational agility and resilience: a leadership decision
Unit 3: Preparing for an agile and resilient workplace
- A workplace assessment – An Organizational Profile TM
- Assessment analysis and action plan
- The culture connection
- Skills associated with an agile and resilient work practice
- Understanding the difference between change management and agility
- Rethinking and redesigning the business
Unit 4: Essential strategies for developing agile and resilient organizations
- Establishing the leadership team
- Putting the right communication system in place
- Establishing clarity
- Reinforcing the message
- The role of social networking
- Aligning people, processes and technology
- Hiring practices
- Individual performance measures
- Workplace policies
- Skill development
- Supportive technologies
- Compensating resilience and agility
- The entrepreneurial mindset and its importance in the workplace
Unit 5: From strategy to implementation
- Employee engagement and team empowerment
- Promoting action and resourcefulness
- Developing resilient and agile managers
- The agility and resiliency scorecard
- Indications of successful agility and resiliency mastery
- Establishing performance measures
- Internal indicators
- External indicators
- Reporting agility and resilience