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