In the fast paced ever changing VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) world, we explore the implications of the future of work on HR, line managers and leaders. In this highly interactive workshop, we introduce the mindset of Agile and show how individuals can make a meaningful impact by adopting an Agile mindset and approach.
Regardless if you are a leader, an agile coach, a line manager or an HR professional, you need to understand how the strategy , structure, processes and culture need to change when working in a business that wants to increase adaptability to external changes. How do performance management, recruitment, learning and development, compensation and benefits and the way we perform employee engagement surveys change? What are the specific skills that we need to use to run an agile transformation from a people perspective?
The Agile HR workshop gives a holistic understanding of agile HR and will cover the individual, team and orginisational perceptives.
Complete the Agile HR workshop combined with the Agile People Fundamentals workshop to receive a ICAgile certification for ICP-AHR.
Leadership is changing. The traditional top-down command and control management style is no longer successful. The new and complex reality requires a paradigm shift in leaders’ mindset and a new understanding of what constitutes effective leadership.
The Agile Leadership workshop focuses on developing managers who want to be adaptive and agile in their leadership styles. Learning how to create conditions for an environment to allow business agility and people inside the business to thrive. Understanding different types of leadership styles and the impact they have on motivating behaviors to increase learning, innovation and collaboration.
The Agile Fundamentals workshop gives you tools, principles and knowledge on how you can work to increase business agility. From building your self-leadership to how you can lead others at different levels and finally how to create structures and a culture which are in harmony and balance to achieve a common vision.
Complete the Agile People Fundamentals workshop combined with the Agile People Leadership to receive an ICAgile certification for ICP_LEA.
Agile HR
- Session 1 - How HR's role is changing when we need to increase Business Agility.
- Session 2 - How HR can use Agile tools and practices. How can you design people processes using the agile ways of working.
- Session 3 - Goals, Performance Management, Compensation and Benefits. Look at current performance management practices and identify ways of bringing agile thinking to enhance performance, accountability and growth.
- Session 4 - Talent Acquisition and onboarding. Find and acquire the "right" people to support strategic growth. Taking values, culture, diversity and collaboration into the hiring decision.
- Session 5 - Learning & Development and Employee Engagement. Support a learning mindset in a team by focus on the development of new skills and capabilities. Explore different motivational tools to be applied in a context
- Combine the 5 session Agile HR workshop with the 5 session Agile Fundamental training to receive an ICAgile certification.
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The Agile People Fundamentals workshop covers:
Session 1 -Introduction to Agile People and important principles.
Session 2 -Psychological Safety as a foundation for a learning organisation.
Session 3 - Emerging strategies, structures and goals. Session 4 - Building conditions for an agile culture.
Session 5 - Creting conditions for change. - All the Agile workshops is delivered online using Zoom or face to face. You have access to the Agile People Learning Management System to do the homework and listen to the video at your convenience.
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Agile Leadership
- Session 1 - The Why and What of leading with agility.
- Session 2 - Behaviors that enable agility. We explore the evolution of leadership theories and styles to determine what is still relevant and what needs to change. A part of the shift is understanding the balance between power and influence and how the way in which we gain power might be changing.
- Session 3 - Knowing and Connecting with yourself. We explore ways to map and become more aware of our own experiences. We dive into cognitive biases, to understand how they work, influence our thinking and how we can counter them. We look at specific mind-traps and how we can unlock these to show-up in better ways as leaders.
- Session 4 - Developing and Leading others. We familiarise ourselves with the Clear Leadership model by Gervase Bushe. How can you develop the 4 selves of a leader and explore several contexts where we can put this in practice.
- Session 5 - Skillful 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 and influence others.
- Combine the 5 session Agile Leadership workshop with the 5 session Agile Fundamental workshop to receive an ICAgile certification.
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The Agile People Fundamentals workshop covers:
Session 1 - Introduction to Agile People and important principles.
Session 2 - Psychological Safety and a foundation for a learning organisation.
Session 3 - Emerging strategies, structures and goals.
Session 4 - Building conditions for an agile culture.
Session 5 - Creating Conditions for change.
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Get certified as an ICAgile Professional – Agile HR (ICP- AHR) or Agile Leader (ICP_LEA)
Learning Outcomes
Agile People Fundamentals
- This course gives you tools, principles and knowledge on how you can work to increase agility in your business.
- Building self-leadership and how to lead others at different levels and finally how to create structures and culture which are in harmony and balance to achieve a common vision.
- You will learn new principles and agile working methods to identify and correct system errors in your own business.
- Assess the current organisational structure and design a new structure that enables business agility, mazimises communication and collaboration within and among teams and enable the flow of value.
- Goal setting and performance management in a new way: Appraise current performance management practices and identify ways of bringing Agile thinking to enhance performance, accountability and growth.
- Salaries and benefits for an agile organisation: Describe and contrast traditional incentive structures with Agile-friendly structures, discuss the pros and cons of each approach and explain how they could apply them to their own environment.
- Agile role modeling: Develop an organisational action plan for role modelling an agile mindset and to build new skills that will enable cross-functional teams.
- Employee engagement in an agile manner: Recommend different motivational tools to be applied in a context and describe how the traditional employee engagement survey is changing.
- Talent acquisition and the candidate experience: Design a sourcing strategy that can be used to find and acquire the “right” people to support the strategic growth of the organisation taking values, culture, diversity and collaboration into the hiring decision.
- Agile learning: Suggest ways to enable and support a learning mindset in a team, supporting the shift from a focus on deficiencies to a focus on development of new skills and capabilities.
- Onboarding practices for agile companies: Design an onboarding experience that enables new employees to become a part of the organisation rapidly and smoothly.
- Why the agile mindset is HRs responsibility: Design the talent/people elements needed to help support an Agile transition in an organisation and explain how different contexts can influence the approach to be taken.
- The needed changes in the HR core function: Relate how the need for business agility affects the HR function and organisation and how it impacts HR team members’ roles and behaviours.
- Practical tools, templates and exercises for HR and managers: How an HR department can work with agile tools and methods, for example with Kanban, Sprints, Scrum and Retrospectives.
Agile Leadership
- Why Agility in leadership is needed: An understanding of why traditional approaches to management and leadership don’t always meet the needs of our transformations. In particular, leader will self-assess to determine how they might need to change their own behavior and attitudes to properly serve the needs of 21st century organisations.
- Leadership styles that increases agility: Learn different types of leadership styles and the impact they have on motivating behaviors to increase learning, innovation and collaboration.
- Personal agility: How to develop yourself as a leader through self-assessment, self-management and mindfulness.
- Relationship agility: Models for emotional intelligence in the context of agile organisations. Develop an awareness to the different systems found within organisations, the often hidden dependencies between them and how conflict can arise when we have incongruent agendas.
- Exercise agility in key conversations: How to practice inquiry and advocacy skills, including framing invitations rather than demands and asking clarifying, open, deepening and provocative questions. Learn to enable high-quality conversations as a leader as opposed to always participating in them.
- Why transformation is needed for agility: Understand how established businesses need to undergo a transformation in order to develop agile capabilities.
Benefits of Agile Workshops
- Confidently discuss Agile values, concepts and practices with leaders and teams.
- Understand why organisations are ‘going Agile’ and the implications for HR and leaders.
- Gain practical tools and methods to start applying Agile HR to your own work.
- Discover how to build a great employee experience using Agile HR tools and practices.
- Develop adaptive and agile managers that understand themselves and others.
- Understand how to create conditions for an environment that will allow the business agility and teams to thrive.
- Create a psychological safe culture where learning is creativity and innovation is emphasised.
- Identify the gap between structures and culture and how can leaders close the gap to build more aligned system.
The next workshop starts in August 2021.
