Agile Leadership & Advanced Facilitation

2 Day

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Description

Transform Your Leadership Style and Build High-Performing Teams

Effective leadership is more critical than ever in today’s fast-paced, complex world. Agile Leadership and Advanced Facilitation equips leaders with the tools, techniques, and mindset needed to foster dynamic, self-managed, and outcome-driven teams.

Participants gain actionable strategies through interactive sessions, real-world case studies, and group exercises to inspire their teams, remove barriers to success, and achieve measurable outcomes.

What You’ll Gain

• Advanced Facilitation Skills: Techniques to align teams with organizational goals and confidently facilitate challenging conversations.
• Leadership Tools: Practical frameworks like the Ownership Model, Maturity Model, and Focus Modes to lead with clarity and precision.
• Organizational Insights: Deep understanding of cultural dynamics, barriers to change, and strategies to drive progress.

Objectives

• Adopt Agile Leadership Principles: Understand the shift from traditional management to Agile leadership and apply techniques like servant leadership and mentoring.
• Cultivate Psychological Safety: Learn tools to build and sustain innovation-friendly environments.
• Facilitate Team Success: Use evidence-based leadership to align goals and foster continuous improvement.
• Influence Organizational Change: Guide teams and create a culture of ownership and empowerment.
• Enhance Facilitation Skills: Develop strategies to co-create solutions and facilitate meaningful collaboration.

Outline

Leaders Who Serve – The Foundation of Agile Leadership +

• Explain the characteristics of Agile Leadership vs. traditional management leaders.
• What is an Agile Culture
• 4 Pillars of Agile Leadership:
• Servant Leadership
• Situational Leadership
• Psychological Safety
• Mentoring
• Learning about Self-Managed Teams
• Empowerment circle
• How do you stimulate an Agile Culture?
• Understand the four mega-issues and four mega-outcomes of organizational culture.

Psychological Safety – The Deep Dive +

• 4 Stages:
• Inclusion Safety
• Learn Safety
• Contributor Safety
• Challenger Safety
• Measuring Psychological Safety
• Becoming a team cultural architect

Creating and Facilitating Team Outcomes +

• Evidence-Based Leadership
• Forming & Evaluating Hypotheses - running short, focused experiments to make progress toward desired outcomes
• The setting, Inspecting & Adapting Goals - how organizations seek and progress toward their goals in a complex world using empiricism
• Establishing & Aligning Goals
• Review the four steps to breaking down the barriers to change
• Discuss factors that cause dysfunction and hinder the mega-outcomes

Influencing Change – The Agile Leader Toolkit +

• The Agile Leaders Toolkit:
• Ownership Model
• Maturity Model
• Focus Modes
• Discuss Agile Leader Levers
• Dimensions of Leadership:
• Co-Creator
• Facilitator
• Innovator
• Culture Leader
• Dimensions of Leadership: Tools
• Five Point Goals
• The Culture Map
• Communication Styles
• Delegation Boards
• And much more

Who Should Attend

• Agile Coaches
• Scrum Masters
• Product Owners
• Project Managers
• Directors and Executives
• Organizational Change Agents
• Facilitators and Trainers
• Anyone aspiring to lead high-performing Agile teams

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