Agile Leader & Creativity

Course Outline

Module 1: Leadership Agility

DAY 1

Becoming an Agile Leader

• Changing face of Leadership in the modern world
• What is Agile? AGILE principles and Manifesto
• Developing an Agile mindset, behaviours and characteristics
• Understanding Organisational Agility
• Organisational Models in Business
• Mastering Change

DAY 2

Strategic, Operational and Tactical Factors

• Defining Strategy, Operational and Tactical leadership
• Strategy models and principles
• Organisational Data collection and planning
• Challenging ‘normal’: the Alternative Box
• Setting the Behaviours and Values needed in the organisation
• Creating the Vision V Mantra: ensuring buy-in from all

DAY 3

Organisational Development and Performance

• The importance of Organisational Development and Strategy
• Identifying your Talent for future growth: models and principles
• Competency Frameworks and Behaviours
• Utilizing Performance Management Systems
• Development Options to increase organisational excellence
• Succession Planning and OCR techniques

DAY 4

Building Strong Strategic Relationships

• Why Building relationships matters in business
• Strategic and Customer Relationship Management
• Key Stakeholder Planning
• Power and Influence mapping
• Networking: techniques to improve relations
• Using Data analysis to inform the business 

DAY 5

Achieving the Organisational Excellence Culture

• What is Culture?
• Creating a culture of Organisational Excellence
• Gaining support from others
• Review of Operational Excellence models and comparison
• Implement and embed Organizational Excellence in business
• Summary and Review

Module 2: Agile Creativity

DAY 6

Design Thinking and its Importance in Workplace Solutions

• Understanding Design Thinking and its Strategic Implications
• The 5 Primary Stages of Design Thinking
• The Key 10 Principles of Good Design
• Traditional Linear Problem-solving Techniques
• The Solution Focused Approached to Problem Solving
• Bigger Picture Consequences: Systems Thinking and Application

DAY 7

Developing Agile Creativity and An Innovative Mind

• Defining a Problem
• How your brain solves problems?
• Creative Problem-solving Techniques
• The Power of Visualization: Dreaming the Dream
• Developing an Innovative and Creative Mindset
• Group Thinking Strategies and Control
• Change and Agile Organizational Thinking
  

DAY 8

Human Centric Behavioural Skills for Agile Creative Design Thinking

• Human Centric Interpersonal Skills Needed in Design Thinking
• Powerful Questioning Techniques to Build Empathetic Understanding
• Structuring Empathetic Fact-finding Interviews
• Creating Powerful Problem Statements to Define the Problem
• Structured Brainstorming Solutions using SCAMPER

DAY 9

Practical Applications of Design Thinking and Creative Innovations

• Empathize
• Define
• Ideate
• Prototype
• Test

DAY 10

Decision Making and Organizational Implementation

• Practical vs. Ideal Solution: Factors and Considerations
• Using Rapid Decision-making Process
• Mitigating Decision-making Errors
• Changing Mindsets to Adopt Design Thinking Strategies
• Communicating the Decision – Gaining buy-in
• Next Steps