An Intensive 10-day Training Course
Agile Practices for Organizational Excellence and Sustainability
Mastery of Design Thinking, Creativity and Business Agility
Course Introduction
As the world changes at a dizzying pace, organizations must swiftly navigate and be highly adaptive by creatively manipulating these changes as an opportunity to transform and radically improve, rather than simply getting through. Strategizing, developing organizations and solving problems innovatively in an agile way is a key part of business agility. However, organization agility is not a straightforward achievement. Agile businesses also need an agile strategy including an agile approach to their market.
This Agile Practices for Organizational Excellence and Sustainability training course is designed to help organizations become more adaptive, creative and resilient. Delegates will explore and master the elements required to make any organization truly agile. This Oxford Management Centre 10-day training course is a two-part training course that focuses precisely on developing agile practices towards organizational excellence and sustainability.
The training course is split into two modules. Each module is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone training course; however, delegates will maximize their benefits by taking Module 1 and 2 back-to-back as a two-weeks training course.
Modules
This course is split in two modules:
Module 1: Agile Business Strategy and Organisational Development for Sustainable Growth
Module 2: Agile Creativity
Each module is structured and can be taken as a stand-alone training course; however, delegates will maximise their benefits by taking Module 1 and 2 back-to-back as a 2-week training course.
Objectives
At the end of this Agile Practices for Organizational Excellence and Sustainability training course, you will learn to:
- Assess organizational strategic contexts and their impacts on strategies and growth
- Apply contemporary organizational development strategies to enhance relevancy
- Create and implement an agile organization by developing agile teams and engaging key stakeholders
- Apply Design Thinking to creatively solve complex, cross-functional problems in teams
- Grasp the advantages of design thinking applications to develop the culture of innovative, user-centric problem-solving approaches
Training Methodology
The highly interactive and engaging 10-day course on Agile Practices for Organizational Excellence and Sustainability will utilize a variety of adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This will include highly interactive group and individual activities, targeted case studies, relevant practical exercises, and videos. This will be facilitated learning through direct input, discussion, and encouragement to test and critically appraise theories, models and concepts.
Organisational Impact
By attending this Oxford Management Centre training course and applying the principles involved, your organization will benefit from:
- Future-oriented, forward thinking and agile leaders
- Gaining more strategically OD focused personnel for organizational growth
- Creating pro-active strategies and tactical plans
- Creative and innovative employees with effective and efficient problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Having a high-performance organization with a high-trust culture of openness, integrity and certainty
- Stronger working relationships, greater collaboration and discretionary effort
Personal Impact
By attending this Agile Practices for Organizational Excellence and Sustainability training course and applying the principles involved, you will benefit by:
- Gain knowledge of strategic organizational development and skills desirable in today’s modern rapid environment
- Acquisition of new business and leadership skills, both strategic and tactical to increase the overall productivity of your team or department
- Enhanced business confidence and acumen for organizational and personal growth
- Improved creativity and innovation in your thought process
- Acceleration of your own personal and career development
- Enhanced focus on more important strategic and operational matters
Who Should Attend?
This highly interactive 10-day course on Agile Practices for Organizational Excellence and Sustainability is suitable to a wide range of strategy, business, and leadership professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Strategy and Business Directors
- Business Leaders
- Senior Managers involved in Business Development
- Managers in the Business and Strategy functions
- Personnel in the technical/engineering disciplines
Course Outline
Module 1: Agile Business Strategy and Organisational Development for Sustainable Growth
Day 1
Organisation Business Strategy for an Agile World
- Key strategy and models and concepts
- Defining agile strategy: Its roots in Kaizen
- The importance of tactical and operational planning
- Managing direct and rapid change
- Creating the ‘hazy’ vision in uncertain times
- Developing an agile strategy
Day 2
Agile Organisational Development (OD) Strategy
- Defining Organisational Development (OD)
- The importance of OD in organisational success
- Workforce planning: Ensuring capability
- Talent and succession planning: The lifeblood for success
- Creating the agile organisation
- OD strategy case study: Lessons learnt
Day 3
Building the Organisation Team Structure
- Understanding agile team dynamics
- Factors in creating agile teams
- Team roles: Profile assessment
- Operating with a virtual/remote team
- Team performance measures: Self-motivating teams
- Developing a team culture
Day 4
Tactical Operations: Quick, rapid decision making
- Responsive tactical reviews and SCRUM methods
- Conditions needed for daily briefings
- Conducting agile meetings
- Rapid decision-making tools and techniques
- Asking the right questions for multiple operational goals
- Ensuring actions are implemented
Day 5
Communicating the Agile Plan
- Lessons learnt from history: Agile implementation
- Principles of business communication
- Developing a communication plan
- Engaging key stakeholders and delivering your message
- Embedding agile into the organisation
- Summary work and next steps
Module 2: Agile Creativity
- Utilise the Power of Design Thinking and its Strategic Importance
- Apply the 5 Primary Stages of Design Thinking
- Understand Solution Focused and Systems Thinking Application
- Develop Agile Creativity and an Innovative Mindset in Yourself and Others
- The Psychology of Problem Solving and Harness the Power of Visualization
- Analyse the Human Centric Interpersonal Skills needed in Design Thinking
- Learn Powerful Questioning Techniques to Build Emphatic Understanding
- Solve Complicated, Multi-Discipline Workplace Problems with your Team
- Use Rapid Decision- Making Processes and Mitigate Decision Making Errors
- Lead Change and Agile Organisational Creative Thinking
Certificate
Oxford Management Centre Certificate will be provided to delegates who successfully completed the training course.
Accreditation
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