Course Introduction

This highly participative training course will help you to lead using agile principles to achieve organisational excellence. Organizational excellence is the achievement by an organization of consistent and superior performance - for example, outputs that exceed meeting objectives, needs, or expectations, as well as maintaining strong business relationships.

This Leadership Agility training course will provide you with the understanding and techniques to achieve the overall goal of Organizational Excellence. In this challenging and rapidly changing world, to gain organisational change requires exceptional Leadership agility.  The key topics on the course have been specifically developed to equip you with tomorrow’s leadership knowledge and expertise to gain sustainable Organisational Excellence.

Participants attending this Leadership Agility training course will develop the following competencies:

• Develop as an Agile Leader in the business
• Build skills and knowledge to implement and lead organisational excellence
• Effective communication to influence others
• Building strong business and internal relationships and connections
• Achieve organisational excellence mindset and culture

Objectives

This Leadership Agility training course aims to enable participants to achieve the following objectives:

• Agility to Lead rapidly in situations
• Techniques to develop strategic, operational and tactical thinking
• Skill to project confidence to handle challenging situations
• Understand the building relationships based on trust
• Flexibility to adapt to new situations
• Personal development in Leadership

Training Methodology

The Oxford Management Centre Leadership Agility training course will combine presentations with interactive practical exercises, supported by video materials, activities and case studies. Delegates will be encouraged to participate actively in relating the principles of Leadership to the particular needs of their workplace.

Who Should Attend?

This Oxford Management Centre training course is open to a number of professionals interested in how to develop leadership agility for organisational excellence and will predominately suit those involved in strategic, operational or tactical leadership in the organisation, or those involved in OD (Organisational Development) roles. This could include:

• Directors
• Senior Managers
• Managers

Course Outline

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

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