Active Agile Leadership Skills

Avoid the growth trap

When growing rapidly, building competence at a faster pace than your headcount is critical to building a high trust culture.  A key ingredient is Leaders as Trainers.

Lead through others

Expect to lead people who have more detailed knowledge than you, who are strong headed in an environment which rapidly changes.

Fast decision cycles with a sense of urgency 

Fast decision cycles are essential to stay ahead of the curve,

A leader should be skilled to lead in multiple scenarios

This includes leading change, building the environment/system that delivers results, leader as a coach and leading by example through self-leadership.

Skills modules

Active Agile Leader Certification

To get the Active Agile Leader certification through this program, three conditions need to be fulfilled:

• You take the course with our Certified Trainers (we care deeply about having truly awesome trainers and their commitment to our mindset).
• You validate your knowledge of the skills (you take a test)
• You make things happen – you have practiced and improved something in your company (this is validated by the trainer).

• Leading change
• Building the environment/system that delivers results
• Coaching leadership
• Self-leadership

• Recognizing a high performance team
• A leader’s role in creating the conditions where high performance teams come about
• How to act as leader through the different phases of a team’s journey

• How to facilitate a group of strong headed people to explore relevant options and to make decisions which they hold each other accountable for

• Resource vs Flow optimization
• Lean & Agile principles
• A3 problem solving
• How to improve flow
• Resolving bottlenecks
• Challenge: Improve flow through your unit

• How to train effectively
• Challenge: Train peers on a topic of your own

• How to keep up the decision pace during high uncertainty
• Avoiding the two traps: waiting for perfect information (too slow) or relying on gut-based decision.
• How our brain makes decisions
• The influences of biases
• Techniques to improve decision making in different scenarios
• Finding hidden opportunities

• Keys to effective communication
• Choice of channels
• Giving direction (in an organisation)
• How-to give and receive feedback
• Story telling

A group of 5 to 10 people follow the program as one unit. The intent is that the team members can continue and peer-coach each other after the program.

The group self-selects and commits to, driving changes (improvements) during the program.

Members commit to reserving one day every 2 week. (A total of 5 days over 10 weeks).

Minimum attendance is 4 out of 5 sessions.

A group of 5 to 10 people follow the program as one unit. The intent is that the team members can continue and peer-coach each other after the program.
The group self-selects and commits to driving changes (improvements) during the program.

Members commit to reserving half a day every week for nine weeks.  (A total of 9 half days over 10 weeks) .

Minimum attendance is 7 out of 9 sessions.

Leaders at all levels. This course aims to build everyday essential skills to lead free thinking people.

Basic Agile knowledge similar to CSM, Kanban or Leading SAFe.

What is the feedback data from participants who has finished the program? Here’s a sample from three different trainers.

Full report here.

Testimonials from participants can be found here.