Leading with Agility and Resilience

Organizations now more than ever need to reinvent themselves in order to adapt to changing business conditions and take advantage of unheard-of market trends. The purpose of this course is to provide participants with a better understanding of the difficulties that organizations are currently facing, as well as how to embrace agility and resilience as crucial strategic competencies in this fast-changing ecosystem.

 

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

 

  • Recognize the significance of managing agile and resilient teams in challenging situations.
  • Examine your leadership skills for flexibility and resiliency.
  • Take the initiative and create preventative measures to survive environmental disruptions.
  • Develop convincing leadership techniques that promote resilience and agility.
  • Implement plans to create and improve flexible, resilient organizations.

 

Executives, directors, senior managers, division managers, team leaders, and any other professionals who wish to stay current with management and leadership trends should attend.

 

  • Defining organizational agility and resilience
  • The new norms: pace, disruptions and turbulence
  • Organizational comparison: agility and resiliency versus rigidity and fragility
  • The importance of adaptive capacity
  • ​The Adaptive Capacity Framework
  • The concept of resilience engineering

  • The Leadership self-assessment - Agility and Resiliency Profile TM
  • ​​Assessment analysis and action plan
  • Critical competencies to lead in a disruptive business environment
  • The implications of agility and resilience for leadership
  • Anticipating disruptions before the damage occurs
  • Organizational agility and resilience: a leadership decision

 

  • A workplace assessment – An Organizational Profile TM
  • ​​Assessment analysis and action plan
  • The culture connection
  • Skills associated with an agile and resilient work practice
  • Understanding the difference between change management and agility
  • Rethinking and redesigning the business

 

  • Establishing the leadership team
  • Putting the right communication system in place
  • ​​Establishing clarity
  • Reinforcing the message
  • The role of social networking
  • Aligning people, processes and technology
  • ​Hiring practices
  • ​Individual performance measures
  • Workplace policies
  • Skill development
  • Supportive technologies
  • Compensating resilience and agility
  • The entrepreneurial mindset and its importance in the workplace

 

  • Employee engagement and team empowerment
  • Promoting action and resourcefulness
  • Developing resilient and agile managers
  • The agility and resiliency scorecard
  • Indications of successful agility and resiliency mastery
  • Establishing performance measures
  • ​​Internal indicators
  • External indicators
  • Reporting agility and resilience

 

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